Tapeesa- The date letter

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"Amaruq,

Start searching were this started- the place of many faces.

Follow the lines on my face to the only place you can find them.

The best way to tell the stories is at the next place.

Next go where you can share with everyone.

The next place, you will have to visit if you stay out too late for Northern lights.

Come where you can find many hearts living.

You will find your next steps if you can find what Amarok gave to the young boy.

Go to the place where you can see yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Next, find the place where you know your enemies from your friends.

The rest of the way, come where my name leads you.

Meet me here before the sun is up and before stars begin to disappear

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Meet me here before the sun is up and before stars begin to disappear."

                                                                                                                                              Tapeesa


(Explanations of the riddles- not included in the letter, just to clarify. Each new clue is hidden at the place that the previous one led to.

First place- the ballroom. The faces refer to the masks.

In Inuit culture, only women have tattoos. Refers to the women's room.

Inuit people often use their music for story-telling purposes. Music room.

Inuit people usually share the animals they killed during hunts. The place is dining room.

There is an Inuit saying that says if you stay out too late, the Northern lights will take your head. The place is hospital wing.

Inuits believe that souls, or hearts, are captured inside the stories. The next place is library.

A legend where a legendary wolf, Amarok, helped a weak and hated young boy by giving him strength. The place is the gym. 

Inuit saying: Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. Thus, by the wood stove in the kitchen.

Another Inuit saying- you never really know your enemies from your friends until the ice breaks. So, the ice rink. Yeah, Tapeesa doesn't really know how ice rinks work so she does think it is a frozen body of water.

Name Tapeesa means Arctic flower, the flower is Labrador tea that grows in Nunavut as well as in Ontario and Tapeesa found these flowers growing by the lake. Also, the picture of the flower is not included in the letter, that's just for illustration.)

((I'm sure Miles will have fun getting through these riddles :) The number of places and clues and difficulty in solving them is unnecessary but it is Tapeesa's way of being petty after their last encounter.))

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