a/n; For all of the reviewers this week, thank you so much! I can't personally write responses to all of the guests who don't have a login, but I appreciate every one of you. As someone who is attempting to be better at writing, making anyone feel any type of emotion is what I strive to do.
Hans,
We are delegating a trade agreement in the next six weeks. I think I will plan to make a trip there. What say you? I don't want to provoke a stroke, so I thought a warning would suffice. I won't run away.
What types of things are written in letters that would qualify for a DO NOT SEND label? Surely you couldn't embarrass yourself any more than you already have.
I've never been called a hobby, before. That's nicer than what some other Princes have called me.
Queenly duties are as ever boring, unavoidable, and time consuming. I've put courtship on hold for now, because that is what's truly exhausting. I could delegate and converse with political members all day, but conversing with men who are interested in me? No, thank you.
Elsa
Elsa,
The things that would qualify for DO NOT SEND are the obvious things I would never send to you. Like telling you how eternally grateful I am that you've decided to trust me, or to continue writing letters to me when you have a thousand other more important things to waste your time on, blah blah. You know, the nice things that are very out of character for me, or the things that would make you suspicious of me again because they're out of character.
Really? You'd take politics over talking to a boy about yourself? Well, I guess I can't blame you. Politics and courting are both about bullshitting, but with courting you're bullshitting with someone you may have to marry. What have these Princes called you? I can't imagine they'd call you anything less than a lady of your station. If they have, they truly are idiotic bastards.
Six weeks from the last letter, so about four when I send off this letter, and about two when it arrives to you. Since we are so close to the time, I'll tell you that I'm looking forward to it. I'll be wearing nothing princely, which I don't think you'll mind. I'll try to bathe, but no promises. I can't tell you how I'll greet you. I'll probably do something…inadequate. A forewarning.
Hans