-From Johannes, Summer 1222
+From Johannes, Summer 1224
-> To the respected Mathieus of House Jerbiton, Johannes Roth sends greetings and good wishes:
+> To Iudecum ex Guernicus, Senior Quaesitor of the Stonehenge Tribunal, Johannes sends respectful greetings:
+>
+> My sodales and I recently chanced to discover in the pursuit of other goals
+> that a Gifted individual had been living in secret some few miles downriver from
+> Cambridge.
>
-> My friend Alexios has spoken much of your wisdom and understanding, and thus, being
-> unsure where else I might turn, I am venturing to contact you in this matter, and hope
-> that you will not take it amiss that I have done so, whether you are able or willing
-> to help, or not.
+> The shocking aspect of this encounter was that the individual in question was
+> protected by something that seemed like, and turned out to be, the Parma Magica.
>
-> I have reached that age wherein a man begins to consider marriage and the continuation
-> of his line. Sadly, owing to the strain in my relationship with my father, Baron Roth,
-> the origin of which lies in the irregularity of my conception, I find myself unable,
-> to seek his advice - or at least unwilling to do so and reopen old wounds.
->
-> I know you have many claims on your time, but I am hoping nonetheless that you might
-> be able to offer me some advice on how I might proceed; I would be most grateful no
-> matter how much or how little.
+> It transpired that they had once been an Hermetic apprentice, but that their
+> parens had cast them forth with their training incomplete - and had most foolishly
+> allowed them to learn the Parma before they did this!
+>
+> The apprentice in question is not of sweet disposition, but did most willingly
+> swear the Oath in my presence and that of my sodales, and has pledged himself
+> to abide by its tenets; it is clear that he needs to be admitted into one of
+> the Houses, but now past the crisis, I must confess that I do not know the
+> correct protocol and procedures to follow.
+>
+> I enclose a full report on the matter, which I hope you will be able to
+> appropriately pursue.
>
> Yours with respect,
>