Estrid Frealaf (northerlywings) wrote in lightning_war, @ 2008-09-30 07:38:00 |
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Letter from Estrid Farryll to Dracaena Malfoy, dated 15 September 1942, delivered by raven
Warded, sealed, and carried by a faerie raven which will defend itself, in reply to Dracaena's two letters to Lord Farryll
To Lady Malfoy, mistress of the groves and hives of Avalon, Estrid Farryll, daughter of the raven and sister of the winds of the north sends greetings with reverence and affection.
I have returned home to my lands, as you realise it is perhaps none too soon. We thank you humbly for your intelligence of yesterday. We do not know yet if we would treat with the iron folk, for although I have lived among them I do not know them and perhaps never shall. But it may be that under these clouds it is time for the Farrylls at long last to learn them.
We were not struck by our enemy last night as you feared, but his hand draws near enough to almost be seen and yet we cannot see it clearly. This alone we know: that we must stand and face him at last. We thank you greatly for your allies' help in securing our borders without the mists, our debt is great. But within them we cannot be aided by any ally. To our own strengths we must turn, as our enemy turns our own lost arts against us.
Afterwards, should it be that we are able, we would treat with you ere long, and do you honour as our ally and friend, and, might it be, High Queen in these times.
Sealed this fifteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-second year of the common era, and writ by mine own hand:
Estrid Farryll