open | handwritten

[indissection]

FORM: Written
SENDER: Sidony Venaras
RECIPIENT: The Inquisition
WHAT: It's Satinalia... Soon
WHEN: The end of the month
WHERE: Her room in the Gallows
NOTES: IT'S GONNA BE FUN

[ The handwriting is curved, delicate and almost pretty. ]

Greetings, Inquisition. At home there is sometimes a custom of something like anonymous gift giving - we trade names and get each other gifts based on a list of preferences. No one knows who found them their gift as it's all a complete mystery.

[ She's positively gleeful, even if no one else can see it. ]

If you'd like to take part then you're free to add your name to the listings on this page with any gift ideas you may have for yourself. I will match people up and then the gift giving can commence. It's not something that you must take part in, of course, but I do encourage it. It might be fun and you might even make a new friend.

Comments

[ipseite]

I hesitate to be too particular in my requests only for the sake of how varied the Inquisition's means are within the Gallows. But to participate at all is, I think, of some value.

Still newly arrived, I believe?

[indissection]

Perhaps I should have advised a spending limit, but some people are inclined to generosity, I'm sure.

New enough. I've been welcomed, kindly so.

[ipseite]

I would ( there's a definite delay between the beginning of the sentence and the rest of it, before she commits to the thought, ) trust the matter to good judgment. Certainly I wouldn't wish to imply that a less costly gift would be less pleasantly received.

[indissection]

Of course not. It's the thought and the intention that is important, not the price.

[ipseite]

There are days I suspect I would be as grateful for someone else boiling the water for my tea as a small fortune.

[indissection]

The Inquisition truly presents us with hardships we had never expected before. It is rather exhausting.

[ipseite]

It is work more familiar to me than to some, but I cannot say familiarity serves me so in fending off that exhaustion.

( there is one novelty in having relinquished a position of power; relinquishing, as well, the burden of feeling she could not say as much. could not unbend. )

It is good of you to think of such a relief.

[indissection]

Familiarity can often make it even more exhausting, I have discovered.

[ Learning to do things for herself rather than have household servants has been an interesting venture, but she is welcoming it. ]

I want only to bring the Inquisition something good in the midst of all the bad.

[ipseite]

My husband once proposed it bred contempt, but I have long thought that what did that was the lack within his store of patience.

It serves us to be reminded to what end we work.

[indissection]

Having never had a husband I cannot comment on their nature for patience, but I've heard something similar said by close relations.

That was my hope. This war is nasty enough business.

[ipseite]

I think them not a particular breed, in any case. I should confidently hold forth upon the qualities of hounds—indeed I have been most lucky to be joined by my own I had thought not to see again, a gift in himself—but I might hesitate before grouping husbands in the same fashion. At least briefly.

The first casualty of war is the notion of glory. For those who fight it, at least.

[indissection]

I would not hesitate in grouping men, at least, but I am sure that there are many who do not fit a mould so easily.

Let us find glory in giving gifts, then.

[ipseite]

A fair assessment. I might say the hounds are more reliable company, to be sure.

[indissection]

I've found a great deal of them more charming than many men.

[ipseite]

Well, I must then introduce you to Vysvolod. He is an excessively charming gentleman beast.

[indissection]

I would look forward to it, Madame.