Deer Natalia,
How are yoo doing? We are doing wel.
We hav yoo to thank for reeching Lihanera safely.
But we ran into truble with pirates and succubi!
Yoo can ask this girl for details.
She is Limly.
I swear I wil return for her, so pleese look after her
until then.
I look forward to seeing yoo agen.
-Naoki Okawa
After the road crossed a mountain pass, Limly looked back to
find Lihanera and the ocean had become so distant and small.
The rattling of the wheels and clip-clop of the horse’s
hoofs sounded out a pleasant rhythm. The old man hired to give her a ride
lazily held the reins at the front of the carriage, but Limly looked back down
at the letter in her hands.
She couldn’t read it since it didn’t use the elf writing
system, but she had stared at the handwriting countless times on the way here.
(The Hero wrote this letter for me.)
Tianne had offered to write it for him, but he had refused
and insisted on doing it himself.
The awkward handwriting was anything but good, but that
wasn’t what mattered.
A mischievous mountain wind blew through and threatened to
snatch the precious letter from her grasp, so she held it tight and breathed a
sigh of relief at that close call.
But she recognized that wind. It was the same wind she had
felt in her home village in the mountains.
The chirping birds and the scent of the trees made this
mountain ridge so calming for her.
She liked it all.
She filled her lungs with the fresh air and studied the
unreadable letter once more.
She decided to ask this Natalia person to teach her how to
read it.
And no matter how many times she looked at the Hero’s
letter, she reached the same conclusion.
“Hee hee. He has such bad handwriting!”
Limly had found one more thing she liked.
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