How it gladdens my heart to hear that even upon these foreign shores, and in these dire times of plague, you and Klim's son have found a shadow of home. I cannot say that this land echoes my own dear fatherland so strongly - indeed, I tire at the end of each day, so heavy is the burden of learning the ways of this race, all to hold together this facade I must bear. Yet even so, to have my dear Patroclus by my side in the house that we share, I feel as though I have come home.