Letter 7025: I debated for some time whether to honor you with a letter while properly waiting for your return.

A long deliberation held me back, as to whether I ought to pay you my respects while a justified expectation of your return was at hand. For I feared that your haste might be broken by comforts met along the way. But the opposite consideration resolved this uncertainty, since it gave hope that this letter would serve, for one returning, as a spur rather than as a bridle. Yet by design I offer you brevity alone, delivering merely a word of greeting, so that the scant draught of my words may be more effective at provoking your thirst than at satisfying it. Farewell.