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To absolutely no one's surprise, Nina and Kaz send each other letters after the whole Ice Court fiasco. The letters are sent between Fjerda and Ketterdam via various extremely complicated routes. Two happened to fall into the hands of an archivist a hundred or so years later. These are those letters.
Ketterdam Archive Library. Letters. File 24.5.1.
Reverse:
Mila, Princess of Fjerda
The Royal Apartments
The Ice Court
If unsent, please return to Wylan van Eck, Geldstraat, Ketterdam
There is a broken seal of black wax on the corner edge, design is hard to make out except for a set of feathers near the right side.
Inverse:
My dearly detested Zenik,
Can I still call you that or do I have to list every single one of your Ghezen forsaken titles? Because that would constitute a large inexcusable waste of paper and time dear, so forgive me for deciding not to - orders to write and people to deal with take precedence over corpsewitches with over blown egos.
In your last letter you mentioned your contacts within your home country's government. While they could well be useful it does appear that my own contacts are somewhat more reliable, so I won't be needing yours. However, I could use your partner's skills at some point in the close future, I'd advise them to talk to the captain.
In answer to your irrelevant questions, I am still alive, still taking on various jobs and still making more than enough dosh. On your concern that I'm not eating, I don't need long distance annoyances when I have some much closer to home.
Please hesitate to reply,
K. B.
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Ketterdam Archive Library. Letters. File 24.5.2
Reverse:
Mr Jesper Fahey-van Eck
Geldstraat
Ketterdam
If unsent, please return to Princess Mila
There is evidence of a seal on corner edge, since lost.
Inverse:
On the Saints Brekker,
Every time I open a letter from you I actually get excited, your god knows why, and then you go and ruin it by being a grumpy skiv. I don't know why I'm surprised, and yet I always am.
For once I agree with you on the titles front, please never talk sense again, it scares me. I'm half of the mind to come straight to Ketterdam and check for myself that you don't have a fever.
Leave Ilya out of whatever it is you're doing please. Some of us have real jobs, rather than robbing poor souls out of their life savings. You can call me a hypocrite, and you would be right.
On the topic of your 'contacts', I'll warn you as a friend (yes Kaz a friend you have those you miserable git) to stop sending spiders into diplomatic meetings before you manage to cause an incident between Kerch and Ravka. I can only protect you so many times. Stop it.
So Jes and Wy are well then, and you see them? You better or else I'll get Inej to pick me up next time she's here and take me back so I can get an army of the dead to march you over to the Geldstraat for dinner. You better be eating, Brekker, so may the Saints help me.
Although you literally never ask, I'm still going to tell you about my life. Ilya decided that the palace needs a bit of tiding before Jul so everyone's been working very hard, yes even me - you'd think that being Princess means that I'd get out of it but no, the fucking Fjerdans and their fucking gender roles. Is it odd that it makes me miss Kerch? It's a shithole but at least everyone gets to have the same few rights and obligations. Fucking Saints above.
When you see Jes and Wy (which you will so help me) say hello.
Safe stabbings,
Zenik
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Letters to be offered to both Brekker Foundation and Fjerdan Royal Archives with hopes to reunite with other letters in same series.