Dear uncle,

How's yer leg? I hope my cousins aren't giving ye too much trouble
lately. Anyways, ye wouldn't believe the things that have happened to me
since the beginning of the year!

I know ye always shook yer head at my hunting and tracking ways. "Settle
down to a real business", ye always said, "Nothing good will come of
sitting around in trees for hours on end!" Well, uncle, I think ye'd be
pleased that I've proven you wrong! Remember how I used to play Tribes
of the Forest with me cousins when I was a little kid? How I've always,
always wished I was one o' the Serenguard? In Estar, I finally found my
way to Serynwodenhillirim - Serenwilde, as ye might know it, and GUESS
WHAT!? They took me in! I got to swear an oath on the Leaves and
everything, thanks to a nice girl named Aloy who was very open and
friendly t'a newcomer like me.

It's a shame that the Serenguard Lodge burnt down. It's kinda
embarrassing to mention, but I honestly teared up when Aloy and another
girl called Elilnys took me to the old ruins, and then to the cairn of
Master Eurytus. Remember him? Remember how we'd make ye pretend to be
him so we could be sworn in? Well, I put a stone down at his cairn. For
all o' us. And I finally learned the proper way to salute the good ole
centaur. They have new guilds now - Wodewoses seems most like the old
Tribes game we useta play, but Listeners and Sowers are nice too, memory
trees an' everything.

All the reminiscing made me fired up, real fired up. Remember that time
when I made a bow outta pieces of driftwood in an hour cause I was upset
at the weevils, and then I killed twenty o' them? That fired up, I was.
So I offered to build the Serenwilde a new hunting lodge, fully it stock
it and everything. In the process of seeking permission, I met so many
other people: Trade Minister Astrasia (Aloy's grandma!), members of the
Moonhart Circle like Saran and Sondayga (I think that one's the
Seneschal), Power Minister Anita, and a whole bunch others beside. They
were all real nice t'me, and provided me the materials to get down to
building. Former Warden Ejderha, tho' he en't a Seren anymore, also gave
me some nice advice about not disturbing the past.

Like I said, I was fired up. So I finished the new lodge in a jiffy. And
I added a box o' rattlesnakes too. Remember me special formula? I figure
their hunters would appreciate it. Or if not, I can teach 'em. They
seemed to like the lodge well enough. I was afraid they'd be upset it
was too small, but they weren't.

And of course, I am living my dream of LIVING IN SERENWILDE! There's SO
many more things I want to do! I really really hope that I will get to
stay here for good, and that I will continue to help the forest in
whatever way I can, maybe build more things for 'em. There's enough
wood, at least.

If ye have time outta yer busy schedule, please come visit! I can show
you the wonders of the trees that ye hate so much, hah!

Much love,

Nirena Leafsmith

Penned by My hand on the 1st of Klangiary, in the year 480 CE.