[After the e-mail from Duncan.]

Morvarid,

This is a personal matter, so I hope you'll forgive the lack of formality. A good friend of mine was blinded recently. Could you help her learn to move around and maybe provide some self-defense pointers? If you would rather not, I understand.

Thank you.

Lera

[It feels weird using her first name still. But rank feels like the wrong thing to use, too, given the nature of the request.]