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Krakentown, Western Australia

August 21

My dearest brother,

I’ve enclosed a duplicate of my latest serial adventure. As you can see by the pages, you no longer need to send me a new typesetting machine. Helene recently sent to me everything that I’d left behind in the quarantine, and I’ve been writing like a madwoman ever since. The story line is a departure from my usual tale, and features a tinker instead of an adventurer, but I believe you will enjoy it. And if you don’t, I will know you for a complete idiot and never speak to you again.

Oh! but my silence would only last until you come and visit me. You will find me much changed since you saw me last. I was in love then, and happy, but the size of that love and happiness is nothing compared to what they are now. My husband is like the most wonderful story I’ve ever read. Every part contains something new, and even when I think I know a passage by heart, I inevitably discover something that I hadn’t noticed before when I read it again. I keep turning the pages, and turning the pages, wanting to learn everything about him, yet so grateful I will never reach the end, and that there will always be another page to turn.

But I must get back to it now. Another story awaits—one from my pen, and the amazing one that is my life. And this time, if I were to give my adventure a title, I will know exactly what to call myself.

With all of my love,

The Kraken Queen

Meljean Brook
lives near Portland, Oregon, with her family.