Book 4: Chapter 32
My dear sister,
I write to you with a woefully heavy heart. I am unsure how the machinations of official communications will transpire, but I did not want you learning this news from any source other than me.
We have not had the closest of relationships growing up, but as an adult now, I realize that family is everything. That now includes the man you have chosen to marry. The man I at one time viewed as a cursed enemy, but that I now view as a brother and friend.
This makes it all the harder to write this.
Fia, I do not know how else to express this, but as of an hour ago, I have learned that Max died upon the Hell World of Fhae I’ung. The only surviving member was the Senior Commander, a man named Jei Su Long of the Twin River Sect, whom I do not trust.
He and his uncle Tai Su Long, a Governor of the Lu Shuisystem, has been targeting Max for some time. He has returned with a story that Max turned against his own men, killing them all in order for the princess of your world to receive a great reward.
My sister, if you hear these vile things, do not believe them!
I have grown to know your Max and he is a man of honor. I have all reason to believe, but no proof, that the Senior Commander Jei Su Long is both behind this story and Max’s death and indeed that of his entire platoon.