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Dear Momma and Pappa.

It has been a while since I wrote to you and I am sorry. We My tenacus and I have been busy for a lot lately even though we have been at Fobin for almost two months without leaving.

I have been working on the gifts that I wanted to give to people in my spare time. They should be with this letter. There is one for Dadda, one foe Mamma, one for Erecford, one for Symelle and one for Ash (could you give to him? He hasn't come to Fobin in a long time and I don't know when I'll be able to go to Coranan. You can find him at an Inn and he's called Llewellyn). I hope that everyone will like their gifts because it was very hard for me to get all the right material since I had to ask a lot of things from a lot of… friends.

Dadda's is the one with the buck on it because he is so strong and noble. I asked a buck for a small part of his horn to make the clasp in the back and he wasn't happy at first but I was able to convince him. Unfortunately, I also made his mate jealous and she ran after me until I got to the fort to hide. The guards at the door laughed at first but didn't think that it was funny when the doe didn't want to leave because she was angry at me. I was apologizing to her even though the others were laughing so hard they had tears in their eyes. Eventually, she left but she was still mad at me.

Momma's is the one with the doe on it because she is gentle and strong. I found out just how strong a doe is when she ran at me! I wanted to ask for some bit of fur to add to the cloak pin but I wasn't about to ask the doe from before since she was still mad at me! So I searched for days on my free time until I found a doe who let me take some bit of fur as a gift when I helped her find her fawns who were lost on the other side of the river Thard! She had heard of me through the other doe and wanted to meet me because she didn't like the other doe. Who knew deer had rumor mills and party politics!! It's news to me!

Erecford's is the boar because he's not interesting. Ha Ha! I made a joke! They say it's a pun so it must be punny!! No, Erecford isn't boring. I think he's a like a boar because he's ferecely protective and care about his family. I realized this as I thought about him and Symelle. He's not a bad man but don't tell him I said so! I realized just how important it is to protect family when I wanted to talk to a boar that I met in the woods while looking for the doe ( the second one, not the first one). He was out with his family rooting around for food when I saw him. I called out gently to him but he was surprised (see, I have been practicing following animals and coming close to them to study them as part of my training) and was scared that I was gonna hurt his family. So while they ran away from me, he started running towards me. So I ran! I ran even faster than when the doe was chasing me because he was so angry! I tried to tell him that I didn't want to hurt his family and that I thought his children were beautiful but for boars beautiful beans means delicious so he thought that I wanted to eat them. Finally I had to climb up a tree because I just couldn't run any more. He huffed and scruffed and charged the tree. I was up there for three hours trying to explainthings to him when three poachers heard the noise and came closer to see what was happeneing. They had captured two suckling boars and were about to hurt the poppa boar. The poppa was about to charge them and I could see the poachers were preparing a boar spear, I knew that the boar didn't stand a chance against three experienced poachers. So I decided to stop them. I jumped out of the tree and that stopped the boar who was about to charge the poachers and ran towards the poachers calling to them to stop where they were because I was a legionnaire and that I was arresting them for poaching. The poachers stoppd what they were doing and dropped everything, incluiding the baby boars, and ran. I had to stop the poppa boar from chasing after the poachers since I was afraid they would still hurt them. The baby boars were still alive because the bag that they were inside was still moving. I let them out and they ran to their poppa. I said to him that I wanted to be a friend. He wasn't too happy about that but he was happy that I helped him so he said yes. I was going to ask him for a piece of his horn or some fur but he left. I saw under the tree that I climbed that he had gouged it and in one of the gouges, I found a piece of his horn. And that's how my gift to Erecford has a real piece for a real horn from a real boar on it (it's the boar's tusk on the carving, neat eh!?)

Symelle's is the eagle in the neast on the mountain. I think that she is super great and I wish that she would have been around before I met her. She is my mom and I think of her like an beautiful eagle. There is a eagle in Fobin, did I tell you that? He's very nice but he's also very lonely since he built a nest and no girl has come to see him yet. I wanted to help him so when I had some time I told Primus that I was going riding and went towards the mountains because that's where other eagles are supposed to be. It took me a long time but I finally found a girl eagle who was also lonely in the mountains. I told her that I knew a boy eagle who was looking for someone. She was interested, specially since he would send a human to find her. When I got to Fobin, he was very surprised and happy, I think. They both left for the mountains and they thank me. I took down the nest from the tower and found all sorts of feathers and decided to put them on the gift that I made for Symelle.

Ash's (or Llewellyn, if you want) I found a old piece of wood and carved a tree out of it and put a pin on it to make a broach. I found the wood washed up on the shore of the river Thard when I was on patrol. Manus Phillipus said that driftwood sometimes gets pulled to the bottom of the river and stays there for years, many years even, sometimes hundreds of years!! He could be lying but I don't think so. So he says that the wood stays there for along time in the mud and doesn't even rot! After a while something can pull the wood loose and it's taken right to shore as driftwood. So that's why I took that piece of wood for Ash and since he likes trees (because he has a name like a tree, among others…) I carved it into a tree.

Well, those are my stories about the gifts to you. I also made some for my tenacus, for Primus Caius, Antonius and Cornelius. Oh! And for Sir Reius too! He's a knight that I met from Kanday. He was nice and shy and I heard that he won a tournament somewhere so I wanted to give him a congratulations gift. He's a knight of Larani and nice so I made him a shield with a sword on it, the shield to protect him and the sword to give him courage and strength. Primus got a shield of Fobin (it was very hard to do!) with a taburi on top. Antonius I gave a shield with a horse that has wings on its hooves and it's flying too. And Cornelius I should have given a symbol for a pillow but instead gave him a scroll with a qwill because he's book and he writes a lot, too!!

And I almost forgot about Manus Phillipus! I gave him a lyon. It was an animal that they had in circus and I saw some also in another place. They say that a lot of lyons make a pride! Isn't that a little silly! One lyon, many lyons they all seem so proud to me! The lyons in the circus were very nice to me because they were used to people.

I'll make some more later for Alix and Marcus and Lucia and Silvia and . also the members of Fobin 1:1:1, Mitch because he teaches all sorts of stuff, Joenorm because he's always there when someone needs help, Vlayz because he's nice to me, Kalinde because I look up to her and Toribir even though he's lazy and is always trying to get out of doing work so that we always have to do more but even then he still looks after us.

Well, that's it for the gifts. I hope that Alix's shop is doing well. That Marcus is doing well learning to become a mason. That Lucia is deciding on who to apprentice with. And that Silvia is keeping out of trouble!!!

 I miss you all so much. I hope that you miss me too. When I can, I'll take some time off and visit you all in Coranan. That's if there isn't something else coming up because there always seems to be. I don't know if mamma and dadda had adventures like mine but it sure gets tyring.

 Bye.

Fennelisa of Asarn, daughter of Vaynder.

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