My friend and Lady,
I do greatly appreciate the gifts, especially the cloak. To receive something made by your hands means the most when it would be so easy to pay another to make it. I only wish that I had some way to bestow gifts back to you, but I am afraid I have no talent that creates. Someday I shall send you a gift of the same kind that you have offered me.
Perhaps you are right and they do watch and intervene. It may be sacreligious to say such things, but I have not seen or felt their change. I trust in my own abilities and those of my men far more than the powers of the gods. I shall continue to complete my ritual, however. It gives me time to gather my thoughts and prepare myself for battle, and if the gods do hear and intervene, than I have covered that possibility.
It seems this issue preoccupies your mind and is screaming to be spoken. I swear that not another soul shall know if you confide in me. I stake my honor and glory on the matter, just so you know how serious I am. Something this sensitive, that scorched your heart can only be a matter of love, yes? So tell me then, who is you love that you fear to name? Why are you so afraid?
If what I have pieced together is true, it seems they have been committing crimes across Greece. Some day I shall catch the two of them, and I will offer them a choice to protect them from being sold as slaves or imprisoned. I can only hope that it is I that finds them first and can offer this protection. I certainly cannot say that I don’t have feelings for her.
Your trusted friend,
Alexandros
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