intrigued-stranger

[intrigued-stranger]

𝓌𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓉𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎. 𝓈𝒶𝓌 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎. 𝓌𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎. 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝑔𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎.

[intrigued-stranger]

Stranger,

Forgive me if I am hesitant to accept your admiration. Surely you understand, given the circumstances.

Still, I sense we have something in common. My shackles are quite literal, but you appear to be wearing your own.

Deliver my sword and I will free us both.

XXX

l e t t e r t w o

𝒳𝒳𝒳,

𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓇𝑒𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓉 𝐼 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑒. 𝒴𝑜𝓊, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝒶𝓁𝓂𝓈. 𝑀𝑒, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈.

𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒶𝓅𝒽𝓎𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝑒𝓃𝒸𝒾𝓇𝒸𝓁𝑒 𝓂𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒹𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈? 𝒯𝑜 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓁𝓎, 𝐼 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒾𝒻 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜. 𝐼 𝒹𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜. 𝒩𝑒𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊.

𝒩𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝑜𝓌𝓃 "𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹𝑜𝓂" 𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎, 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓊𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈. 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒? 𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓀𝑒𝓅𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉.

𝒜𝓃𝓈𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒, 𝐼 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑔𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝑒𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓅𝑒.

𝒮𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎,

𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝐼 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝑒

[intrigued-stranger]

l e t t e r o n e

𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖃𝖃𝖃,

𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔. 𝕴 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜 𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖞 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖘. 𝕸𝖞 𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖒𝖊 𝕴'𝖒 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖘𝖔 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖞; 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖜𝖆𝖑𝖐 '𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊' 𝖆𝖘 𝖎𝖙 𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖊. 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖒𝖆𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓 𝖆𝖉𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖗, 𝖔𝖗 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖒𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖙 𝖆𝖑𝖑.

𝕭𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕶𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕹𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖓 𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚, 𝕴 𝖜𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊. 𝕴𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖋𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖑𝖞, 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖚𝖎𝖓. 𝕴 𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖋𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖒𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖑𝖞; 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖗𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘 𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖛𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖞 𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘, 𝖘𝖔 𝕴'𝖛𝖊 𝖓𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖊𝖝𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖏𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖜𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗.

𝕴 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖎𝖙. 𝕴'𝖒 𝖈𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓 𝖞𝖔𝖚'𝖉 𝖇𝖊 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖘𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖊 𝖎𝖗𝖔𝖓 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖑𝖊𝖘.

𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖒𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖇𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖉𝖔 𝖎𝖓 𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊?

𝕾𝖎𝖓��𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖑𝖞,

𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖚𝖊𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗