182 - Messages

Chapter Type: Social

Narrator: Wa Fenya

"This is just inefficient." I said.

"Please elaborate." Lord Xho sighed.

"If every message comes here, then it seems that one messenger can carry a box of scrolls to a single destination."

"What about urgent messages?" asked Pharmacist Hwa.

"They're scrolls." I explained.  "Different priority messages, use different color wax seals, or different colored tassels.  You could even seal them in scroll carriers with the word 'urgent' written on the outside."

"Ridiculous." Lord Xho said.  "If the couriers become able to take low priority messages as well, how long is it before every pair of separated soldiers are sending poems or lewd jokes to each other?  The system would collapse under the sheer volume of banal communications."