[Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey. Or a package for when you woke up. Inside are a pair of earrings with embedded rubies where the skin eyes are. There is also a bottle with preserved dark red cosmos flowers. Whatever lessons they had, have come to pass. Hopefully he can make this out with his progress.]
[He wonders why he got this, he doesn't see a reason for it, but when he reads the note that comes with it - slowly and with some effort of sounding things outloud - he finds that it's from Daria and for a genuinely kind reason. The dark reds remind him both of Hawke and Astarion, so he keeps them close, setting them on his bedside table.
He sends a short letter back, in a very careful but untrained and unskilled hand:]
December 25
To my good student,
For your hard work and your friendship.
Daria
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He sends a short letter back, in a very careful but untrained and unskilled hand:]
daria,
thank you for the gifts i will keep them close
sinsierely,
fenris
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Spelling and grammar aside, it was legible and that meant he understood what she wrote enough.]