Will | Huan
Darling, I'm happy to report that we seem to be having an uncommonly easy time of it. Our supplies went missing in the night which came as an unpleasant shock this morning, but aside from the incident with the books, we've been largely unmolested. I'm glad to hear that you've both been eating well, and keeping one another good company. I'm sorry to have left you both, but I'm not sorry that you've been given this opportunity to come to know one another without my interference.
I suppose Mr. Minervois, my tailor, will be very please if I must get Temeraire fitted for robes, though I hope the university will not mind so much if we forgo the expense. I've never been to University myself, and, in fact, I left home a little too early to benefit much from a formal education as my brothers did, so I cannot say that I'll be well equipped to prepare him. Do you have universities in your own world, or places of formal study, or was it an honour that was undertaken by your clan leaders?
I cannot say for certain what powers the sword might possess, as I've not yet had the opportunity to test it, but I feel stronger, I think, when I hold it. Does that seem silly? Perhaps it is all in my mind. I've very little experinece in the ways of magical swords, your own being the only one I've ever had much contact with, and so I cannot say for sure if this is magic I'm feeling or perhaps some particular trick of craftsmanship. I know, for instance, I feel more comfortable with the sword Temeraire gifted than any other, and it is not magic that makes it a formidable weapon.
I've long grown accustomed to spending months, and sometimes years, away from my loved ones and past loves, and so I would have thought that the experience might not be so trying, but it has been nearly a week since I last saw your face or heard your voice, and I wish now that I had done more to take advantage of the moment. I sleep better with you by my side, and I've grown rather too used to being able to call on you whenever I wish to see you. I miss you more every day, and I'll not stop looking until I can find a way back to you.