9 January, 1362. Westerhaven Palace, Islia.
William shuffled the papers on his desk into piles, trying to put the most urgent documents in one corner. Camilla was always teasing him about his messiness. Despite that, he always got done what he needed to do in time, so why did tidiness really matter?
As he folded up a report, his eye was drawn to an unfamiliar sheet of parchment. Glancing at the handwriting, William realised it was a letter from Camilla's brother, the former Malcolm Stephenson. The letter was crammed with writing and notes along the margins, as if a simple sheet was never going to be enough to capture everything he wanted to tell her.
The siblings had been exchanging letters for months now, letters that always made Camilla smile and sometimes even laugh out loud.
