Letters From the Cascade, Angel Daweson [best books for students to read .txt] 📗

Letters From the Cascade

Dear Javari 11/17
Well it’s me… Rudolph. How are things on the front lines? I'm stuck here in Convent hearing more and more about the war and how the deaths of many of the Markers of the Cascade… You’re okay right? I miss you I wish I was with you…Well I wish you were safe. All of the other Clerics have been constantly complaining and moralizing about how we haven’t done anything yet and how Lineia abandoned us at our time of need… I don’t believe that but still I think I should be out there with you. I don’t want to be stuck in Convent just praying and doing nothing. We even gave up our Alchemical Study just to sit in the Chapel and hear Father Howard scold us about our lack of caring. He says “Our true cause is here serving Our Lady Lineia and helping our brothers the Markers by prayer and keeping up our spirits. They depend on us as much as we do them and were failing them in our duty by praying to BE there not keeping them our prayers” I just rolled my eyes and sighed as we beat ourselves for the war martyrs and the dead civilians whose lives were destroyed by the Rovmaninovs and their demented means of torture. Like I said before I don’t WANT to sit around and pray over it I want to DO something about it! I want to HELP you and I want to free us from this Lady-forsaken place. It has me wishing that I never would have taken up Alchemy and stayed with you… Telling you this, getting it off of my chest. It feels good. I really, really miss you Jay. Come back safe
Rudolph
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Rudy, 11/24
Hey there! It’s good to hear from you Rudolph. Yeah things are getting bad out here on the front I'm watching our people…People I know well and like, my friends, die in front of me and every time I do I die a little inside every time I hear the news. Each day there’s more and more people that leave our ranks and their letters are read to us at their funeral Now granted we don’t normally find their bodies and if we DO their just mangled torn husks that the War Tigers left behind after they ate their fill of our brothers.. I shuddered at first but now I'm just numb to it. When I watched Sergio being brought back in pieces my heart shattered in ways that I hoped it would only shatter at the time of your death. Many a day has passed and I had hoped you would write to me and now I see you have and I'm so happy to write you back. Apparently I got it about a week after you wrote me. I'm surprised to see how early yours arrived. I’ve seen letters arrive almost 3 months after the date of the mailing. Were fairly close to a city right now, uhm…Amalai I think it is…? Well all I know is its contested territory in the Megiddo Bastion. I'm glad I got your letter when I did Rudy… I was just about to give myself up for dead when I heard I had a letter and I knew it was from you. It gives me hope that I will one day get home. I will one day get out of here and see you…See your smiling face again. Heh, you say you hate Convent but it sounds a WHOLE lot better than a damp cot on cold snowy ground, a feeble fire, hardtack and gruel.
P.S. Ask Your leader at Convent what hardtack and gruel is… You will NOT like it I promise you.
Javari Marcelle


Dear Javari 12/5
Eww! It seems terrible, I'm glad you’re safe for now though. You seem well but hardtack and gruel? What is that a wartime disease? Haha just kidding I asked for it at breakfast this morning and I was appalled at the…well how HARD it was! It didn’t even break when I threw it against the wall. It reminds me of the old rhyme the Markers used to say when we were kids. Remember? “They say that in the army the food is mighty fine? Well my bread fell off the table and it bruised a friend of mine. No I don’t want no more of army life. Gee ma I wanna go back to the land I know. Gee ma I wanna go home.” I remember annoying the MESS out of you with it! I apologize seeing as I see how TRUE it is now. Gruel wasn’t that bad but I cant imagine eating it every day….And I put sugar and honey in it which I doubt you have. I hated the idea of army life but I remember how much you loved it and how much I wished I could be with you all the time there while you were off learning sword-fighting, horseback riding, and armor making I was off learning alchemy, herbalism, and spell casting. I sighed at the thought of the ONE thing that always made me different than you. Our friendship outlasted all of it and I wish that the Cruixus War would end so you could come home. Who all that I knew before is dead? Anyone of detriment? When I heard about Sergio I cried for hours and still have the bruises from it.
Rudolph
Rudy, 12/17
Hah ha, Yeah I wish that hardtack WAS a warzone disease. That would make me feel a lot better about my chances.. Yes it does sound like the old rhyme and I remember it SO well. You would sing the song so much it made me feel like I was not even going to TRY to go into the army if it was true. Well…Yeah it is true. The tea, food, tents, marching. All of it You made me so mad I remember I used to push you off the swings and when you would cry and try to hold it back and blush as I taunted you… I feel bad for it now but as it seems YOU were the one that was right not me…Do you remember how you would yell and scream the run right back into my arms when you saw a spider? Ahh I miss that I bore it all the time so I could hear you whine and complain. You know quite a few of the Markers found dead.. Caspian, Martin, Layle, and Horatio are some of the ones I mention. No one died yesterday though which was a first. We took out battalion after battalion as they came at us. I thank you and blame you for it all. It’s the hope you gave me. I try my best to stay happy and healthy for everyone but now I have a reason to do so. I have to say this because even though I may not write for a while you HAVE to know. I love you Rudy you’re my best friend
Javari Marcelle
Dear Javari, 1/20
Oh wow … I love you too Javari. Your letters brihten my day. Im glad that mine find you and that when I write you see what I say. The Rovmaninov animals don’t deserve to live on our land. They don’t deserve to live period… A couple of Alchemists ran off yesterday to see if they can join the Markers. More people are deserting their homes and families every day to commit to a cause that no one really wants to fight for. Our honor isnt worth you dying over, but don’t fret. I wont leave I know you wouldn’t have it. A friend of mine Eldan left today to run messages and I gave him this for you. I keep wondering if I’ll ever get word back from you about it… Youre so far from me and its saddenning to think that youre almost asking to die… I hope I can see you one more time but I wouldn’t leave Convent iunless I had to. Its open season on Cristailians now.
Rudolph

Rudy

2/13
Oh may Lineia save us if thats the case. No matter what happens STAY IN CONVENT! DOnt go outside unless strictly instructed and make sure you never go anywhere alone. Dont et anything happen to yourself that would kill me inside. But dont worry, Im fine! None of the Markers of the Cascade have truly deserted or changed sides as the rumos say. Oh! I didnt tell you! I was promoted and Im a Corporal Marker now. That meas Im a better fighter and rider than I was before. I also have a company I lead and they follow my orders implicitly, its a big responsibility but I really enjoy it. I miss you.. alot. More people are dying every day and the headaches that come with my job dont help the greif. But then I see your letters and then I feel so much better. I wish I could come home but the Rovmaninov's are poring into the Bastion at such a pace that it makes it almost impossible to hold them off. We've had a few skirmishes and a few big battles but the severity comes in the minor things... Dysentery and hunger are the two most catagorical killers. No matter what I do I see my people, friends, and countrymen slaughtered left and right. It makes me want to rip the heads off the Rovmaninov's with my bear hands. Oh Rudy... May Lineia deliver us. I want to go home...


Javari Marcelle

Text: I, Angel Daweson, do copyright the characters Rudolph Thomas and Javari Marcelle and the terms Lineia, Cristail, and Rovmaninov and any of their affiliations. Any use of copyrighted items has been done with the permission of the orriginal creator.
Publication Date: 12-07-2011

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Dedication:
To my friends Autumn and Ari who always believed that my worlds could come to life before my very eyes... "Have the courage to try! You may fail but at least you have made teh effort!"