Olaf Jarnsida To His Father: Greetings! I am well if you are well...the gods willing, you are happy. I have found someone to write this, I cannot ask Philandros to do it...and no one in the house I can ask who won't talk. I miss you. And Spurius who is so smart. For so long, I did not have a father--now that I do, I have spent so little time with you! I wish you could be with me all the time, but this can't be. Now I have memories of both you and mother, and can't be with either of you...would it have been better not to have met? My heart is pained at the thought. Do I say it, or not? What you have found--someone who loves you--is what I most dearly wish for! How easy it must have been for you--young, free to wander, and knowing what you sought--while for me it is very different! I know so few people here, am not free to go where I wish, and yet, what I want, I cannot have! To have found him, and be unsuited for him--it is unfair. He could have no interest in a boy who cannot read or write! Write when you can--I hope to hear from you soon. Odin and Thor protect you!