29th December…
Dear Wally it's been my first Christmas without you. It would have been my first Christmas on my own since the year that J left, back when my mom was in prison (My dad refused to celebrate it). Well it would have been except the queen decided that I shouldn't spend Christmas alone (I ran into her at the market, again. She's actually surprisingly normal). So being the crazy lady that she is she invited me to have lunch with her and her family on Christmas day. I believe a direct quote was "The more the merrier"
So I met the queen and her extended family, which turned out to be the majority of the country. The queen asked me lots of questions about you and some were hard to answer, and being me in my special hormonal state made me nearly cry.
I told her that you worked for the American military as a covert operation officer (not really a huge lie but still kind of a slight lie) and that you went missing in action and was presumed about 6 months ago. After I said that she didn't press, the majority of people know about the military efforts of the Americans in Bialya and respect them. Many people in Adornovica are close to or related to a falcon somewhere and everybody had this sort of patriotism toward their country it's like everyone's that comic book hero you and Dick used to have nerd fests about what's his name? Colonel America or something? Everyone feels some kind of duty and everyone knows everyone.
The celebrations are still going on and they apparently last well into the first week of the New Year, these Adornovicans sure do know how to party. The teenagers have winter season jobs ( if working for the sloe gin maker down the road from us counts as a job seeing as they get paid in free bottles of sloe gin) or ski all over the mountains using the intricate systems of ski lifts, and even when drunk they are still offering to help me with things they're all very chivalrous. Take notes Wally you're being out ranked by teenagers, but you probably already knew that.
Damn you Wallace.