Whatever ether medium it was which served to darken the page in the manner of ink, it now began to stroll across the page before Jorsie and Zarik...
"Z,
Your own offer to facilitate a meeting in some distant port is so perfectly convenient as to bring a sense of warning to my heart. Things are rarely this easily accomplished.
I realize this may set your eyes to rolling, and if in the future I should find you to be an entirely trustworthy fellow, I will acknowledge the insult with a genuine apology.
But it will be an apology tempered by my belief that any reasonable man should expect precautions to be taken. So you will not find me feeling so stricken as to drop to my knees and beg your forgiveness.
I have nothing but your word to take regarding the situation at your end of this correspondence.
So I now hope to receive a reciprocal gesture on your part.
We do, of course, have an agent or two in Quacia.
It is through the efforts of such a one that this travel will be accomplished.
I ask that tomorrow evening, at the break that your Harbormaster's office closes, my man Jorsie be allowed to conduct a conversation with someone there.
You may rest assured that a number of code words could be offered that will allow warnings of all manner of potential treachery.
Again, a future apology awaits if my precautions are being taken to an insulting extreme.
You may let Ambassador Jorsie know if you'd like to travel directly to Etzos, which would be my choice.
Even this will take more than a single stage of travel.
But if you prefer some other convenient port, accommodations could be made.
Your decision will affect some aspects of the conversation that Jorsie will have with the man in your Harbormaster's office.
With hope to be proven overly cautious,
Lord Karnos Vuda,
Chief Advisor to High Marshall Brogen Pahrn of Etzos"
"Z,
Your own offer to facilitate a meeting in some distant port is so perfectly convenient as to bring a sense of warning to my heart. Things are rarely this easily accomplished.
I realize this may set your eyes to rolling, and if in the future I should find you to be an entirely trustworthy fellow, I will acknowledge the insult with a genuine apology.
But it will be an apology tempered by my belief that any reasonable man should expect precautions to be taken. So you will not find me feeling so stricken as to drop to my knees and beg your forgiveness.
I have nothing but your word to take regarding the situation at your end of this correspondence.
So I now hope to receive a reciprocal gesture on your part.
We do, of course, have an agent or two in Quacia.
It is through the efforts of such a one that this travel will be accomplished.
I ask that tomorrow evening, at the break that your Harbormaster's office closes, my man Jorsie be allowed to conduct a conversation with someone there.
You may rest assured that a number of code words could be offered that will allow warnings of all manner of potential treachery.
Again, a future apology awaits if my precautions are being taken to an insulting extreme.
You may let Ambassador Jorsie know if you'd like to travel directly to Etzos, which would be my choice.
Even this will take more than a single stage of travel.
But if you prefer some other convenient port, accommodations could be made.
Your decision will affect some aspects of the conversation that Jorsie will have with the man in your Harbormaster's office.
With hope to be proven overly cautious,
Lord Karnos Vuda,
Chief Advisor to High Marshall Brogen Pahrn of Etzos"