[Lady Moreta]

Replying to myself I know... but I finished my latest snippet

My other character, as I said, in a letter to her Mama.

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or I Told You I Was Having Fun

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Dear Mama

You said you wanted me to write and tell you any news I had – well, I’ve been promoted! My whole team was in fact, we are now members of Regdar, Regd-, Redgon – oh I’m not sure how it’s spelt and Ron isn’t here to ask (obviously not, as I’m in the female barracks and he’s male). I’m really very lucky he’s around, I’m sure my reports wouldn’t make very much sense if the CO had to read them as I write it. Sometimes big words confuse me.

Anyway, after our last two missions, we were told that there was an opening in Red- the Rangers, and we were offered those places! You can tell Papa that he was worrying for nothing, I’m fine. Okay, there was a bit of trouble after our last job, but I’ve been completely healed and Beda said there wouldn’t be any scars. Oh! You won’t know who Beda even is; I haven’t told you about my new team have I? Beda is a cleric of Perha, she’s very pretty and awfully nice. Last time we were in the barracks she told me she used to go around giving last rites to people who were dying. That’s how we met actually, she’d been sent by the Temple to give last rites to one of the important men who was dying. I’m sorry Mama, I know you like to have details, but I simply can’t remember what his name was. Beda said there might be a problem with my memory for a while. Maybe you shouldn’t tell Papa that. Anyway, Beda is good to have around, she was really nice about patching me up and she seemed grateful that I’d been there.

Ron was definitely happy that I was there. He’s a gnome, and he’s really short (obviously!). He is a wizard, he was talking about his training and all the spells he learnt, and honestly it gave me a bit of a headache. I think he’s much much smarter than I am. Still he was really nice about helping me with my report writing, so I don’t mind so much. He was also really happy that I was able to get in the way of the fighting. Wizards don’t seem to be very tough, some of the other fighters have laughed at him and called him a ‘squishy wizard’. I’d have to say that they’re right, but I wonder if they’ve seen the sort of things I’ve seen Ron do. He’s really very clever. I do wish he’d shut up sometimes though, he talks an awful lot. And he’s really annoying whenever he gets anywhere near Kregg. Kregg is a kobold, you know they don’t get on well with gnomes. Kregg and Ron are very good at proving that. They constantly nag at each other. I got so sick of it last time we were out that I yelled at them both to shut up. I don’t think they really listened to me. No one ever really listens to me, unless I’m telling them to get out of the way of my swing.

The last member of the group – well, he’s gone AWOL. Osserc is an archer, and he’s really good. He can get two arrows in the air at the same time, it’s neat to watch. He’s been helpful, softening things up until I can get there to do the real damage. But he’s also vanished. I wonder if I should mention that to our CO? I mean, I’m sure he knows about it, but maybe we should be looking for him. What do you think Mama?

Does Rikad want details of all our fights? He probably does. You can tell him the first big thing we fought was a pastry! Well, it wasn’t really – it was a golem, but it had been created by the wife of a baker, so it was made out of calzone. It was really tough, which surprised me; but it tasted pretty good afterwards. I know what you’re thinking – that wasn’t very nice, but the baker didn’t seem to mind. He was a bit upset, but he seemed to realise that it was his fault that it had gone all wrong in the first place. Well, maybe more his wife’s fault – he’s just a baker, she’s the wizard. Or would that be wizardess? She’s the one who animated it, and I guess it was her spells going crazy that sent it crazy. Ron explained it, but well, you know me Mama, most of it went in one ear and out the other. I’m not worried though, they don’t pay me to think. I [u]was[/i] impressed though, did you know Mama, she had animay she’d made a poker that thought. Ron called it something, but I’m not sure how it’s meant to be written, so I’m not going to try. It talked at us, and tried to keep us out of the house though. It was surprisingly hard to stop. In the end Osserc did it with his bow. He’s a really good shot.

Our second mission was scarier. Don’t tell Papa, but I nearly got knocked out. It’s a good thing Beda was around, because I’m not sure any of the boys have any idea about healing. I’m running out of room on this paper, and I don’t have any more, so I’d better keep it short. But we had to investigate this old guy, who’s really well known in Dandanagan, but was getting really sick and old looking. Which apparently he wasn’t supposed to. We went and investigated, and it turned out that his nephew (nephew? I think that’s who he was, either that or his son) had gotten himself involved in some sort of cult nonsense. The silly idiot even stabbed his own sister. She was rather pissed off about that.

Maybe you shouldn’t tell Rikad that part. He doesn’t need to get any ideas, and I’d rather not have to fight him off next time I visit home.

We sorted it out though – eventually. And I got my first taste of magic! Ron cast a spell he calls enlarge person on me. And well, that’s exactly what it did. I quite like being huge, it was fun. It didn’t really help much in the fight though. It threw my balance off, and I wasn’t expecting it to be that way, so I ended up almost tripping over my own feet, and I couldn’t get my sword swinging properly. Made me very effective at standing in front of people though. The silly idiot apologised in the end, and his uncle (father?) forgave him, so it all turned out okay.

So you see Mama, I’m doing all right. It was after that mission we got promoted, so you could say I’m doing really all right. We even get to keep what we find, if we can’t find any owner for it. I’m going to enjoy belonging to this new ranger unit I think. I’m wondering what else I can do to be more helpful. I wonder if a dog would help? I wonder if they’d let me have one? I think I’ll ask.

Give my love to Papa and Rikad, and have heaps of it all to yourself.

Love Lirrin