To: Royal Takasia Foreign Relations
From: Jutensa's Minister of Foreign Relations
We would never wish to offend you by refusing a gift with such sincere intent, and thus we will accept your offer. Thank you for your continuing support and well wishes.
Yours,
Carlotta Bianchi
To: Aram Caros, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
Salah Qen, Economics Committee Chairwoman
From: Jutensa's Minister of Foreign Relations
The shipment of millet will aid us greatly and will be greeted with heartfelt appreciation. We welcome it with open arms; it will allow out people to eat well this winter and into the spring.
Our Embassy Complex is scheduled to be finished in six days' time. We would be more than pleased to welcome your ambassadors as the first sent to our nation in the opening ceremony. Our delegation will fly in to your capitol after the ceremony, to be received the same day. More information will be sent to you as to their nature and number.
Again, our most sincere thanks. We hope to some day repay your generosity when you are in need.
Yours,
Carlotta Bianchi
The manner in which the scientists from New Delfos chose to depart was viewed with much suspicion. Those remaining saw the Delfians' failure to so much as meet with their overseers to discuss their departure as an offense almost too grave to dismiss. Projects impacting several nations left half-done and experiments to save something as important as the very food stock of Jutensa and her neighbors abandoned in favor of an intellectual conference? To go back on one's pledge of assistance for the sake of archaeological curiosity? It was unthinkable and sent the entire scientific community into an uproar.
It was into this chaos that a ray of hope shone down. One of the Gallipoli-Chinese scientists ran into Minister Tobayashi's office, his face red with excitement and the run from Lab 14. "We have it, we have the cure!"
"What?" Aoshi asked blankly, not quite ready to believe lest it be a false hope. "What do you mean, we have it?"
"The last experiment, it had a 93% success rate! The crops rejected the virus and stayed healthy! There isn't a scrap of SRV left in them!"
At this, Aoshi's somber look brightened into a fierce grin and he leapt out of his chair to bolt out of the room, rushing past a startled Ping on his way out. He really looked himself at moments like these, running full tilt through the halls to Lab 14 to personally verify the results.
