Dearest Helen,

I wish you were here. Your strength is missed, as well as needed. I will not allow your memory to be dishonored. I will redeem my self. I will prove my worth. I have dishonored your Reynaldo. You were right not all foreigners are looking to take advantage of us. This little Vodacce man is almost all I have to remember you by. I can't help but think that I should have been with you that day. And I wish father were still alive to hear of your tale. Helen Rienhoff who fought a Drachen! He always said it would take a Drachen to stop you. He was right.

Well I take your Reynaldo's cause for my own. He and his friends are now my new company. I will not dishonor them and hopefully one day make right the dishonor I have caused Reynaldo. Now I sit in the Imperators palace, the guest of Eisenfurst Stefan Heilgrund. I hope I will be helpful to my new comrades in arms in their endeavors here.

Volker Reinhoff