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Dear Cecil,
I'm having Merry write this since it would take too long for me to write it - I'm still practicing - but I told her to write down exactly what I say, even if I'm rude or get the grammar wrong.
First off, I'm real sorry about your brother and father. No wonder you're so lonely. I have to ask though, because it's Northrend - do you mean your brother is haunted like emotionally, or did he bring back an actual ghost? I'm okay with feelings, but I would need some time to work up the courage to go near a ghost. You didn't mention a mother - did yours die having you like mine did?
That gets to your question about my history with Merry. I guess it wasn't a question, you just said you didn't know, but that sounds like a polite version of a question maybe. So when Tyrrell killed my dad, he asked Keiley if she had any other family back home and she told him about me. So he started sending me money. But we were in Gilneas, and that was hard, so he used his Gilnean cousin to get the money to me. That's Merry. She offered me to stay with her too but I never wanted, so we just used the money for food and clothes and other things I needed. I mostly stayed with the harvest witch coven near Gilneas City until everything fell apart.
Thank you for telling me about the things you wish for and can't have. I don't know why, but it made me feel a little better to know that having a lot of money and "blue blood" doesn't fix everything. So that's one thing I can stop wanting, I guess. As far as not talking, that must be frustrating for you, with so much to say, but for what it's worth, I've been around people who don't talk much, and you don't seem like one of them. I always feel like you're saying more than most people do.
I don't know if I'm saying this right. I just mean, I'm never sitting around thinking, boy I sure wish Cecil could talk. Because I feel like we're already talking. But I'm sure you've got a lot more you could and would say. I can't even imagine. It would be like a Cecil tidal wave. I think your brain has more in it than most people, so even when you're limited in how you can say it, you get across about as much as an average person like me can take in.
I don't know how to end letters good.
Love, Ozzy
P.S. Merry says that stands for "post script." Post script, I can turn into a walrus for real. Well actually they say it's a sea lion but I swear, it looks more like a walrus, I will show you sometime and you can see what I mean. Most people only do it in the water, but sometimes I do it on land just because it's funny and I like the way people look at me when I do it. Merry is telling me now that this is too long for a post script so I'm going to end the letter again. She says I don't have to say "Love, Ozzy" again, but that doesn't seem right to me.
Love, Ozzy