[DO NOT THROW THIS AWAY! To Bruno: From Isabella]

[Empress of Neon]

Dear Bruno,

For better or worse you're now the ambassador to Banafsi. I'm going to be the optmist for a change and hope you recognize the weight of the responsibility that's been placed on your shoulders.

No doubt you've been informed about the history and relationship of the maritime city-states. A man who's clan made their entire livelihood off the canals, no doubt understands, just how important maintaining good relations with these settlements will be for Ephia's Well. While we may not yet have an ambassador to Qadira, nothing's stopping you and me from sitting for a chat to discuss a cohesive foreign policy in respects to these settlements, as none have appear to have been given by the government in Ephia's Well.

You're invited for drink and discussions regarding such as Frostport. Or Kha'esh, if the journey is too strenuous.

I know you think little of me (and trust me, after reading your jape at my Oathseeker Karl's missing muse, the feeling's mutual), but understand this. These foreign powers will be extremely consequential to the Well's future and I take matters of diplomacy with them even more seriously than the internal circus that was politics back in the Citadel. We owe it to the Well to put aside any differences and ensure we are working to its interests in the future.

Show me the mustache isn't just for show and that you are indeed a man.

~ Isabella Fitzgerald

P.S You should probably seek special lodging in Banafsi as our ambassador. You can't exactly represent Ephia's Well regularly in Banafsi at market in the docks all day, can you?

[Black_TopHat]

[this letter has a clipping from "The Mermaids Tale, Issue 34" folded within and tossed away]