( The first gallant note a young maiden receives, ah...! Of course, the response comes in fine penmanship and... doused in rose water. Alongside a lily blossom. )
Master Wei Wuxian,
I thank your kind note and pray to the good skies that they keep you in health and fair fortune. For I hear you are just and most worldly and kind, and I have heard ( Spied, since receipt of this note. ) much about you, and indeed the Gut's Bind is a fairer place since you have graced it with the gods' blessings of care. And though I am not permitted, being of the fairer persuasion, and knowing the weakness of my gender, such that it is, to visit often, I am told you are ( Handsome. ) most pleasing and accomplished, and so I thank you again. Please keep well and accept this pressed blossom of the lily of the vale, which I am told greatly resembles the fine pallor of your pristine cheek.
These are troubled times, my brothers tell me, and it must be so, for they are men, and greatly burdened with the glory of their wisdom and positions. And my brother is king, and so I am told I shall have a dowry of dignity to suit his station, and I am grateful and well pleased. But if it should please the skies to call upon me to serve my people in the ways of my blood, that it be shed, then it is done knowing that such is my duty, and so I accept it, for I was raised to this purpose. And know please that, in death, I would not dishonour my future husband, and that my dowry would yet become a fine and uncontested gift of widowhood.
Thank you and may the skies keep you in tender watch.
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Master Wei Wuxian,
I thank your kind note and pray to the good skies that they keep you in health and fair fortune. For I hear you are just and most worldly and kind, and I have heard ( Spied, since receipt of this note. ) much about you, and indeed the Gut's Bind is a fairer place since you have graced it with the gods' blessings of care. And though I am not permitted, being of the fairer persuasion, and knowing the weakness of my gender, such that it is, to visit often, I am told you are ( Handsome. ) most pleasing and accomplished, and so I thank you again. Please keep well and accept this pressed blossom of the lily of the vale, which I am told greatly resembles the fine pallor of your pristine cheek.
These are troubled times, my brothers tell me, and it must be so, for they are men, and greatly burdened with the glory of their wisdom and positions. And my brother is king, and so I am told I shall have a dowry of dignity to suit his station, and I am grateful and well pleased. But if it should please the skies to call upon me to serve my people in the ways of my blood, that it be shed, then it is done knowing that such is my duty, and so I accept it, for I was raised to this purpose. And know please that, in death, I would not dishonour my future husband, and that my dowry would yet become a fine and uncontested gift of widowhood.
Thank you and may the skies keep you in tender watch.