Either this month or last, I lost my journal. I may have dropped it by
mistake, although that is very unlikely as I have retraced my footsteps
to ever room I entered. However, I am much more suspicious that someone
stole it. If you have found my journal OR stolen it, I will pay as much
as I need to to get it back. The journal has all of my poetry and
stories in it and they aren't kept anywhere else for back-up. If you
have it I will give any amount of gold for it that I can possibly afford
or earn.

In short, please return my journal if found/stolen. If you do I'll give
a reward/ransom for it.

Please, all of my writing is inside it.

At your mercy,
Tael Escath

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Glacian, in the year 368 AF.