She watches his reaction carefully, noting the minute changes in him as he looks at it and even lifts it to smell it. It doesn't smell like anything that she can tell and she doesn't know what he would be expecting, but either way she hopes it's not a bad smell he's picking up. Still, when he lowers the letter again, she holds her hand out, willing to take it back from him given his unease.

"It wants me to steal something of value from someone else and set it at the base of the peach trees in the other village," she explains, her face twisting a bit. "I won't do it. Whatever it is they think they'll get from me, whatever 'reward' they might give, I won't be a willing participant of something that hurts someone else."

It's disgusting to her, the idea that they would even try to get someone to steal something. What's their motive? Chaos? Torment? Upheaval? Are they trying to break friendships or test moral boundaries? It makes no sense. No reward can be worth any of this.

"I've been trying to burn it, but so far it keeps coming back."