Dear Risa,

  Girl, you should have been here today. Ok. I have to get back to Goldvale, only for you to join me as I go to request an audience with the king.

  So! We got to Default yesterday. This morning Cali and I got all Official-looking, got our papers in order, and went to see the queen. The person at the front desk, as is his duty, told us to fill out a bunch of paperwork, and we’ll find out if we can have an audience with the queen within a week.

  I informed him that, no, we’d find out when we can speak to the queen now. And turned on my gold magic.

  I am enjoying this far too much.

  Maybe I’ll take over a city. Use my divine power to make myself queen. That’d be fun. If I did that, I could hire you to be my Royal Advisor! You love telling me what to do, so I’d hardly have to bribe you to come at all.

  Anyhow, the guy compleeetly panicked and ran off, and half an hour later we were escorted into the throne room.

  The queen’s a nice lady. She listened to what we had to say, then sent us to a room full of important people to say it all again. They had questions, we answered, and by lunchtime everything was in motion. Easy. I bet none of the other Chosen people get taken this seriously.

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  Well, Luke said he was taken pretty seriously. Apparently he and Maki did a whole speech thing, then the head priest checked that the gold wasn’t an illusion or anything, and then they got taken to a conference room to explain everything in detail.

  Sooo yeah. Our job is pretty much done now. We warned everyone. Yay us.

  It really did help that Cali figured out something was wrong like two weeks ago. I mean, glowing gold eyes is one thing, but a list of dates proving earthquakes are becoming more frequent is hard for bureaucrats to ignore.

  And let’s see, where did I leave off last time I wrote… I’m sure nothing else important has happened since then. I mean, meeting the queen of a city is the highlight of any normal citizen’s life, compared to that everything else is boring.

  Saving the world through paperwork and board meetings? Yep, that’s all the excitement I need. What could possibly top that?

  Sure, Luke and I went on a date last night, just us, and it was absolutely amazing, but I’m sure you don’t want any boring details. You don’t like gossip and hate romance, right? So I can just not bother telling you anything about it. That’s why I put all the stuff about what I did this morning first, cuz I know you won’t be interested that I officially have a boyfriend now.

  Funny, I can see you glaring at me from the future. Clear as day. Your eyes are narrow, and you’ve got that scrunch thing going on with your nose. One ear flick… now. Claws are out…

  My oh my, Risa dear, I’m suddenly very tired! I guess you’ll never know any of the details, what a shame, well, goodnight!

  Unapologetic Regards,

  Maeve Zee