Library Cover Letters Novels & Stories

The document had Elara's seal on it, the formal Ashrock seal that I had only seen on official pack correspondence, pressed in blue wax rather than the silver she had used for personal letters, which told me this was formal rather than personal. Except that the cover letter was in her handwriting and addressed to me directly. I opened the cover letter first. It was two pages, and the handwriting was the effortful version, the one that told me she had written it recently, possibly in the weeks since the territorial review, during the period when her body had been giving more than it had available. She had written it in the full knowledge of what it cost her. I read it once for the information