Mon, 30 Jun 1997
Min Feill Sha`naigh,
It has been a long two days without you. I have tried to enjoy some time in Camelot's firehall, but it gives me little joy without your company. The city is divided (due to the move) and very quiet as of late. I spend more time here in the Keep than anywhere else, but of course it is very still here as well. There have been a few visitors and they are kind enough but I must work very hard not to show my disappointment, for everytime the great doors to the Keep are opened, I pray it will be you who strides through them.
I joined the latest quest and did something terrible. I seem to be slipping much these days, though this transgression is not at all the same nature of the last. I am very distraught and long to see you, to hold you, to tell you what I have done. You may even think my concern is unwarranted but I tell you honestly, I have lost sleep over it. I know you are not my father confessor, but I feel the need to share everything with you, good or ill. I hope I do not burden you overmuch.
Oh, and Simon... the poor lad! He is feeling the pressure of the impending trial perhaps, I cannot know, but he came to the Keep on Friday eve. He suddenly became very angry with me, for no reason I can determine, and then he turned on his guard Herman who quickly found himself sprawled on the floor of our great hall, unconscious.
Seeing what his magic had done, Simon then ran out of the Keep and went to the Tower of Camelot. I so feared he would throw himself off it ere I could catch him. Something very strange happened there at the Tower. A kind of light left Simon and he began to speak to it. Oh, I can think on it no longer. You need speak with him at the earliest opportunity. Mayhap you will understand it. I certainly do not. Simon is fine for the moment, though he no doubt has a new guard. I suspect that Captain Blackthorn has had to relieve Herman of his duties for a while.
I know the pack needs you, my love, and I know too that you spend no more time away from the Keep than is absolutely necessary but we... I need you with me as well.
I end this missive on a better note by explaining the greeting at the beginning of it. You may already have recognized it for in your long life I am sure there is little you have not learned, including innumerable languages. But, in thinking of you so much these last two days, I recalled something of my native tongue, words from the Emerald Isle from which my line hails. I had to think on it for some time but these words to you are most sincere and I wanted to be sure my memory was correct.
My greeting to you "Min Feill Sha`naigh" says simply "My Beloved Wolf" and so these words by messenger carry my heart to you in all sincerity. I truly cannot wait to look into your forest emerald eyes again. Til then, my love, fare well and bring yourself safely home to me.
All my love,
Wenndolyne
(("Min Feill Sha`naigh" is a few gaelic words I twisted and put together for this phrase. My pronunciation would be something like "main fayel shah-nye".))
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