Ah, Cousin Zoya, family is never inconvenient. Well, OK...is no true. HA! Sometimes is.
But your coming is no inconvenient, nor would be your sheltering on gypsy rowe. But There are things you must know.
The rowe may be deserted when you arrive. We Rom and our kin the Besche have had to attend to the defense of the Wyldes,and is no yet clear what shall be the state of things upon your arrival. Even in the best of times, the local humans often hate all who are no human. If one of them tries to make you wear a wooden bauble as a symbol of your inferiority, bear in mind that giving him the curse he has asked for will get you arrested, and then no end of trouble for the rest of us.
But such dire warnings are a poor welcome.Let us leave it so: You family and our kin the beshche shall greet you with joy when finally we meet, and together a place shall be found for you to rest; But if we have not yet returned when you arrive in Kupspar, do not long lower your guard.
Say to them: "I come to meet a magnificent being called Teo, whom all admire, that I may learn the way of the blades, and hear from him my future." If they scoff, you will know them for witless fools. Smile prettily, and spin them a yarn, and they will cast coin at your feet.
Ha! Then when we meet you will tell me of my family beyond the mists.
Teovel deTomros Viatsa
PS. This remember above all: If you meet a fell being, black with red eyes, DO NOT BARGAIN WITH IT, WHATEVER IT OFFERS OR THREATENS!
Teo.
(oog: Scott Auden)