[A richly perfumed enveloped arrives back to its sender's hands, carried by some nondescript servant of some kind.]
Nisah 25th, IY 7788Magistrate and Water-Bearer al-Marain
I must confess: I don't know whether or not you mean to mock me cruelly by this letter of yours. If so, then may Urazzir smite you where you stand and reduce you to a puddle of goo and battered bones!!!
I have never heard of such miracles or rituals, not even in the High Temple of Baz'eel, nor in the stories of the heroes of legend. Are you a braggart in over your head? The Wheel does not churn needlessly nor without reason—you of all ought know this— the sacrifice I have suffered much to my indignation was willed by design. Do YOU mean to blaspheme this, as a sanctioned priest?!
Nevertheless, if you are earnest, and you do not jab at me mercilessly for your amusement. If this task is
possible, and not a tinge of it
corrupted, then my answer is:
yes... what in the bloody hells did you think I'd say? Of course I want the full recovery of my person.
- Grand Strategist, Poet-Extraordinaire, Swashbuckling Bravo, Known Philanthropist, Baz'eeli Debonair, News Mogul, Tourism Magnate, Purple League Patriot, Citizen of Ephia's Well,
The Most Esteemed Hamdan al-Hamdan