Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

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Tamary Numesti to Rudy Orlovsky

JohnB 17 Sep 2012 22:55

Dear Mr Orlovsky

Thank you for your kind letter of the 23rd of last month. I was sorry to witness your defeat to Azzi the Whirling Dervish whilst we were in Restov, but was pleased to see that you recovered properly and were able to leave the hall walking tall and straight. Father said you probably collapsed when you got outside, but I don’t believe him at all.

Thank you for the complimentary words about my eyes, although I had to go and look up “limpid” in the dictionary. My sister says that the poem was wet and she thought it was meant to be a bit naughty, but I quite liked it, and I am sure you didn’t mean any of those words in the naughty way at all.

Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

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Re: Tamary Numesti to Rudy Orlovsky

kestershero 21 Sep 2012 19:36

(always a mistake to encourage Rudy, its a good way to get serenaded around 2am outside your balcony and he will probably be using bagpipes).

My dear Miss Numesti,

It gladdened my heart to receive your missive on the 28Th I have it with me now and have read it often. It was to my great shame that the Dervish struck me down, however I can assure you I took no lasting harm and given your luminous presence I was happy to provide the exhibition.

Shortly I will be holding a dance and festival on my estates in New Haven I would be deeply honored if you (and of course your father and sister should you require a chaperon) would attend and would be the happiest man there if you grant me the favour of keeping you company. I hope you will take this small bauble as a token of the esteem in which i hold you and hope it may grace your wrist some time. My friends call me Rudy and I hope I may count you among them.

Yours with all sincerity

Rudolph Orlovsky (Baron)

(Rudy will send a silver bracelet enameled with a kneeling white hart wearing a gold crown round its throat, which he has taken as his personal crest (basically the one used by Richard II) worth 50 gold)

Re: Tamary Numesti to Rudy Orlovsky

JohnB 02 Oct 2012 11:38

Dear Lord Orlovsky

Daddy said I was not allowed to keep the bracelet that had your personal sign on it. He said it would make it looked like you owned me, and he said a few strong words as well, although my sister Kisandra, says all men talk like that when they are angry but she wouldn’t explain all the words to me. I tried everything I knew, I cried, I simpered and I asked sweetly but he still said I couldn’t keep it and that I must return the ‘Damned thing’.

Kisandra thought of a good plan though. We took the bit with the hart off, and send it back to you with this letter. That means I can still wear the bracelet, which reminds me a bit of you.

I hope you can still consider me your friend

Tamary.

(Note: medallion with cipher, but no chain, returned in latter)

Re: Tamary Numesti to Rudy Orlovsky

kestershero 17 Oct 2012 23:37

My most valued friend Tamary,

I was deeply touched to learn of your attempts to sway your fathers wroth with soft words and tears though I am truly grieved to have caused you strife. Please convey my congratulations to your sister on her most excellent plan I shall keep the medallion and hope to eventually sway your father to look well upon me.

Whilst wandering the forest in my domain I came across the most delicate and vivid flowers, their shade matches your eyes exactly so I send them to you pressed so they might last forever, along with a private verse for you.

(Apologies to Sir Edward Sherbourne for stealing his poem and toning it down)

'Violets in Tamarys bodice'

'Twice happy violets! That first had birth in the warm spring when no frosts nip the earth,
Thrice happy now, since transported you are into the sweeter bodice of my lady fair.'

Rudy

Re: Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

JohnB 15 Nov 2012 11:50

Dear Lord Orlovsky

I am glad that you are still my friend and I liked the flowers you sent. I wasn't sure about the poem, but we thought it meant I should put the flowers inside my bodice. But when I tried that they tickled and got squashed up.

Kisandra said they weren't violets though - but I didn't mind that.

Tamary

P.S. Wroth was a very good word. Even Kisandra had to go and look that one up.

Re: Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

kestershero 30 Nov 2012 18:32

My dear Tamary,

I hope this missive finds you and your family well? Since last we met in Restov it has been a busy few months but my little barony is thriving. Farms now cover most of the plains and a road links us to civilization, people are flocking here and the little luxuries that make life bearable are flowing, we even have a Baronial yacht. It is my sincere hope that your home in Fort Dreliv is similarly established.

We are currently securing our southern boundary with a fort and once this has begun it is my intent to conduct official visits to Restov, Fort Dreliv and of course Varnhold, it is my hope that we might renew our friendship and your presence will make the otherwise dull winter months fly by.

Until the first snows

Rudy

Re: Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

JohnB 15 Jan 2013 21:30

Dear Rudy

I am sorry that I didn't write earlier. Daddy said it would be unfair to send a messenger all the way over to see you in the winter. But now it is time for the spring festival I am allowed to send a message again.

I would love to see your baronial yacht, we only have boring old fishing and patrol boats here. The fishing boats smell bad and I am not allowed near the patrol boats. Daddy thinks their crews might be too rude. Kisandra snuck out and went to watch the boats on The Slough. She said they were just ordinary sailors and soldiers though.

I was looking forward to seeing you all winter. But you never came.

I hope you still like me.

Tamary.

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Re: Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

kestershero 22 Jan 2013 00:34

My dear Tamary,

I was delighted to receive your letter and can assure you that you have often been on my thoughts, your long silence made me fear I would have intruded upon private celebrations had I come unannounced to your home, thus out of deference I stayed away for the winter. In addition we had a little local difficulty with an owl bear of all things which had apparently decided Horcroft was a good source of food. I shall not sully your delicate ears with tales of the epic battle to end the predatory beasts threat to my people but it is enough to say I was successful in my quest and the people of Newhaven walk safe at night again.

Nothing would please me more than to see you but events preclude me from travelling to your home, something has happened to the people of Varnhold who appear to have been dispersed from their homes and are missing. Perhaps if I were to send my boat to you, your father might consent for you all to come to Horcroft as my guest to celebrate Stagfall, I can promise the crew is polite and entirely suitable for a lady.

Until we can meet again,

Yours always

Rudy

PS Since Newhaven now covers such a wide area my advisors tell me I must now style myself a Count of all things.

Re: Tamary Numesti. (Miss)

JohnB 08 Apr 2013 09:40

Dear Rudy

I am so glad to hear that you still like me although I wasn’t sure what ‘styling yourself as a count’ meant. Kisandra spoke to Lord Besult and he told her that Count is a southern title that isn't used much in Brevoy. He was very helpful to Kisandra and said it sounded like you had taken control of a lot of land. That sounds very exciting.

I know about owl-bears, because Arivon the Brae, fought one in the stories that daddy used to tell us when we were small. I didn't know they were real though. Did it eat many of your people before you quested out after it? Daddy’s soldiers found some big frog-men down by the fields the other day, but they only managed to kill two before the rest ran away.

Daddy laughed, and then said something rude, when I told him you had offered to send your boat for me. He says the river doesn't come anywhere near your town and that he wouldn't let me go off on my own with any strange man, let alone one like you. I wondered what he meant by that? You wouldn't hurt me would you would you?

Please write soon …..

Tamary