Tue 19th Aug 2025 07:50

Letter to Dad

by Siham Jal’Zuun

Hey Dad,
 
You won’t believe the day I had. I got invited to the Market of Melodies. It's a strange market floating on a cold lake. Remembered me of Ayn Almara. The lake at least. While I was there, I bumped into the strangest bunch. A blind storyteller started going on about someone called the Forgotten Prince. Mysterious, right? I swear, he could see more than anyone else in that place even without eyes.
 
Of course, nothing stays calm for long. The whole market was attacked, and then, get this, an elemental rift opened and froze the lake solid. Just like that. I made a quick escape (don’t worry, I’m fine) with the new people I met: Frederick, Alizée, Ori, Aura, and Yuri.
 
After we escaped the lake the Windwardens rained fire on the lake and almost hit us (I'm still fine). Ori and Yuri invited us to hide in their teahouse called Ta'Alaq.
 
Ori and Yuri, by the way, are absolutely hopeless. They won themselves the teahouse in a gamble, and it shows. The tea? Pretty mid. Worse than the stuff I tried making back home that one time from the "Magic Mud" i got sold, you remember how that turned out. No comparison to the teas Mom used to make. Anyway, they offered me a job. I’m honestly thinking about taking it. They’re so clueless I could probably trick them into paying me double. (Kidding. …Mostly.)
 
So now we’re here at their teahouse, catching some sleep. Tomorrow we’ll start poking around for clues again. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get somewhere this time.
 
Miss you, old man. Don’t get too comfortable without me.
 
Love,
Siham