Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. Bren.

[Linnea Stensrud]

Dear Brendan,

I truly hope hope this letter finds you well, I heard you were not coming back to school. As you can imagine I was so disappointed I'd not be seeing you this year, until the holidays at least. I do hope we'll meet up in the holidays?

I'd very much like to hear from you, what you're doing now you're no longer studying and what kind of work you'd be looking for. It must be exciting not being at school, I hope you're liking the change, I know how much you loved to learn. 

Perhaps it's better you weren't here, some of the students were killed, it was a little while ago now but it's still serious, scary, my younger sister was distraught by it. 

Hope per to hear from you soon, 
love Linn x

Brendan Burke

[Brendan Burke]

Dear Linn,

The letter has find me which has surprised me since I travel a lot lately around England, I’m sorry for leaving so sudden but something rather important came up between school and me which forced me to quit school after last year. I would love to see you during the holidays and I’ll be sure to visit you at your home after asking your father for permission.

I’m like I wrote before traveling England for quite some time now, seeing different places and trying to do as much as I can since father asked me to do so. I heard about the killing indeed and I’m sorry to hear your sister had to see that, it must have been horrible.

I can’t wait to see you,
Love Brendan x

[Linnea Stensrud]

Brenden,

I'll admit to being considerably lighter hearted after hearing from you! After our study before the start of term, in divination, if you remember, I was worried something might have happened to you afterall! But now I know it was unneeded worry, and it is such a relief.
I am still worried, since around the time of our study togetheri'be been having dreams, and even visions, I'm sure they're silly nothing's, or perhaps due to the heat over summer, but the thought has crossed my mind they may be visions of the future, I've been hoping to ask someone' so pinion of it, but there's no one in my familywho'd take the divination discipline seriously enough for this. I'd be much a lighted ifyou'd she
Are your thoughts?

On a much less serious note, I'll ask you to indulge me and tell me about your travels? I've always dreamt of traveling, and apart from the scarce family trip I've never gone anywhere. Forgive me if its out of place to say, but I'd very much like to travel together once our engagement is official.

Love Linn

[Brendan Burke]

Linn,

I’m sorry I didn’t wrote a letter or any other form of communication to let you know that I wasn’t returning to school, a lot happened and it was just the best possible choice to quit before things would go wrong. I am really glad to hear you’ve been dreaming and seeing things and I’m sure that that is something rather special isn’t it? did you spoke with the divination professor to see what he thinks about it. Maybe you’re actually creating something special, wouldn’t that be great?!

My adventures have been wonderful, I’ve seen parts of Scotland I’ve never seen before, met lots of new people and spoke with so many people. It is so much more excited than it was before and I would love to travel together once it is official. We can ask your father if you like at any time when you think it would be the right moment.

Love Brendan

[Linnea Stensrud]

Brendan,

It's quite alright, I know how difficult it is to find the time to write a letter. Schools quite busy for myself too.
I desperately hope my dreams and visions aren't special, they're all so violent and bloody. It must be worry, though many of them are of the people I'm with, when I'm around them but I see you a lot too. I think I might just be worried about you. I feel like it's been a lifetime since we last met and I miss you dearly. I also fear people may think I'm mad. I'm having a hard time controlling myself because this seems so constant, and I've been getting frightfully bad headaches.

I do love Scotland, I'd love to go to warmer parts, I have an interest in traveling to India and the Americas and perhaps even going to see some of the islands around the equator they're said to be lovely and warm.

About our engagement. I do think we will have to wait another three years, perhaps more. Laila's nineteen now and only just getting engaged. Hopefully my father will ah e many opportunities to meet with you before my sixteenth and allow it that year - which would be a dream come true.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Love Linn

[Brendan Burke]

Linn,

I’m sure it is nothing you should worry about, we’ll see about what the visions really are and I’m sure that everything is fine. It definitely feels like a lifetime since we met but do not worry as we soon reach the vacation where we can enjoy a lot of time.

I’ve only seen the colder parts of Scotland and I would love to go out of Europe though I think it would have to wait a long long time. As well as our engagement indeed, just another three years which isn’t that long if you think about it if you see the time we would have after the engagement.

Love Brendan