Skyrim
A Tale of Two Souls
Chapter 11
Ne’ma woke that morning hearing a strange sound, it sounded like someone humming actually once she listened to it for a few seconds. Opening her eyes then promptly rubbing them the girl saw Usshin, the old vampiric mage with his back to her. The cat was working with the hides Lydia had collected the day before, processing them into leather for clothing seems his boasting was not just so he really did know how to make clothing and he was humming as he did so; he seemed to be in a really good mood as a matter of fact bringing a giggle to the girl who had yet to see this side of her adopted father. Usshin looked to the girl when her giggles announced that she was awake, the cat then turning to the girl then giving her a kiss on her forehead. Looking each other in the eyes for a seconds Ne’Ma was the first to say something, asking when her father scooped her up out of their shared bed then proceeding to snuggle with her,
“What’s gotten into you Usshie?”
The cat chuckled a little then said after nuzzling her for a second and then setting her down,
“Nothing, Usshin . . . . uh just woke up in a good mood is all, how about you my Ne’Ma, how are you feeling today sweetheart??”
The young lizard yawned with a playful stretch then responded when she looked back up to the cat,
“I’m alright.”
The cat then got a tad bit closer lowering the volume of his voice as he then asked,
“Nothing . . . . Down there is sore or stiff? Nothing . . . . Hurts??”
The girl took a moment before she answered to make sure, giving herself a bit of a rub then saying with a smile,
“Nope all good.”
The cat smiled then proceeded to rub the girls feathered head, the cat saying as he did,
“Good to hear, now why don’t you get dressed sweetheart I believe breakfast is ready.”
The girl nodded her belly suddenly gurgling and grumbling when the thought of food was brought up. They both shared a laugh for a moment till she got dressed then went out into the common room of the inn, sure enough the inn keeper and his daughter serving breakfast to the sparse patrons they had, mainly towns people who didn’t want to cook for themselves and what seemed to be a trader who must have stopped in during the night. The young argonian proceeded up to the nord man who smiled as he greeted her, Ne’Ma then asking when she wrapped her clawed fingers on the counter,
“Good morning mister inn keeper, may I have some breakfast?”
Once more the girls stomach growled, a blush filling her face as the man laughed in a hearty way then saying,
“Sure thing my dear, take a seat and I’ll get you a plate, with all the meat your father has given us breakfast is the least we can do for you on the house of course.”
She nodded and thanked the man at which point she sat at one of the wooden tables lining the side of the common room, shortly thereafter the man brought her a plate, eggs, several strips of what looked to be pork perhaps from a wild hog or a boar, and some veggies, some carrots and green beans. The girl smiled then thanked the man at which point she picked up a fork and started to eat, cooing in delight as she did. She ate rather quickly without her father there to scold her about manners, it was very good she thought as yoke from the eggs dribbled down her chin a little, her bad manners was short lived however as her father finally walked out of the room and proceeded to lightly rap two of his knuckles on her head saying as he did so,
“Ne’Ma manners, a young lady does not let egg yoke dribble down her chin.”
She nodded her father then accepting a stone mug of what looked to be coffee maybe some kind of tea, it was dark in color and had a strong smell to it, the young Argonian took one whiff of it and promptly turned her nose up to it; fanning her hand in front of her muzzle to try and rid herself of the odor. Her father chuckled as she did so then enjoying his drink a little the girl returned to her plate cooing as she enjoyed her food, Usshin idly watching her as he enjoyed his drink, the inn keeper then asking when he saw the look of thought on the cats face,
“So my friend, anything I can do to help? Seems like you have something on your mind at the moment, something to do with all those hides your companion collected mayhaps?”
The cat looked to the man then gave something a nod then proceeding to say once he had swallowed his mouthful of drink,
“I guess you could say that, I find myself in need of some good thread or maybe twine, without some amount of them I’ll need to improvise and I fear how long my daughters clothing will last if I have to do so.”
The nord man nods then says in response,
“Ai, that would be a problem, our little village has no store or market for such items, the nearest place you’d be able to find any is Whiterun I believe, maybe Riften if you can manage the seedy types that city draws in.”
The cat nods wondering what he’d do, sure he could send Lydia back to Whiterun to fetch some thread, but that would be a massive waste of time in the cats eyes, the nord man then suggesting when he remember something,
“Now that I think about it I think a traveling merchant stopped in last night, could ask him, might have something you could use.”
The cat looked at the direction the nord pointed in showing a redguard man enjoying some breakfast of his own, he was dressed from head to toe in semi expensive looking clothing and somewhat fine jewelry, it was far from expensive but enough to suggest that the man had some deal of coinage to his name and was clearly a decent merchant. The cat nodded then got up from his table leaving Ne’Ma to enjoy her food then asking once he was closer to the redguard man,
“The inn master tells me you’re a merchant, mind if I view your wares?”
The man turns for a moment, his accent deep and rich as he spoke,
“No I wouldn’t mind at all but I am kind of in the middle of breakfast so is there anything in particular you where looking for? I‘d like to keep this short if possible”
The cat nodded saying as the man stuffed a sausage link into his mouth,
“There is, I find myself in need of thread or perhaps twine, I can work with either, would you happen to have any?”
The man stops to think for a moment, idly rubbing his chin as he tried to recall everything he was carrying the man then saying,
“For that I’d need to check my wagon, if you’d care to follow me out to it?”
The cat nodded then looking back to his daughter, the young argonian in question without her father over her shoulder to pester her about manners had gobbled down her food and was now standing behind him tail idly swaying behind her a smile on her face. Usshin rolled his eyes then motioned for her to follow the girl smiling back with a nod, the redguard merchant then saying as he set down his pewter fork,
“Please follow me.”
The cat nodded then with Ne’Ma on his tail followed the man out of the inn and just off to the side of the building, the town had no stable so the inn keeper had allowed the man to pull his wagon up next to the building. The wagon itself was a decent size and was being pulled by a strong looking horse, the beast looking over to the man who smiled back to it asking as he then ran his fingers through its mane,
“And how did you fare last night my friend?”
The horse let out a mild snort as if giving some kind of reply the man then saying clearly knowing his horse,
“Alright I’ll let you go graze in just a moment, but I have some fine people wanting to see my wares, think you can wait a moment?”
The horse looked away as if irritated, the man saying to his horse as he then climbed into his wagon,
“Now now don’t be like that it’ll only be a moment.”
Turning his attention back to the cat and his daughter the man then asked,
“So thread right?”
The Khajiit nodded then replying,
“Or twine I can work with either.”
The man nodded then after fishing a set of keys out of his pocket then proceeded to open the first of three chest that he had his goods locked inside of. He fished around inside of the chest till he shut it with something of a dismissive grunt nothing of what the cat was looking for within. Turning to the next one he turned to the next key on his ring and opened the second chest once more fishing around inside till he said,
“Ah ha, thought I had some, alright man friend, looks like I have about five spools of thread, decent quality I assure you.”
Handing one spool to the cat to inspect Usshin proceeded to look it over, sure enough the thread was good enough, was far from the finest quality but out here it was by far the best he was going to get without making the trek back to a major city. Satisfied with looking the item over Usshin then proceeded to ask after giving a moment to think about how much he‘d need,
“Aright, how much for three spools?”
The man thought about it for a moment leaning across one of his chest as he thought then said,
“Well normally I’d say two septims a spool but I’ve heard about how you helped the inn keeper, I like kind hearted people so how does a Septim a spool sound?”
The cat nodded then proceeded to fish out the three coins from his purse handing them over to the man then took two more spools from his chest and handing them to the cat. Before locking his chest again the man asked,
“So anything else I can help you with or is that it?”
The cat was about to say that he was fine however Ne’Ma’s curiosity got the best of her, the girl then asking in her usual sing song tone when she pulled herself over the side of the mans wagon,
“What do you have?”
The man smiled then said unlocking the third and first chest,
“Well would you like to take a look?”
Thinking about it the cat could find no problem with just looking and nodded picking up Ne’Ma then joining her as she looked into the man’s chest. He had some usual items, trade goods, consumable items like potions and food goods and other such items, a few weapons in the form of swords of the usual metals but nothing to special to the cats eyes, Ne’Ma however found something that made her eyes nearly sparkle with glee, it was a ring, a gold band with what looked to be a pale red gem perhaps a ruby. The girl proceeded to pick up the ring with a smile, Usshin could tell that look in her eye, clearly she wanted that ring the cat then asking,
“How much for that ring?”
The man nodded asking for the item in question, Ne’Ma handing it over for the man to inspect, after looking it over for a moment the man said,
“Well this is a rather valuable item, I’d not be able to let it got for anything less then a hundred septims.”
The cat nodded, he didn’t have a lot of coin to spend, but after looking at the girl for a moment, the young Argonian of whom unfairly pulled the puppy dog eyes on him, found he couldn’t say no to her; the cat after a moment of listening to the part of his mind that liked to spoil his daughter fighting with his common sense decided. The cat then proceeded to pick up his purse once more the girl happily cheering when her father said looking into her purse to make sure how many coins he had,
“How about ninty Septims?”
The man thought about it for a moment then retorted with,
“Umm ninty five.”
The cat then thought of something eyeing the most expensive sword the man had in his cart a decent looking steel sword, the cat then saying,
“How about this. . .”
Pulling an small soul gem from his own bag the cat then said,
“I’ll give you fifty Septims and I’ll enchant that steel sword, it’ll be worth three times what it would be easy after I’m done with it.”
The man thought about the offer for a moment picking up the sword in question, it was an item that alone could go for a few hundred coins itself, having it enchanted for the price of a somewhat expensive ring rang with a bit of a good deal vibe to the man. After thinking it over for a moment the man asked,
“And what kind of enchantment could you do on this blade?”
The cat replied quickly,
“I am well versed in enchantments, I could do any number of enchantments on it, could do anything from enchanting its edge to making the sword set itself aflame on command.”
The man nodded he knew an enchanted sword for could go for a great deal on money, then after a moment of weighing his options said,
“Alright deal, I’d like for you to enchant this sword with flames if you don’t mind.”
The cat nodded handing over the fifty coins then taking the blade from him. The trio returned to the inn, Ne’Ma giddily admiring her new ring as the cat and the merchant sat down at a table together, it was a short process the cat enchanting the sword with the desired enchantment, the small soul stone shattering into bits and shards then proceeding to imbed itself into the blade proper as the cat chanted his spell. In the moments after the man then asked looking at the cat,
“Well did it work?”
The cat nodded then said wielding the blade,
“Ignite”
The blade quickly responded to the command bright red flames growing from then dancing along the swords edge, the cat swinging it around to show the man that it wasn’t just an illusion. Snuffing out the flames with the command of “Snuff” the cat returned the blade to its sheaf then handed it back to the redguard who nodded satisfied with his trade saying when he took the sword back,
“Glad doing business with you my friend now if you don‘t mind I‘d like to return to my meal,”
The man stops for a moment then continues on with a laugh,
“Before it gets to cold.”
The cat nodded excusing himself as the redguard returned to his food stuffing his newly enchanted sword in his bag Usshin looking at his daughter as the girl admired her new ring sliding it on different fingers till she had chosen what finger she wanted it on. The pair sat at a table for a short while Ne’Ma giving her father some love and affection till they where joined by Lydia, the nord woman coming out of her room with a yawn and a stretch wearing what was probably the closest thing to pajamas Skyrim had, a linen shirt and a matching pair of pants the woman scratching her side as she continued to stretch soon sitting down near the cat and his daughter saying as she did,
“Morning my Thane, and you two my young lady.”
The cat nodded asking as the woman motioned for a plate of food,
“Ah, good morning Lydia, how did you sleep?”
The woman nodded with a smile,
“Like a baby, beds here are not a soft as back in Whiterun but by far still good beds.”
The cat nodded having enjoyed his sleep last night, though he’d never say why that was, rubbing his daughters head as she leaned against him, recalling last night fondly. After sitting at the tables for a short while longer Usshin then got back up Ne’Ma frowning when she saw him heading back to the room, most likely to go back to work on her clothing for the climb she however frowned at the idea then said before her father could make a move,
“Usshie I’m bored.”
The cat looked back to her for a moment then asked unsure as to what he could do about it,
“Ne’Ma there isn’t much to do in this little town, what could I possibly do to fix that??”
The girl thought about it for a moment, before a rather mischievous grin cracked across her lips, the girl saying after,
“uh, oh I know, why don’t we go to that barrow thingy!”
The cat was thinking about it, not wanting to take her into another dungeon but before he could think it over the girl was gone, Lydia saying as the cat was lost in thought giving him a shake to bring him back to his senses,
“My thane, Ne’Ma has run off.”
The cat looked at where the girl had been with a look of ‘What the fuck?’ then said as he turned to follow after her knowing where she was going,
“Damn her energy, Lydia can you get ready and catch up with us as soon as you can?”
The nord woman nodded then watched as the cat followed after the young girl who was laughing as she rushed to the barrow, knowing her father was going to be chasing after her. Sure enough the cat was right behind her the cat wincing a little bit as the morning sun stung him a bit, having fed the day before was all that kept him from behind burned by it. Finally catching up to the little ball of scale covered energy Usshin looked up to the girl who giggled and waved him over, the girl saying “This way” and beckoning him to follow her. Saying something of a swear under his breath he followed her as she went into the barrow’s entrance, the two looking at the sealed stone coffins that lined it and after a few seconds the young argonian found her way to the entrance proper the girl trying to push the metal door open only finding she lacked the strength to get it to move. Looking up to her father as the cat walked up the girl said argonian bouncing up and down as she did,
“Come on Usshie open the door.”
The cat sighed, he didn’t want to take her into another barrow remembering the last time he did so, but the girl was so energetic about he could only shake his head then push the door open which lead right to a spiral staircase which lead down below the ground, no doubt into the barrow itself. The two went down the small flight of stairs Ne’Ma humming happily as they did till they reached the bottom, Ne’Ma darting off to their left where a case sat, the girl fishing an old soul gem off of it with a smile then saying when her father approached,
“Here you go Usshie.”
The cat took the gem, wondering who would leave it there, even if it was only a small gem and pocketing it turned to the passage way near them as Ne’Ma fished around on the old shelf to see if anything else was to be found, but nothing was there say for old bundles of linen. Following the cat they entered a small passage almost like a hallway of some kind, the bodies of the long dead interred in little alcoves along the walls, Ne’Ma the little gold hound she is some how managing to find gold purses among the dead, her father wondering if it was really alright to loot the dead in their own graves. The passage was short and lead into a T shaped junction three bodies standing in little alcoves, the cat reading for an attack that never came, more then aware that draugr loved playing possum till it would be to late for you to react to them, the cat not letting Ne’Ma near them till he was sure they where in fact dead dead and not just dead. The cat looked back at Ne’Ma and the young lizard jumped and eeped the cat looking at her only to see her pointing at something, the cat then hearing a ghostly voice cry out,
“Leave This Place!”
Turning to see what had spoken, the cat sees a ghostly figure standing at the other side of a barred off passageway, the ghost then shouting again as it stared at them,
“LEAVE THIS PLACE!!”
The figure then started backing away moaning “Leave!” as it went, the sighting spooked the young lizard who started trembling as it left, her father however was not convinced, he had seen and in fact fought the dead before in all kinds of forms from skeletons and draugr to actual ghostly apparitions, this spook whatever it was, was not acting the way the others had in the past if it was protecting its resting place it would have been more aggressive not just moaning at them to leave, it would have tried to force them out. Cocking an eyebrow the cat was now invested in this place, he wanted to know what was going on and turning away from the barred passage he turned to the only other path afforded them at the time which lead to a small room the young Argonian eeping when her father moved away from her then grabbing onto his tail as she then followed him in. In the small room they found next to nothing, no treasure only more bones and ruined books, a clay pot or two, and an urn which after a few seconds of the girl recovering from the ghost, helped herself to, in which she found a few more gold coins and a plain silver ring, not very impressive compared to the gold and ruby one her father had bartered for, for her. She put the ring in her pocket still then turned to her father who was leafing through a book he found on the table, till he shrugged then set it back down. The two then turned to inspect a few levers they had then seen on the wall behind them, there was four in total and the cat thought out loud that it must be some kind of puzzle to open the door on the far end. The young lizard nodded then before her father could stop her as he contemplated the puzzle, pulled a lever, the one of the very far end. The cat had only a moment to react when he heard something spring then throwing himself against Ne’Ma then pressing her against the wall as darts started being spewed into the room from traps in the wall, Usshin protecting the young lizard best he could from the darts he quickly found to be poisoned, not that it bothered him much, as his vampiric blood offered him a great deal of resistance to poisons. The girl trembled against her fathers chest till the trap ran its course, the cat then saying hissing a bit as he felt more then a few darts logged in his back,
“Ne’Ma from now on my sweet let me pull the levers.”
The girl nodded then about to try and help pull the darts out of his back only for him to swat her hands then say,
“No, they are poisoned.”
The girl nodded then looking as Lydia rejoined them the nord then saying,
“I’ll remove them then, I have gloves to protect my hands.”
The cat nodded then waited as the nord woman carefully removed the darts from the cats back, removing about twenty or so before she said,
“Alright that’s the last of them I believe.”
The cat nodded then said once more looking to the lever puzzle,
“Alright then lets figure this out real quick.”
Looking at the levers, the cat then pulled the one to the far most left, the second he did however caused the passage they came from to be blocked off by bars, Ne’Ma jumping away from them and back into the room they came from, Usshin then saying,
“Hold on Ne’Ma, Usshin will figure this out don’t move.”
The girl nodded, not liking being separated from the cat in a place like this. Pulling the next lever to the one he pulled forced the bars on the far side, the side the ghost had been behind to open, the girl letting out a shout as she backed away from them. Usshin played with the leavers for a few moments more before he figured the puzzle out and opened the passageways idly wondering to himself who would set something like this up in a place meant to burry your dead in. With that aside Usshin advanced Causing Ne’Ma to ask,
“Wait what about the ghost?”
Lydia then asked an eyebrow raised,
“There is a ghost here?”
The cat responded with,
“So it seems, or at the very least something trying to convince us it’s a ghost.”
Lydia looked at the cat with a confused looked then asking,
“What do you mean by that my thane?”
The cat responded as he pressed on,
“I’m not to sure it is a ghost is all, I’ve seen more then a few in my days and it did not behave like any I‘ve seen before.”
Lydia nodded wondering how old that cat was suddenly her projection not even close to it however not knowing that cat was a vampire, however that aside the cat followed the newly opened path into yet another T junction the path across from where they just came however long since collapsed. Looking to his left he saw yet another barred off passage to the right a door, which Ne’Ma quickly found to be locked. At the lizards request Usshin picked the lock on the door and inside they found a small room with a chest at the end, Usshin had to scoop up the young girl who tried to bolt for the box only to trigger another trap the girls eyes going wide where she saw four huge spikes jut from the wall into the space she was about to occupy, she would have been skewered had he not intervened, Usshin then asking as he felt the girls heart race in her chest,
“So are we going to keep doing this sweetheart, or is Usshin going to have to put you on a leash?”
The girl shook her head then said,
“I’ll be good.”
The girl still recovering from the shock of the trap when he set her down, the cat then side stepping the trap Lydia and Ne’Ma following after in the same way. On the other side they finally got to the chest which the cat quickly found was also booby trapped, the cat looking down to the girl who knew she would have just thrown open the lid to see what was inside. Quickly disarming the trap’s trigger he then opened the chest to find some small amount of gold coins inside and a gem, a sapphire which he put in his bag. Leaving the room the same way they came they then found themselves faced with the barred passage that lead deeper, the cat pulling the chain toggle to open it, then looking on as the small staircase beyond as it was then filled with spears jutting from the wall, the cat then asking when he continued on after they retracted,
“Seriously, who fills a public crypt with traps?”
His daughter nodded in agreement, the girl now firmly scared into staying behind her father now and not running ahead. Going down the staircase there was another T junction one path leading to a closed door with a dragon engraved on I. Spying another trap trigger on it he rolled his eyes, thinking to himself that this trap business was getting to a state of nonsense, choosing to ignore it for the moment moved on down the open path, it seemed to lead to a left hand turn and what one would assume to be a room. As they walked down the path however they heard the ghostly voice from before ask,
“Does someone live among the dead?”
Walking into the pathway itself was the ghostly apparition from before, now that the cat could see it properly it seemed to be that of an elf. The ghostly elf shouted in a rage then attacked with lighting bolts shouting as it did,
“Mortal fool! No one hides from the dead!”
The battle as it was, was short lived the ‘ghost’ got a few bolts of lighting off which Usshin blocked with a spell shield which lead to Lydia charging in past the cat who side stepped to give her the room she needed. With the distance closed the Nordic woman slammed the ghostly elf into the wall with her shield, the ghost then shouting at her as the cat readied a spell of his own,
“Only a fool tries to kill the dead!!”
Lydia heard the crackling of the cats spell and stepped aside as the cat unleashed a bolt of his own, the so called ghost exhaling in pain as the spell pierced his chest a second light bolt spell being cast by the cat who says in a mocking tone,
“Some ghost, be gone you‘re not worth my time!”
The second lighting bolt put another hole in the ghostly elf’s chest, said being then falling to the floor, now truly dead. In the seconds that followed the elf’s body returned to normal with a magical sounding whoosh, well as normal as a corpse could be. Usshin laughed then said as he gave the elf a stiff kick,
“Thought so”
The cat then walked into the room past the elf and started looking into things in the room the elf had been in, inside he found some of the usual items, urns some scrap linen cloth and some herbs, clearly belonging to the elf including is journal. The cat picked up the leather bound book and started to summarized the entries, telling his daughter and his companion about the elf and his decent into madness. The cat then saying once he put the journal in his bag,
“So he came here looking for treasure, then went insane trying to find it, what a waste.”
Usshin turned to the two females following him then said,
“I know how these puzzle doors work, without the corresponding dragon claw it is impossible to get them to open.”
His daughter nods, the girl only barely understanding what he was talking about his companion then asking,
“What should we do now?”
Usshin looked to her for a moment then said patting his bag,
“The elf's journal should be proof enough to ease the minds of the inn keeper and his daughter that the ruins here are not haunted, so we'll take it to him.”
His daughter nods as well does his companion, the nord woman putting away her ax and shield when she was sure that there was no longer any danger. Though Ne'ma was a little disappointed that their venture into the burrow was not a little more exciting, she was however done with the place, the countless traps having frayed her young nerves. Opting to jump up onto her fathers shoulders, the young argonian let out an eep like shout when she leapt up toward the cat, Usshin catching her instead, then saying as he opted to tickle her,
“You have way to much energy sweetheart, its a wonder how you haven't made my fur turn gray yet.”
The girl erupted into laughter as her father tickled her, the cat keeping it up till he finally put her down, the the young lizard panting and gasping for breath after the tickle attack. With the elf's journal in hand the trio left the tomb after their somewhat adventure which was more then enough for the girl who clung to her fathers side like glue, not wanting to set off any more traps on their way out. Usshin looked down at the now wary little argonian, if nothing else came out of this he thought, at least now she won't be running off into tombs half cocked now. They exited the crypt promtply not having been to deep inside and the cat knowing from the elf's journal that the deep section of the crypt was blocked off my one of the nordic puzzle doors, which the elf could never find the key to, which is what drove him mad. From the looks of the sun in the sky when daylight once again greeted, or in Usshin's case flipped him the bird, they could tell that somehow they had been down there for at least two hours, it was going on just about noon. They walked back over to the inn and where geeted by the inn keepers daughter the late teen aged girl was currently cleaning when the cat and his companions walked in.
After greeting the girl the cat made his way to her father the man having taken behind a counter in the back and was cleaning mugs when the cat walked up, Usshin then saying,
“Well, I found something from your ghost my friend, take a look.”
The nord man was puzzled as he picked up the elfs journal and started to read it, a look of a mix of embarrassment and rage filled his face as he read then saying,
“I can't believe we were all so stupid, so this whole thing was just a fabrication of this Wyndelius character?”
The cat nodded then said showing the nord man one of the vials he picked up,
“So it seems, he had somehow found an alchemical means of giving himself to appearance of a specter, it could have fooled anyone who has not dealt with such beings in the past, I have.”
The man nods then stops when he reads the passage about the elf never being able to find the key, the cat noticing something of a smug or even a cheeky grin on his face before he set the book down, then saying when he returned his gaze back to the cat,
“well if nothing else, this will at least give my patrons some relief of mind, and for you my friend I have something to give you, if you won't accept it as payment then please accept it as a gift.”
The man reached under his counter to a small lock box, after getting a small key from his pocket he opened the box and then pulled out a small bag and then handed it over to the cat. Inside of the bag the cat could not help but laugh, it was the claw key for that puzzle door, the inn keeper had it all this time. The cat couldn't help but find this ironic, the elf had clearly stayed at this inn, had he simply told the innkeeper his intentions he might have been willing to tell the man his intentions he might have passed along the key. With that little adventure taken care of the cat put the bag and claw in his bag his daughter then asking with a tone of glee,
“So what are we going to do now Usshie?”
The cat patted her head then said which made the girl pout,
“Usshin will go back to making your clothing, we need to get up the mountain and a certain little girl I know avoids the cold like most do the plague.”
the girl pouted as she saw her father return to their room knowing he'd not go anywhere today till he was finished, she looked to Lydia hoping she might entertain her but she had already set into a lunch and ale. With a pout the girl sit down next to Lydia and asked for some food of her own, the only thing they could wait for was for her father to finish up with his little project so they could go up the mountain and meet the graybeards and get the girl the training she needed to learn how use her thu'um.
~end of chapter~
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