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as soon as she slipped the letter into the messenger hawk’s leather pouch, the bird took off. she gave it a wave, and started out of the room.
it hits her, a good six hours later, that the bird had had no directions, no command on where to take the letter. riah froze. there hadn’t been anything too important, no great elvan secrets, had there? there couldn’t have been, she tried to console herself. it was just a simple checkup letter sent to a town leader on the outskirts of elv, to convince them she was meant to be the next queen.
she couldn’t believe she’d messed this up. somewhere out there was a letter with her name on it, exactly what it contained she couldn’t remember. she could only hope that it reached it’s destination, somehow. maybe the hawk had known before. maybe it would realize that it hadn’t recieved instruction and come back. in the meantime, riah could only sit there, gnawing on her bottom lip.
everything depended on that stupid bird.