You've quite got the hang of it, no call to worry upon that count. It's a strange sort of informality that these call for, isn't it? Nothing at all like a letter.

[ Felix shrugs, with a languid smile. He doesn't have the faintest idea what a telegram is, but for the comparison, it's not difficult to guess. ]

Peculiar, too, the sorts of things that persist between worlds. I'm no deft hand at the game -- [ That's one way to put "unsure of half the rules, likely to upend the board when frustrated". ] -- But I much doubt that you'll lack for opponents. Sometimes it seems that sport and metaphors are all we have between us.