Hilde Ironhand 4

A series played using Quill: Coal & Parchment and Quill Quest: The Warlord's Downfall. This post is published under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence.

The Elven Princess

A letter ghost-written by Hilde on behalf of a Prince in need and delivered by hand.

Beloved Princess Elenda,

When you visited the Court these past weeks I was so entranced by your beauty. I longed to speak with you but the loathsome tyrannical King forbade me. Thus I send this missive to you in the hope of wooing you from afar.

I beseech you to look within your heart to find if my flame of passion is mirrored therein. If so, I would ask you to elope with haste with me to the Shimmering Lands. There we could be together and start a new life.

Truly you are the fairest of all elvenkind and the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Would that we could be together, the half-even offspring of our union would be enchanting to behold. And I'm sure we'd find our dynasty to be just and fair rulers of the Shimmering Lands.

I lie awake each night since your departure, struggling in vain to recall the vibrancy of your beauty. Alas, like the delicate sun orchid, the memory of your face fades in the long winter of your absence. Would that you would return to me that I might know spring again.

One final time, Elenda, I ask you to be with me. Your fair skin will shimmer with the light of the... Shimmering Lands. Together we shall shine our love for all to see.

Yours eternally

Winslow Herrington, Prince of Cornbury

Under Hilde's pen the Prince comes off far too much like a desperate stalker for Princess Elenda's taste. She questions Hilde until she's sure that Winslow merely chose his ghost-writer poorly and Hilde is not a potential kidnapper. Hilde is released with a small amount of compensation and vows never to ghost write another love letter as long as she lives.