Hail good sir, and thank you for your patience, for your message was only just now received.
Our intentions are peaceful. We seek to bring only culture and prosperity to these hitherto unpopulated lands. Of course we understand that in such a well populated and diverse land, nations cannot expand without making new neighbours and creating borders with existing ones. But we hope the great nation of Campeche will recognize that our intentions are peaceful, and will see fit to continue her open borders with Scotland.
Please, send observers into our lands, enjoy the great warmth of scottish hospitality and the mellow power of our whisky, and see for yourselves that our great cities are garrisoned with nothing more than is needed for defence and safe keeping of our citizens. While I understand your instinct and alarm, cutting visibility and ties between our two great nations can surely only lead to fear and distrust, and the destabilizing escalation of arms that fear and uncertainty can breed.
As for the border lands, it is not our intention to steal your resources, and should the fine Campeche silk that lies to our northwest ever fall under our control, we will endeavour to improve and tend it's precious bounty and offer the silk to you as your rightful prize and a gesture of the goodwill and friendship between our two nations.
I hope that you will consider this acceptable, and again invite you to travel as guests in our lands to see for yourself our peaceful intentions.
This be an acceptable reply. We thank ye. Perhaps in t' future, ye'd speak of these things afore placing t' settlements or doin' other thin's that'd create such tension. We regard ye as a neighbor, and don't care for any misunderstandin 'tween us.
We thank ye for yer gesture of goodwill and look forward to t' sharin' o' resource.
Lafitte
