Short letter from England

Greetings.

I don’t want to alarm you, but I’m writing this to you because I haven’t heard from Percy for a while. I know that I should be used to it; it’s not like this is the first time that he’s been unable to send mail while he’s out there, alone in the wild. He’s already endured so much, and I believe in him and his success. Well, I must believe, because I swear – every time he’s back from there, I feel like he leaves a piece of himself there – so I worry, because I don’t know if he could take yet another failure.