November 1413
To Doctor Helminha Jannisari, professor at Trisica
It's been quite a while, doctor, since I've seen your mark on paper. Your handwriting has always been quite dear to me, as interesting as that may sound. It can get quite cold here, in the north. It's nice to open up a letter and feel the warmth of another region every once in a while. I think you might have already guessed, I don't get many correspondences. Not that I usually take the time to respond to others, it's much too drab for my tastes- the routine of it, I mean. Your letters, however, are always a special occasion.
My apologies. I rambled a bit, didn't I?
I thank you for your congratulatory remarks, I'm quite proud of my rank- though seemingly a low one, to the rest of the council. Polaris remains quite forgotten by the rest of the scientific community, but I very much plan to make a change of that. I believe all regions should be a bustling hub of scientific discovery, don't you? And, yet, it seems most of our council-members will have nothing to do with a base outside of Imisus; leaving the rest looking more abandoned than actual institutes of science and learning. Even our previous commander burst out of the front doors without so much as a backwards glance at the mention of promotion to a base near Knotwood. I've yet to receive even a single letter from him, asking how his old base is doing.
Ambition, it would seem, is a trait that makes even the most intellectual of beings single-minded. Though, I admit, I have fallen prey to it in that I am now the commander of the base I was once only an assistant of.
As for my research, I can only say that it is very slow-going. Monitoring the lasting effects of something I hope to be positive takes a while, as a cure- for me- is not currently the goal. Only the prolonged life of those already Plagued. I have had many failures, and not much success. Being stationed at an underrated base, I do not receive as much grants and employees as I would like to. It greatly hinders my progress.
I hope to soon travel to Helios, and make my research known. Perhaps, then, I might receive a few helpful donations.
In response to your posession of a Plague, I congratulate you. A Servos certainly would prove to be helpful to the rest of the community- as well as, I'm sure, your research. I wish you the best of luck in its growth. I'd like to be informed of its progress, if you wouldn't mind? I've yet to work with an actual Plague outside of my schooling. Perhaps I could visit you, once it has grown? I'd like to talk with it, perhaps even see if I could somehow incorporate it into my own research. If, that is, you'd be so obliged as to let me.
Shyregoad has done nothing to me but frozen my intellect into place, strengthened it with its icy grasp. The cold, after all, is a home to me that those of other regions may not be able to even begin to comprehend.
As always,
Doctor Amaryllis Nirinaya
