I crossed the study to my desk a danty little thing that was more for show then use it looked like. Finding paper ink and a quill I went to work writting first a letter to my father requesting his help in searching his lands then finishing that and sealing it with a drop of maroon wax and a press of my seal I started to work on the letter to my overseer outlining what I wanted done in detail. If there was even the slightest chance the Empress was in the lands I held she would be found. Feeling better now that the letters were finished I summoned a servent to have them sent by runner as soon as possable.