Dear Anushka
His highness Marcus Atolis is truly as brilliant as the stories have claimed he is. I have traveled to the new capital at his summons and have been chosen as on of twenty sculptors to create sixteen gate statues. It is a competition with each sculptor creating quarter sized versions and the best to be done in full for the gates. With this letter, and his majesty's charity, I will be arriving home shortly by skyship. For the competition we shall be moving the workshop to the new capitol, with the building to house us being built now to our needs! I know you shall miss the mountains, but the sea here is quite breathtaking and His Majesty has promised to pay for our safe return as well.
Oh the great news never ceases! In passing I mentioned the collapse of the Southern wellspring and His Majesty has decided to sent an entire engineering division to rebuild it for our village.