We're two days ahead of schedule. It's been a pleasure travelling with Geoff. Tomorrow will be the day we return to Dunwall Tower.

I can finally return to the Empress and Emily, but my heart cannot be heavier.

Corvo, if only there were someone else I trusted to send, so that you can remain near, but there is no one else, and the Spymaster was right to insist that I send you. The plague has taken so many and we must find a cure. When you are near, my heart is at peace. Emily and I will count the days until you return. Hurry home, and bring good news.

How can I ever tell her that after a total of six months we had nothing but a fruitless journey? Those cowards, if not giving us empty promises, they openly told us that they were going to blockade us. I could see from their eyes – fear, like our city was cursed and we're doomed to be wiped out by the plague. No one knows how it started and suddenly it spread so vast and fast that almost half the city's population was gone (mostly the poorest, and the most helpless ones who need our help the most).

My news will break Jessamine's heart. I just don't know how to tell her we're on our own now. One part of me cannot wait to return, but the other part of me hope this last day of voyage will never end.