Reply from Lady Amelia
My dearest suitor, Antonius.
Your letter rose my spirits high in anotherwise dreary day. The stores for the winter were lower than expected and rot got into the cabbage. So I've had to negotiate with a friendly merchant who's attentions were otherwise unwanted. I do not wish to burden you with this, but such was my day. The weather is warming and there was sun this afternoon as we walked through the winter gardens, so that - at least, was pleasant.
I greatly enjoyed your visit, and hope you can come again to spend a day or two in my home. Admittedly I suspected my mother's hand in your visit. You have such an honest countenance, I could not believe you to be any more than an honest visitor who's curiosity was picked. My mother means well, having tried to keep me out of the legion as best she could. I served my four years and now pay scuttage lest my mother try to pay my bills. Over the years she's managed to enlarge my land holdings through deals and negotiations that I know nothing of. While I do defend my mother, she is not well liked by local land owners because she is so brash and open about every aspect of her life. I respect her freedom, but suspect it is this opinon of others that keeps her so far from me.
If you love my mother than I shall make no demands on your heart, although I should warn you that she is truely impossible in all ways. She dislikes being caged in any fashion. I have had three fathers. The first, the one she truely loved and spawned me, died in the legion. The second and third were both younger than her and either left or died in mysterious circumstances. I do not blame my mother, but I know here adventures are dangerous - they must be for she has acquired a lot of money over the years and lost a lot of friends. I would hate to see you died on one of my mother's adventures.
If you do not love me, how can you court me? At my mother's insistence, I shall allow it of you but I do not see the honesty in the act.
Your letter of your activities was far more pleasant than the contractual obediance you gave my mother's wishes. I would hear more of your life as a knight and legionnaire. Do you regularly recieve such visions from your diety? How marvelous. Did this evil knight ever return your letter?
Fear not for me, for my servants are friends of my mother - trained in the ways best to protect me from all they can. The only thing I am vulerable to is my own folly.
Curiously yours,
The Lady Ameila.
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