Dear Miss Fiona Saint Clair,
Clever! Very Clever. You have me more curious about you with every letter. Your message carrier impresses me and my parents. My parents are not easily impressed.
As for your age, irrelevant. You are an amazing woman and I want to know more about you. Your education in its infancy. I want your friendship as long as you'll have me. I will attempt to develop a patient disposition, no matter how much my mind protests.
You enjoy science, anthropology and mathematics? What do you like most about anthropology? I have found our earth populated with such diversity. I love the idea of pre-industrialised cultures and their unique races. For now, I study what helps me be a detective like my mother.
Your mother's encouragement into medicine is probably based on your intelligence and ability. I am sure you will excel no matter which medicine speciality you choose. Being challenged and happy in your career is more important than having an income. Don't you agree?
My education was exciting plus I took advantage of rare opportunities to work and shadow real cases. I enjoy working for the family business and enjoy the challenges being in a family run detective agency. It is not sleuthing alone; a detective career includes reading, psychology, sociology, kinesics, ethology, chemistry, osmology and even cymatics.
My mother loves the chemical sample. It worked well on garments soiled during an arrest. It saved much labor versus the usual hours of soaking and scrub method.
How are your studies going? Anything interesting?
Do you have any habits? I do. When I become stressed, I exercise. If I can't exercise I fidget with my hands. My mother has built a gymnasium in our basement with all the tools and gadgets to keep us on our toes. My home training includes hand-to-hand combat. At University, I attended physical education, but this curriculum is more intensive. You would not be pleased to see how many times my derrière has kissed the ground. I am sore physically, but I am getting better and soon I will be able to best a slow criminal.
I have never played cricket or watched a match. Maybe in the future you can explain cricket to me.
Besides cricket, what do you do in your time not spent studying? It doesn't seem like you have much free time. What does a typical day hold for you?
My day starts at six in the morning as we meet in the gymnasium for our training and exercises, breakfast, followed by reading over cases, research, investigation then afternoon tea. After which I have personal free time to read, explore or watch a woman on her bicycle. After dinner, we relax in the drawing-room until dark, at which time the real sleuthing begins. Terrible things take place at night and we do our best to keep them from happening.
I have begun my sleuthing on discovering more about you, Ms Saint Clair. I want to find out about the origin of your wonderful auburn hair.
No, my veil does not hide an ego. If you dare to look behind you will find brown eyes hoping to see you soon.
My apologies for such a short letter and I close this with good wishes.
Your Friend Alaya
P.S. I am inquiring, from whom or when did you learn "truth is singular."