Alternate RP Long-Distance Communication

[Avaria Lockwood]

Ava had been enjoying her time travelling with Vader. Though, it did get a little lonely when he was out working. She had decided to do something a little different today, and when he left for the day, she sat at the small table in their room and pulled out her notebook. After several minutes of thinking, she started to write.

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𝒩𝑜𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒,

𝐻𝒾! 𝐼𝓉’𝓈 𝒜𝓋𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶. 𝐿𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓌𝑜𝑜𝒹? 𝒲𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝑔𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒷𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈. 𝐼 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒾𝓏𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓇. 𝐼𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝑜… 𝐼’𝓂 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎, 𝐼 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉… 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝑒𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝒶𝓃𝓉. 𝐼 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎… 𝒶𝓃𝑔𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓈𝒶𝓌 𝒽𝒾𝓂, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹, 𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑜 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒.

𝑀𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃?𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊? 𝐼’ 𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒯𝒾𝓂𝓂𝓎- 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁, 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝐻𝓊𝓂𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝓇𝒶𝓃 𝒜𝒸𝒸𝒾𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈, 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝒾𝓂. 𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝒷𝑜𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇! 𝐻𝑒’𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁. 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓌𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝑒’𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓅 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒵𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹, 𝓌𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓃𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓌𝒶𝓎.

𝑀𝓎 𝒶𝓊𝓃𝓉 𝒦𝒶𝓇𝒾 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓁𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒, 𝒾𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒹𝓇𝑜𝑜𝓂𝓈. 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝓊𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝒹𝒾𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓂. 𝐼 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝒹𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎𝓃 𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝑀𝓎 𝒜𝓊𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓇 𝒩𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒽- 𝒹𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓂? 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓃𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔! 𝐼𝓃 𝒞𝒶𝒾𝓇𝑜! 𝐼 𝒷𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒸, 𝐸𝑔𝓎𝓅𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝓇𝓎, 𝒾𝒻 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒽𝑜𝓉. 𝒮𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝑔𝓃𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓌, 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽, 𝓈𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎’𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒.

𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒷𝒶𝒷𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒻𝓊𝓃, 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓅 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝒶 𝒻𝑒𝓌 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝑜, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓌 𝓊𝓅 𝓈𝑜 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓁𝓎, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝑜 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒻𝓊𝓃. 𝐼 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝒹𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃.

𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉’𝓈 𝑒𝓃𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓂𝑒. 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝐼’𝓂 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇! 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝒶 𝒷𝒾𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒜𝓁𝑒𝓍𝒾𝓈, 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀, 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝐼 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓉. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝒾𝒸𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈. 𝒲𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃, 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉? 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 𝓈𝑜 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝓂𝓎 𝑜𝓌𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒. 𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑒.
𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓋𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶​

 

[Noelle Maxwell]

Noelle was at his desk with all the papers spread out on its surface. With his class schedule and tutorial gig to juggle, the Hufflepuff barely had time to go out for recreation. Unlike Philip who was really seizing the time to go out, do what Merlin knows what. He straightened up from his chair and looked out of the open window, just in time to see a dark speck in the sky becoming larger. Seeing it was an owl, he quickly placed some books over his paper to keep it from being blown away. It held a letter in its beak to which he opened quickly, not recognizing the penmanship. Avaria. The smile climbing up to his face. With fatigue forgotten, he grabbed a clean paper and started writing.

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢,

𝘏𝘪! 𝘖𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘨? *𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴* 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯? 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴? 𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘩𝘦𝘺. 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘐𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘺, 𝘭𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥. 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘐’𝘥 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴. 𝘏𝘦𝘤𝘬, 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩. (𝘒𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨!) 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘝𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘦. 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧. 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵. 𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

𝘕𝘰. 𝘯𝘰, 𝘯𝘰. 𝘐 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘪𝘳. 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘖𝘳… 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬? 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦

 

[Avaria Lockwood]

Ava was having a nice day, sitting in the sun. She had bought a dozen new sketchbooks, and had settled onto the balcony of the hotel room they were staying in. She had pulled out her watercolors, intending to practice on her work and filling the sketchbooks with tattoo ideas. Not just for her, just tattoos in particular. She looked up as she heard her owl, smiling as she read over the letter. She waited a few days before replying, focusing on her art. Eventually though, she took a breather to sit down and write him back.

𝒩𝑜𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒,

𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑜! 𝐼’𝓂 𝒹𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁, 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝓉, 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇. 𝒲𝑒’𝓇𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒵𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓂𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝒻𝑒𝓌 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝒰𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓊𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝒶 𝒷𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇. 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼… 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁, 𝓌𝑒 𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁.

𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒩𝑜𝓇𝒶 𝒷𝑜𝒾𝓁-𝒿𝒾𝓃𝓍𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓂, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝒹, 𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝑒𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒩𝑜𝓇𝒶, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒿𝑒𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇. 𝐻𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂. 𝐼 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇, 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒. 𝐼𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓂𝑒. 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎, 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁. 𝐼 𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝑔𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒽𝓊𝓇𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 ‘𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁,’. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓋𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒.

𝐻𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒶 𝒻𝑒𝓌 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒. 𝐼 𝒶𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝓍𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇. 𝑀𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝑒𝓃. 𝑀𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃, 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝐼 𝒹𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒. 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓃’𝓉 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅’𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝑜𝓇, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝓊𝓉 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝐼 𝓌𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝒻 𝐼 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂.

𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝓊𝓉𝑜𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃? 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉’𝓈 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓅𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒, 𝒹𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝒶𝓉. 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒿𝑜𝒷 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒜𝒸𝒸𝒾𝑜. 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓇 𝒩𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒽- 𝑒𝓇, 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝓁𝑒 𝑀𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁- 𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝓃. 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇, 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒’𝓇𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓊𝓈, 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹. 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓁𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒽.
𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒜𝓋𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶​

 

[Noelle Maxwell]

It had been a few days before a response from Avaria came. Noelle did not realize how much he had been expecting them until the excitement was overwhelming when her owl landed on his window sill. He had fallen into a habit of studying with his windows open, even leaving them open until late into the night. He had even set up an owl perch for her owl with some owl treats ready. Scooping the creature, he settled it on the owl perch, the owl delighted to discover its new place. Grabbing a pen, he set to work on his reply.

𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢,

𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵. 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘳𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺. 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺.

𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 (𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴) 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵.

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢, 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢. 𝘐𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘱, 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭. (𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴) 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴,𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢.

𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵? 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘊𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘣 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘶𝘭. 𝘋𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘐 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶? 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵. 𝘖𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘸𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.

𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘚𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥.

𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺,
𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦

 

[Avaria Lockwood]

Ava continued going about her work, slowly filling up notebook after notebook with her watercolor. She hardly noticed the letter that came in, not spotting it for several days. She picked it up, paint staining her hands and some on her cheek. She alternated between smiling and scowling at the page before pulling over her notebook to reply.

𝒩𝑜𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒,

𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝓈𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓉. 𝐼’𝓂 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝑔𝓁𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎 𝓂𝓎 𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓁𝓎. 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝐼 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒷𝒾𝓉, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈. 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓃? 𝐼’𝓂 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝑔𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀. 𝐼 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝓃 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝒟𝒾𝒹 𝐼 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉? 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁.

𝒲𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁, 𝒩𝑜𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒, 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓁𝓎 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓊𝓅 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝑜𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈. 𝑀𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓁𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓊𝓅 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃. 𝒜𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓇 𝒶𝓈 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹, 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑜 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝒾𝓂. 𝐼 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒽𝓊𝓇𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎, 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒 𝓎𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒. 𝐼 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇. 𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃. 𝐻𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓇𝒹. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒶 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓉𝒽. 𝐼 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝑜 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒾𝓉.

𝒰𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓊𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓊𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒. 𝐼 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝓅 𝒾𝓃 𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒾𝓃 𝒲𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓃𝓉, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝓊𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝑜𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽. 𝒲𝑒’𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒸𝒽𝑒𝒸𝓀 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒽, 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽, 𝐼’𝓂 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒’𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓊𝓅 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎.

𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒,
𝒜𝓋𝒶𝓇𝒾𝒶​

 

[Noelle Maxwell]

Noelle leaned back with a sigh as he put the letter on the desk. Philip was damn stupid to let Avaria go, or even hurt her in any way. He had his second chance, even a third. He had already packed his bag when the letter came in. Grabbing a fresh paper, he began to write.

𝘔𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢,

𝘐 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥? *𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴*

𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢… 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘹𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶? 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘮 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴? 𝘐𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩.

𝘈𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴,
𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦

 

[Avaria Lockwood]

Ava's life felt like it was spiraling, really, with so much going on all at once. She completely forgot about the letter from Noelle until she and Vader were moving into the apartment over the bookstore, and it fell out of one of the boxes for her room. She read it over, before scribbling out her own note to send back.

𝒩𝑜𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒, 𝒮𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓁𝓎. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓊𝓅. 𝒜 𝓁𝑜𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈. 𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓊𝓅 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓁𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒽 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒? 𝒲𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓀. 𝐼 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒. 𝒫𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒? 𝐼'𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒵𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒲𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓉𝑜𝓃. 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇? 𝐼'𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝒱𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒹𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎. 𝐵𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝑜𝒹? ~𝒜𝓋𝒶