Alexios' letter

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+Being an approach to Junius of Verditius and polite inquery about
+massy terram books.
+
+From Alexios, Summer 1217:
+> To the esteemed Junius of Verditius, Senior Magus of the Covenant of Semitae, Doctor Alexios Constantine, Magus of the Schola Pythagoranis and Magus Ex Miscellanea, sends greetings on this, the twentieth day of July in the twelve hundred and seventeenth year of our Lord. 
+> 
+> I feel some trepidation in approaching you, an eminent member of the House that my parens once was a member of. I am not aware of what it was that my parens did to be declared Orbus and, in all honesty, I have no desire to know even if you do. He is my parens and my friend and I owe him much. His teaching has broadened my understanding of this world in ways I would never have thought possible when I was solely a philosopher and scholar. I make this avowal in advance as it seems to me that truth and honesty must come first in any arrangement of friendship and collegial spirit. Such an arrangement I would like to enter into. 
+> 
+> I do this for all the normal reasons of one of our Order, the desire to learn, to understand, to build. But I also do this out of respect for you and your house which is the one I wish in many ways I had been part of. My ambitions and desires in magic are ones borne out of the house that my magic is linked to and while I will not criticise my parens, I would reach out to those of his former house in amity and the hope that, whatever caused his dismissal from the house, you would be willing to consider me in friendship and brotherhood. 
+> 
+> I also have two specific questions that I wished to pursue. Firstly, I am told that few if any in this tribunal match you in the field of the magic of the earth. I too am interested in this field and wondered if you or your covenant would by any chance have the text known as the branch of this magic. If you did, what might I do or provide that would be of sufficient value that you would you be willing to allow me a copy. 
+> 
+> Secondly, and far more speculatively, I wondered if you had heard of any summa texts on the magic of control that I might pursue. I am unaware of a book of the quality of a branch of this magic but I am sure that you would be more likely than I to have heard of books of the sort of quality I seek. 
+> 
+> With best wishes for the continued health of both yourself and your covenant, I remain, sir, yours in friendship and amity; Alexios. \r
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