After the meeting back in Thessaloniki concluded, hundreds of riders, messengers and ambassadors rushed out of the city carrying letters to their respective destinations. Some of these letters are written by Antonius, some letters are written by Anna, and some are written by both of them like the one Skanderbeg received earlier. They are all part of the broader strategical plan for the next two decades discussed by the war council and senate, to befriend the distant states that has little to no conflict of interest to them, and united as one they shall deal with a common enemy that they all have together, that is the merchant Republic of Venice.