Now he’s sure that she’s reading his letters. Valdis, three weeks before Midsummer Dear Queen Raisse, Even though we have received our money and our job is done now, I wanted to write one last letter because some things have happened since we met and I wanted to tell the…

They seem to have done their work– now for Geref Yaktub. Valdis, between the festival of Timoine and Midsummer Today was the day the quack Faran was caught! And we have learned a lot more as well, but I was forced to admit to Selle, Maile and Jerna, and also…

They’re making progress! Arin is still writing about everything that happens: he has no way of knowing what is relevant, so he assumes –sensibly– that anything may be relevant. Valdis, one day after the previous letter, after the festival of Timoine (but midsummer is still a long way away) This…

Now he notices who is reading his reports… Valdis, two days after my first, after the festival of Timoine I never realized… Now I know why Master Ervan was grinning. But whatever I am writing down here will be read by the Queen! And I don’t know how to write…

He may not be a great writer, but he does get everything into the story, and he has a splendid storytelling voice. Valdis, just after the festival of Timoine So, there we were — in the Tunned Piglets, asking every master butcher who came in whether he’d got some work…