Tresa found parchment and writing utensils on the small desk in her room once she arrived back from the kitchen. Lunch was light and her stomach did not hurt her during that meal. Tresa hoped that it was a good sign that her stomach was beginning to take food a bit easily. Tresa pulled the wooden chair out and sat down at the desk. She tapped the dip pen on her chin as she thought about how to start it. She wrote for some time. She only had to start over once when she had given away too much. She did not want to worry her mother or upset her father. The main point that she wanted to get to them was that she had secured employment and was working with the man who gave her the position. Tresa worried if her father would suspect that there was something more to the relationship between he

