I don't own Dragon Lance, nor any of the characters associated thereof. Tasslehoff's adventures in the five years before the War of the Lance in his own words. Basically, letters from Tas to other characters and some from the other characters back to him. I have no idea what Krynn/Ansalon's mail service is like, but somehow they get the messages.

For my English paper one of the choices was "Letters from a Character" so I figured, Why not do a Dragon Lance one? How about from Tas! That would be fun! Might as well enjoy it if you have to do it. By the way, it was accepted, so my English teacher thinks they're okay... 'course, she hasn't read much of the Dragon Lance stories... she's just starting on the first book...

There are spaces between each paragraph because otherwise fanfiction.net smashes them all together into one paragraph. It's weird, but this way it works, so that's why it's like that.

Tanis doesn't reply because... well, there really is no point in his replying and I felt it wouldn't be in character for him to reply. He may have not even gotten it. I guess we'll never know. ::shrugs::

You don't get quite the same effect since I hand wrote all of them and drew some pictures on the side, as well as made it as medieval-looking as I could, but... here goes.

Oh, and Ms. Rob, if you happen to read this, I hope you realize I found several grammar and spelling mistakes in this that you never caught when I retyped this. =P


(On the front it says "Tanis Half-Elven" in big, half-cursive letters, as well as "Solace" just beneath it.)

Tanis,

If you got my last letter I hope you didn't feel too bad because I'm not really dead. Those two gnomes were letting me choose which jar to be pickled in, when, bam! Woodrow and Winnie came in and saved me! Winnie's a woolly mammoth. I've never met a woolly mammoth before. Have you ever met one? They're big! We didn't get a chance to do much of anything, though.

Did Flint cry when he read my "solongforever" letter? He better have. I hope he wasn't too upset, though—Raistling says that's bad for him. He's probably gotten into all sorts of trouble without me. I'm going to have to keep a closer eye on him when I get back.

I have missed all of you, that's for certain. I've been very careful not to do anything that isn't conducive to a long life. I suppose getting kidnapped by the gnomes wasn't conducive to a long life, but I didn't have much of a choice there.

Did you enjoy your visit with the elves? Flint didn't seem to think you would. I hope you did, whatever he thinks. It must be nice having a family. I wonder where mine is right now? Maybe I should go find them! That would certainly be an adventure!

Your friend,
Tasslehoff Burrfoot