Again, an artfully letter is delivered by izam to Mac'Od Bittty:
Dear Mac'Od Bittty,
please excuse this quickly composed note, but I am unfortunately very busy at the moment. Hope you can read it anyway.
Thank you for your recent letter. I haven't heard from Filira Cuiccio yet, so don't have anything new to tell you. I had a quick look through my notes, though, as I wondered if I had misinterpreted what the Royal botanist said regarding roots and Rotoas. I wrote down a quote in the dialect he fancied that day, which reads "De totue façon, ce n'est pas qu'une question de racine.. Les Rotoas tiennent à distance les Kitins.. elles infusent quelque chose dans le sol, semble t-il". As it is with dialects, I had to ask for a correct interpretation, but if I am not completely mistaken, this means that "it has nothing to do with the roots. The Rotoas keep the Kitins away ... they evolve something into the soil, it seems". This still leaves room for interpretation, of course, but implies that some substance is dispensed probably by the blossoms or stems of the plant, not the roots, and that it has nothing to do with bad taste - especially as the heavily thorned roots are too hard to consume and pretty difficult to cut through anyway. Studies of that phenomenon for us all will be much easier if we finally got rid of the Kitins, of course.
As you spend plenty of time in the field, so to say: Is the reaction of the regular Kitins - which at some spots are almost as much a harassment as the white ones from the deep - accordingly? Are they similar distracted, drugged, behaving irregular? I can't be out today, nor probably in the next few days, but maybe you already have experiences to share?
Best in haste -
Dear Mac'Od Bittty,
please excuse this quickly composed note, but I am unfortunately very busy at the moment. Hope you can read it anyway.
Thank you for your recent letter. I haven't heard from Filira Cuiccio yet, so don't have anything new to tell you. I had a quick look through my notes, though, as I wondered if I had misinterpreted what the Royal botanist said regarding roots and Rotoas. I wrote down a quote in the dialect he fancied that day, which reads "De totue façon, ce n'est pas qu'une question de racine.. Les Rotoas tiennent à distance les Kitins.. elles infusent quelque chose dans le sol, semble t-il". As it is with dialects, I had to ask for a correct interpretation, but if I am not completely mistaken, this means that "it has nothing to do with the roots. The Rotoas keep the Kitins away ... they evolve something into the soil, it seems". This still leaves room for interpretation, of course, but implies that some substance is dispensed probably by the blossoms or stems of the plant, not the roots, and that it has nothing to do with bad taste - especially as the heavily thorned roots are too hard to consume and pretty difficult to cut through anyway. Studies of that phenomenon for us all will be much easier if we finally got rid of the Kitins, of course.
As you spend plenty of time in the field, so to say: Is the reaction of the regular Kitins - which at some spots are almost as much a harassment as the white ones from the deep - accordingly? Are they similar distracted, drugged, behaving irregular? I can't be out today, nor probably in the next few days, but maybe you already have experiences to share?
Best in haste -
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
Royal Historian
Member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis
First Seraph of the Order of the Argo Navis