Psellos wrote to a krites of Katotika that the metropolitan of Larissa was a serious and revered friend of his, who needed the aid of the krites, an even closer friend of Psellos, to recover Larissa; thus the metropolitan would see how well Psellos chose his friends. He also congratulated the krites on his wife, whom he had heard but never seen. She influenced Psellos to take an interest in her husband's affairs, and agreed that the money to be returned by him to an inhabitant of his theme should be given in such a way as to to have the peasant houses rebuilt. Psellos hoped he would soon be home after too long an absence