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Third Week, January 2701 - Letter left on the shrine

[raavashing]

[The letter comes with a small pile of sea glass.]

To The Outsider,

I hope the new year is seeing you well. I'm not used to the new year starting so early in the winter. In my world it is celebrated near the end of the winter, when the winter starts to break but has not yet given way to spring. The tracking of this world's year is strange to me. I'm sure I'll get used to it. It's just strange. It makes me curious how the years are tracked in other worlds.

I've been staying in the small town near here for the last couple weeks and will be for the rest of the winter. Until the end of the second month, February. If you decide you want to visit, come to The Barrel after dark and ask to be shown to Rin Tohsaka's office. She has one above the coffee house and we meet there after dark. She's been teaching me about the magic theory of her world.

If you come closer to the dawn, in the time before the sun rises, I'm usually at the camp I set up. It's a quarter mile or so from here, just on the other side of the windbreak the cliffs make between the ocean and the land. It's a small area, protected by the rocks. Should be easy to find if you walk straight from here toward the town.

I have two friends with me for the winter. Qing Lin is a snakedog that Zuko found this summer at the Treun Tourney. She's very sweet and very protective of ZhenZhen. ZhenZhen is a chocobo that Lumina gave to me last month when I was traveling south. I'm not used to having an actual 'pet' animal around. One that depends on me so much, like a small child would a parent. Even Qing Lin doesn't depend on me entirely for survival. But all Zhen Zhen has known in her short life is humans taking care of her. Choosing when to feed her and when to see to her cleaning. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to teach her to care for herself should something happen to me, though. She's still very young. Only five months now.

Speaking of friends, how are yours? The maidenfish and the wolfhounds. Are they well since we last traveled together? How big are Firtha and Varian now? Are they fully grown yet? If I don't see them this winter, I hope to see them in the spring.

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