MPPC: Messages in a bottle, PG-13 (#49)

[Seek]

Title: Messages in a bottle
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Letters, (#49)
Character/Couple/Theme: Mattes/Sabine
Series: Caged Dog
Summary: Letters across the years, some unsent.
Notes: This is sort of a Mastiff AU. Therefore, spoilers for Mastiff. Kind of.

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Dear Sabine,

Thank you for the warm posset and the brazier. It’s looking to be the coldest winter in Corus that I can remember. My legs ache sometimes.

Yours,
Mattes.

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Mattes,
Keep warm. I am quite well.
Lady Knight Sabine of Macayhill and Princehold.

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Dear Sabine,

The roses are dying. I think the cold’s killing them, though there’s not much a cove can do. I’ve been keeping them next to the brazier in the hopes they’ll survive. It ought to be warmer in the hill country.

Yours,
Mattes.

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Mattes,
I’ve left the hill country.
Lady Knight Sabine of Macayhill and Princehold.

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Dear Sabine,

You were right. I should have asked you. I won’t ask for forgiveness. Child killers don’t deserve any.

Be happy.

Always yours,
Mattes Tunstall.

[max]

I find a lot of letter fics get really overt and can come off quite heavy handed.

So I loved how you left emotion implied in these. It was not only realistic but also so effective, while at the same time remaining really delicate, and quite beautiful.

[housewife]

Mm, what Max said. Sabine's letters say a lot, in very few words. Mattes' break my heart.