Caspian's Letter

Sophia's POV

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, eight months after Soren was born, in Caspian's handwriting — which I recognized immediately, the precise, organized letters of a man who had always been exactly as ordered on paper as he was in person.

I opened it in my study, at the desk that had been Leonidas's and was now mine, in the morning hour before the council correspondence began.

He wrote the way he did everything: directly, without decoration. He described the east ...