Regarding the Boy from the Village[]
For the attention of Senior Documentarian, Ngwao,
With all the greatest respect for your position and the wisdom that you occupy with it, I really must insist that we send a Blessed Interventioner of some experience to the south-western fishing villages. Rumors that are coming out of that region of a boy who speaks WITH the dead, rather than for the dead. These stories cannot be ignored!
I look forward to your measured and thoughtful response,
Mid-Level Remembrancer, Oovire.
To that most Mid-Leveled Remembrancer, Oovire,
I find myself having to thank you once again for your volunteered opinions on the rumors of fisherpeople and farmhands, gathered from one of your frequent “fact-finding” missions in the working district’s marketplaces and drinking establishments.
It is quite astonishing that you are still able to remember the mission I and my esteemed colleagues pursue. It boggles the mind that you can still think of us while lubricating the tongues of your salt-of-the-earth informants, and gift us tales of boys who talk to ghosts.
Please do not feel obligated to perform further work on our behalf. I’m sure your position keeps you very busy.
Senior Documentarian, Ngwao.
Ngwao,
There’s no need to be dismissive - I was only trying to help. You said that Warden Grael should be assigned an assistant, and foolishly I thought that maybe I could assist in sourcing a candidate with unique skills that could prove of vital importance to your department.
I realize now I was, of course, mistaken - you’d never accept help from me, and that your frankly creepy archivist should be kept far away from anyone, never mind a kind-hearted and impressionable country youth.
I intend to send word to the village that the boy should be taken under the wing of one of the monastic orders, the Brethren perhaps, where I suspect that he’ll receive a much warmer welcome. How wonderful it will be for him, to be around people who will respect his contributions.
