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July 11th 2012
My Beloved John,
Today I sat down to do the negotiations between my host family Ryu and their feud enemy family Houng. The reason for the negotiations was the middle daughter of the Ryu family and second oldest son of the Houng family had developed potential bondmarks and the purpose was to determine whether they could come to an end of the feud in order to bond. Apparently the problems had started as an argument over resources. It had bloomed to a feud when a few hot heads got into a fight and members of both nests had been gravely injured and even killed. A Tracker had put a stop to the active feuding, but the two nests had retained the hatred of each other, and took to avoiding one another to keep from going back to violence.

Then two weeks ago, the two developed bondmarks during a conference both were attending at the university. The two had found a quiet tea house to speak in and while talking had discovered that they had a lot in common but were supposed to be enemies. Both had gone to their nest elders to discuss the situation but the elders refused to meet and discuss it without a neutral third party. Both wanted either a Tracker or a high elder.

So here I am, the alpha-second who knows nothing about wolf politics, let alone mouse politics, having to deal with a feud between two different mouse nests. How did I end up in this situation again? Thankfully Eric (and I have no idea how Elspeth and Eric connected over a distance of 8609 km) told me of the customs tied to the ending of feuds and of using bonds to reinforce the ending. Actually, he had me select four children, two from each leading family and bound them together under a forced protection bond through the Dusk Daughter. That way they will be forced to learn to work together.

I also got to act as bonder between Ryu Mi-ja and Houng Jae-joon. Making their bonding official. Despite my lack of formal wear (boy did I notice it when everyone else was in formal wear, and I am in the same close I wore to hunt the web with, I definitely miss my suits), I was still given as much respect as the elders of the both nests. By the end of it I could understand why you do not like all the formality, though they seem more formal than those from London.

Do we need to do that? I do not recall there being anything more than nearly three days of sex, touching, bathing, and feeding each other when we bonded. We will have to discuss this when I get home. There is no way that I am letting anyone think you are not properly bonded!

I am off to bed for the night. In the afternoon I am to leave for mainland China, according to the information Eric provide and the updated information I have gotten from the different webs as I have taken them out, the only parts left are in China, Russia, and parts of Eastern Europe. I hope that means I will be home soon. However China and Russia are such big countries it might not go as fast as I want.
Forever yours,
Sherlock