Dear Mother and Father,
I am so gladdened to hear that you returned to Waysend safely. The recent events that have plagued me are over for now thank the gods. Hopefully with the extra gold I sent with you and the herbs we acquired will speed your recovery. Father I pray that you will look after Mother as you have always done. I did not tell you what happened in the end so I will endeavour to do so now. Master Febris had acquired the alliance of a particular house of evil Drow who were stealing family heirlooms from other families and giving them to Febris who acted as a fence and access point to the surface world. They obviously felt it was safer selling the stuff there than in the underdark. However the brotherhood took exception to this activity becasue it came into their territory so they intercepted some of the drow and took what turned out to be a particularly special coin. Anyway thats when we got dragged into this, you came to visit me on one of Febris's ships and in so doing got poisoned instead of Febris. That was when he blackmailed me into intercepting the Brotherhood member and getting the pouch which had the coin in it back for Febris. Well thats when the world turned on its head Febris was convinced it was Talia who had tried to poison him and so told me the only way I will get the antidote for the poison was to bring him her head. Which you knew I could not do as I loved her once, in fact I still do but she is not mine any longer, she has her own destiny to fulfill and I am content with that for some reason. I think I understand where she is coming from even though she did use me to some degree. Anyway the Drow who had discovered the loss of their coin came after me to get it back, Febris's drow he was allied with came after me to get the coin back and the Brotherhood put a mark and a price on my head for killing their member and taking the coin. With all this going on at the same time I feared for my life every moment of every day, assassins coming at me left and right, brotherhood members, mercenaries and drow. i could not go anywhere. Even Hlint was not safe for me. I could not travel with anyone as I put them in danger as Oskar found out one evening when we were brought to within an inch our our lives from one such attack. Where does Talia fit in you ask? Well Talia is in league with an order of Good elves apparently who wage a fight against the drow and in this case Febris as well. She was the one who brought me into the situation unknowingly and then subsequently use me to fascilitate her goals. I can tell you the emotional and physical torment I have suffered over the last weeks has almost driven me mad. But with the help of Krodish, a companion of mine we succeeded in rushing the order where the Drow were hiding found them there and led the other faction to them, we did get caught in the crossfire between them but eventually succeeded in making it to the area where Febris was hiding out with his drow allies. Defeating him the remaining drow left, the brotherhood were appeased with his death so they have left me alone for now and Talia, well she appeared at the end with her Elven allies and produced the antidote I was looking for. So there ends the tale and I hope that I do not see another drow or a member of the brotherhood for a very long time. I have thanked Krodish for his aid as I could not have done it without him. What is important is that you and father are now safe and have some gold in your pockets to help with things.For me I am back in Hlint and working harder now towards preparing for the battle to come against the blood. I have renewed energy and vigour and I think that my trials over the last few months have made me realise that I can have a part to play in this and to that end I will devote myself to preparing. Anyway Love to you both,
Tarradon Duvall
