"All the World's Sorrow"
By Amanda Swiftgold
Letters One
To Amarant Coral from Freya Crescent
Hello. I hope this gets to you before I happen to see you again, or else I will feel as though I have wasted my efforts. I know how you tend to avoid speaking with the moogles, however, and so it's a good possibility you will never get your mail.
Well, maybe I am foolish for wanting to write to you, especially such a short time after we have parted. But if I hadn't done it I know you wouldn't have, so, well, here it is. I think I understand now how hard it was for you to start writing things down because I have so much here to say and no idea how to begin it.
I can't ask politely whether you've arrived in Alexandria safely because I know it's a foolish question. What else do people write in letters? I haven't sent one in such a long time I've forgotten how.
I'd like to ask you to thank Zidane for me, for bringing me your book to read when I was so confused about what you'd told me. I really had no idea that you were writing all that while, even when I came into the room in the middle of it. And I'm glad that I was able to find you in time, before you were drowned. I don't know, it seems that things all worked out for the best in the end, and isn't that the best way for endings? Beginnings too. I just hope - it stays that way, that's all.
I should reach Burmecia tomorrow, the ground is getting muddier and the rainclouds are almost overhead. I should be able to take care of things there and leave again within a week. Burmecia will always be my heart's home, but I am also looking forward to seeing Alexandria again and also to seeing all the other places I have not been in a while. (I hope I am correct in assuming that you would not be satisfied staying in one town for a long time, and that I would be welcome to go along with you wherever you would be going.)
See you soon.
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To Freya Crescent from Amarant Coral
Hey, I didn't know you wanted me to write you letters, or else I would have. And I am now, so problem solved, right? Someone's got to start it, it was just you this time. Always been you now that I think about it, one way or another. And you didn't even have to worry about me finding a moogle, since one of them came and delivered it themselves. Zidane fixed their mail thing for them, remember? Besides, I would have found it myself eventually anyway.
At any rate, you don't need to play that manners game with me, I hope you should know that by now. Just say what needs to be said, forget the damn weather. It's good to hear from you, though.
Sorry, but I'm not going to thank Zidane one bit. I've only been here a day or two and already I've had enough of him and his smug looks, and if you were here they'd be even worse, so it's probably a good thing that you're not. He already thinks that you forgiving me was all thanks to him and he's being the most insufferable little idiot this side of the Mist Continent, being that Eiko's not here and all. Well, I am glad that you came before I drowned too, but it doesn't have anything to do with him.
Oh, and don't be stupid. Why would I go off and leave you here once you came back? All I want to know now is why I couldn't have gone with you to Burmecia. There's as little for me here in Alexandria as there is anywhere else.
Heh, this is still a bit weird and I probably sound stupid now. Oh well, you know me by now and you can forgive this too. See you when you get here.