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Date Posted: 09:48:16 01/22/02 Tue
Author: Ravin Rue
Subject: Houston, we have a problem

"You must be crazy," Rowan said as he set the writing paraphernalia on the ground.

Ravin looked from the elf to the words he had written on the slate. Maybe I am. Why did he feel such a need to write Kyri a letter anyway? Within days of their separation, he had a vision of her with another man and sensed the deep feelings she held for him that seemed to speak of love. How could she have fallen in love with someone else so quickly? Perhaps she never truly loved me to begin with. That would explain why she had gotten over him so fast while he still found himself thinking about her quite often.

He wrote out the words, I must be crazy upon the slate, smiling at the expert penmanship he now possessed. Since he never wrote a letter before, he decided that his first one should be to his adopted mother. Ravin erased the previous text from the slate, replacing it with the words, Dear Minnow. Under that he wrote, My dear beloved, mother Minnow. Amazing! Reading and writing was a lot easier that he ever imagined it would be.

Once he decided that Dear Mother Minnow, was the proper way to begin the letter, he replaced the slate with a sheet of parchment. Eagerly, he dipped the quill into the ink, set it to the paper, and paused. Suddenly, he wasn't sure how the word dear was spelled. His eyes narrowed when he realized he was no longer certain of the letters that made up his mother's name as well.

After setting the quill aside, he picked up the slate and chalk, and wrote out a half dozen complex words with ease. Smiling, he took up the quill again, hesitating when his ability to spell seemed to vanish at that moment. The smile faded from his face. He glanced at the perfectly formed, correctly spelled words on the slate, which had been so easy to write.

Ravin stared at the word dear then copied each letter he saw on the slate to the paper. Once again his writing looked like chicken scrawl! Frustrated now, he gulped down some ale, dropped the quill, and went back to writing perfectly on the slate with the chalk. His eyes shifted to Saras, who sat across from him, talking to Jeremy. I should have known not to trust magic, he thought.

"It seems there's a little problem with that wish you granted," Ravin called out, drawing the genie's attention. "I can read and write perfectly when I use the slate and chalk I had in my hand when the fire hit me. But, as soon as I try to use quill and parchment, my mind goes blank, and I'm back to not knowing how to spell or write out letters correctly."

Jeremy cringed at the thief's words then threw a comforting arm around Saras. His infatuation with Marz was temporarily forgotten because he was too busy being concerned about his new friend. "I'm sure that the next wish you grant will work perfectly," he said, patting the genie on his arm and giving him an encouraging smile.

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