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Her letters to him are filled with news about what's going on at the palace, how this noble or another is stirring up trouble again, and how they're going to get themselves killed by rival factions if they're not careful, and other such things.
There's a paragraph asking about the rebellion and giving strategic advice, and a sentence, in slightly smaller handwriting, asking him how he's doing. She sends her well wishes, and writes that she hopes he'll be back soon.
The endings of her letters are always the sameāone or two phrases scratched out, and then, a sincerely, Kalasin finishing it off.
Kaddar sits in his tent, rereading them by candlelight, and wonders what she had intended to write, and, more importantly, when he had begun to care.
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