During the two months since Bhelir had become the ambassador of the Featherheel in Boughshade Town, he had had to learn much about the profession, considering how ill-equipped he had been when he had started. He was starting to get a hang of it, and had realised that all he really had to do was maintain relations and observe. He had already written to Aryyna once to inform her of how things in the Boughshade Clan were going, financially and politically; he’d also attached a personal letter, in which he had told her how he was doing and asked her how father was. He dreaded the answer, but had to know.
The beginning of his stay had been