To the attention of one Crowchar of Mexihco:

My name is Dr. Sabbatine of Byzantium. I have need of you and can pay handsomely. Enclosed, please find funds and paperwork necessary for your journey, and an advance upon your first paycheck.

My decision to seek your employment is complex but not arbitrary. You are, of course, a good shot and capable rider, but more important, you possess a keen eye and a skeptical mind, a trait rare in Byzantium despite my city's belief in the alleged "virtue" of hard-nosed cynicism.

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To this end, and due to your own circumstances, which I know are desperate through no fault of your own, I hope that you will reply to this letter and begin the long journey to Byzantium, that you may guard my greatest—and perhaps last—experiment from those who would see such work destroyed.

Sincerely,

Dr. Euphrasia I Sabbatine of Byzantium

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