[Ah so it spoke back as well, it really was an interesting thing. To speak to someone that was not there. He managed to pull the device a little further away, a wide grin spread across his face.]

Hello! Yes, I have never seen anything such as this. If you wanted to send a message you had to send a messenger hawk or hire a carrier to deliver whatever news you had.

It would take days or weeks for a message to reach its destination at times.