When we reached the Helgen it was already late at night and all shops were closed. So all I need to do is to try to find a place to stay and pray that there are still rooms available in local inns.
Having sorted out our belongings and agreed to meet the day after tomorrow at noon at the gates of the fortress our glorious and friendly company dispersed in all directions.
Personally, I rushed to the nearest guard, and putting ten silver coins into his hand, found out where taverns are located. Unfortunately, when I arrived I was treated by bad news, there were no places in cheap taverns, as there are no places in more expensive but still affordable taverns, so I had to go to the most expensive tavern.
I could have spit and go and set up camp behind the fortress, but damn, I spent days under the open sky in the cold, I want to spend the night in a warm bed and not think about what kind of forest or mountain predator will interrupt my sleep this time.
Therefore, with tired feet, I stomped toward the most expensive tavern in Helgen, just at the main courtyard. Going inside, the first thing I stumbled upon was a man on the opposite side of the entrance to the side behind the counter and two more bouncers further back at a separate table.
The second thing I saw was a friend of mine sitting on a chair behind the counter and drinking wine. dunmer. Are there no rooms available?
- Enjoy your meal - seeing that she was not only drinking but also having dinner, I greeted her and then asked.
- Did you already rented a room- while also ordering the dinner he asked, sitting down next to him. - Venison stew and bread - that's already there already was the waiter behind the counter, he nodded and went towards the kitchen.
-No,- she replied.
-No places? Damn, that was just what I needed.
-No, there are places, but very expensive. I can not afford it, especially after purchasing a cure sickness potion for double of its price.
- So you decided to just stay the night in the hall with wine and food?
-That's right, I can sleep on the way to Falkreath. The food here is worth its own money, delicious, - she admitted and threw a spoonful of mashed potatoes into her mouth.
-How much is the room? - it was necessary to find out the price of the issue, maybe I will follow its example, and keep her company tonight.
-Fifty gold, for a room with one bed.
Damn, that's expensive I have the money bad spending so much in one night seems too wasteful.
-Hmm, dear…? I drawled, looking thoughtfully at the elf, we spent a long time with her. sharing almost all night duties on the way but I still did not know her name, so I have one thought. - How do you look to split the price between the two of us?
- And share the bed, too, for two? She asked in of teasing voice than displeased one.
-I won't sleep on the floor, I immediately admitted. - Especially not for my own twenty-five septims.
- Hmm, - she thoughtfully moved the spoon over the puree, considering this option. - I agree to make room on the bed if you let me put in 20 septims for the room.
-Woman, you want to rob me?!
- Well, no one is forcing you.
I wanted to sleep on the bed terribly, even the inconvenience of one extra body could not spoil my desire.
- Grrr, okay. Thirty to twenty, - he extended his hand to her, which she immediately
shrugged with slightly raised lips in a smile. Hmmm, I expected that her palm would be rougher, but instead, they were soft like she never earned and callus. The effect of some kind of alchemical ointment?
Having finished our food in a much more elated mood than before, we simultaneously got up and followed to the room we rented for the night, unloading things in one corner.
-Not bad. the Dunmer assessed the room, however, she was right: a wardrobe, a table, a chair, a chest, a couple of books, and, most importantly, a bed was not just boards, hay, and the skin of an animal, but a quite ordinary-looking bed for me, a man from another world with a mattress, sheets, a blanket, and a pillow stuffed with bird feathers. Remembering the overnight stay in Riften, the difference is obvious.
I will be changing near that wall, I immediately pointed out, starting to undress, I didn't hear any objections, so I accepted silence as yes. And throw off my clothes and boots, remaining just in pants. After that, I turned towards the elf to immediately freeze like a rabbit in front of a snake.
A very exotic, very naked woman was looking at me with a mocking look. and a very beautiful dark elf.
-Oh, is someone speechless?
Those words full of self-satisfaction brought me out of a stupor. Though not fast enough for me to reply.
- I don't care which side you sleep on, the main thing is that me, - a naked Dunmer approached me and put her hand on the center of my chest, tightening the skin with her nails
- I sleep on you! - and she pushed me back into the bed, where out of surprise, I fell easily, and a second later, I felt how from above me a woman lay down and a blanket covered us.
For a moment, I felt disappointed that there would be no continuation, but this thought was quickly overwhelmed by my willpower. It won't, it won't. So even better.
Of course, falling asleep when a beautiful woman uses you as a heating pad will be times more difficult, but you need to be content with what you have, at least the sensation of her naked body has not disappeared anywhere. Hmm, just someone likes to sleep naked, that's all, fucking fantasize.
-Tch, it was mean, - eh, my head is now completely clogged with something else, but her hard nipples, which scratched my chest, we will write off the coolness after undressing, and not something else.
- You've been thinking about something else, haven't you? she enjoyed my awkwardness, her scarlet eyes shone with laughter, the strongest display of emotion that I saw from her in more than a week.
-But-but! Please! I am an honest man and always think of something else, because she had already taken a comfortable position for her, clinging to me from the right side and laying my face on my chest, I also took a better position, embracing my right hand from the back, and left hanging from the bed.
-Warm,- she said blissfully, she had my solidarity, after so manydays in the cold, there was something especially pleasant in the warmth of another reasonable with one blanket. - You don't snore, do you?
- No... I shouldn't.
-Look, if your snoring wakes me up, I will stick my dagger in your ass, -
the smile on her face was dangerously sharp.
- Not today, mage, not today, - a similar snort escaped from her
- Uh-huh, let's sleep. Good night.
And not hearing a word from her in response, I closed my eyes trying to move my thoughts away from mind-numbing sensations. You need to fall asleep without thinking about sex. Even if near a very hot woman, a dagger in the ass is not worth it ... maybe it is?
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It took us about 2 more days to reach my next stop the Falkreath before I will turn north towards Whitrun after staying there for a couple of days.
-Finally,- I breathed a sigh of relief, leaning heavily on board of the cart passing inside the capital of Skyrim's most forested hold. While a wide smile on my face formed as the best manifestation of my complete joy.
-Have you been here before? - probably the third time in sixteen days that we
familiar, the Dunmer initiated a direct question to me, that could develop into a full-fledged dialogue.
She had a very sharp tongue, which she wisely held back, as not everyone would be able to endure her mocking jokes and fun.
- No - I didn't even have to think about the answer, - but I heard something from the lips of others. However, I am glad to enter the capital of the hold for another reason. Finally rest!
-Will you rest? – bewildered red eyes found my blue ones.
-Yeah, lately my life has turned upside down, leaving me without a penny, I had to spin as best I could in order to get out of the ditch.
- Hmmm, exactly without a penny? - I was very, very carefully examined from feet to head.
-You don't look like a beggar with the last Septim behind your shirt.
-Pf! - I knew what she was driving at because my clothes and the total amount of belongings pull on a small pile of gold coins, it's hard to believe that for me it all started with a meager 5 septims that the previous owner of the body left me after spending all his saving on his black reach expedition.
- You won't believe it, but if it weren't for one accident, then I would now be waving a pick axe in the mine and trying to scrape together coins. It was just luck that was able to find dwemer ruins with treasure still in them.
-So fate loves you. the Dunmer shook her head.- and what do you mean by rest?
- That's what I meant, I need to recover after a series of those tests that
fell on me. I need a place where I can roll my bones and forget about the world -
without much emotion, I told her.
I was really emotionally exhausted, at first I was driven by a simple and
the understandable fear of being trapped in falmer infested cave and hunger, after which some unreal feeling flooded my head euphoria from the discovery of magic, together it mixed into a viscous cocktail, not letting me just fall to the ground, curl up, and sob, mourning about ruined life. Instead, every day I don't know where in me there were reasons to plan something, to do something, to act, and just move on.
A full month since my appearance in Skyrim just passed and with it the idea that I needed a break has come, I should stop, my burnout is very close. I felt this especially strongly when I woke up on the soft bed in Helgen, that morning it even seemed to me that everything that happened was just a long nightmare, but the hot naked dark body of an elf on me, prevented me from stretching out with complete comfort on a small bed, gave me back a sober mind.
That feeling of longing that I felt with a lump in my throat cannot be expressed in words, it was so thick... I will yearn for many things, I already yearn for countless
trifles.
So that if I had a family behind my back, how would I behave in such
a case? It's good that I did not have a wife and kids to leave behind, and my parent's retirement secured with four more siblings to take care of them otherwise I would have gone crazy on the ground of nervousness.
- Is there anything to forget? – hmm, I wonder when this mercenary became my personal therapist, huh?
- There is something that I don't want to remember, - I said opening the penultimate bottle of honey in my stockpiles and emptying it in several deep gulps.
- I'll be here for a week. Afterward will go north and search for the job that requires a mage with a fire atronach.
-And what, you will become a mercenary? I thought you were a mage from the College.
-That's the plan. To become a mercenary, and then become a mage from the College - I just shrugged
- In my current position, the best that I can and what I am good for most of all is to kill others, be it beasts, Daedra, humans, or mer.
- You and the killer for gold? Hahahahaha! - ringing and melodious laughter filled my ears, even if she laughed at me, but I could not even take offense at her for this, on the contrary, I felt the shadow of a smile on my face.
-What? Do I not come across as one of the last assassins Dark Brotherhood? Just imagine me sitting mysteriously on the railing of the balcony of someone's house in a red-black developing in the wind, under the light of the moon, robe, my face is covered by the darkness of a deep hood, but a smile is clearly visible anticipation of an early reprisal against my next victim, in my left-hand lightning crackles alarmingly, and the right one is wound behind the back, holding in the palm of your hand deadly dagger. Don't I look mysterious in your imagination
dangerous?
There was silence for a second, the mercenary silently and tenaciously looked at me, then whether imagining in my mind the absurd picture I have created, or simply trying to look for signs of common sense and reason in my face. But the longer she searched, the longer she could not find what she was looking for.
The silence dragged on longer than the duration of silence that was comfortable for me, finally, the eyes of the mercenary broke away from my face and eyes, and on her face began to play a light smirk.
-Sorry, but I think you'd be too small for a Dark Brotherhood killer.
-Ouch! I pretended to have been stabbed in the stomach.
-You are attacking the most precious thing that I have my height. But you're right, of course, I could use it to grow a little, maybe a hand or two. It's okay, I'll eat a lot of porridge and I will become big, big and strong, strong, and at the same time evil -wicked assassin. And then I'll find you and show you how wrong you were calling me small. I said jokingly, after all, thanks to my new nord genetics I am quite tall.
- I did not call you short, - sly scarlet eyes fell on my groin, the Dunmer girl stretched her face into a short smirk - I called him short! - raising her finger, she measured my estimated height in the air and immediately shook her whole hand, --not impressive.
-Rrrrr! Woman! I exclaimed indignantly.
-Rrrr! Man! she teased mockingly, and her "rrrr!" raised a flock of goosebumps on my back.
-So, enough laughing at me, the last bottle of my once-full box of honey, the driver almost drove up to the parking lot of a large inn, which means that in a minute you will need to pack your things and go the hell, and what about you? What are you thinking of doing?
- I'm coming back home, I haven't seen my family for a long time.
- Hmmm, do they live here? I thought the Dunmer preferred Windhelm or
Winterhold, in the last sanctuary of Azura, is there, - threw a test fishing rod
find out more about her, and check some of my suspicions even if we may never see each again.
-A typical misconception, my race lives in all the cities of Skyrim, somewhere
less, somewhere more. But no, I was not talking about the blood family, those have long been gone.
- Oh, well, I am sorry?
-No need, I'm happy in the bonds of a new family even more than being among ones connected by blood.
-Heh, then congratulations on the find, it's rare to find strangers, which
worthy of that level of trust.
-
Indeed, but I was lucky, she smiled affectionately, it's so unusual to see
that smile on her face.
- So home?
-Home," the woman nodded. - and you going towards Whiterun?
-That's the plan. And what? Do you need something there?
-Not that it is necessary, but if you are still on your way to Balgruuf's fiefdom, then I would like to give a gift to an old friend. Will you help?
-You? Why not. So what is the gift and to whom should I give it?
-Now-now, I will draw you a map of her house, and pass it on, - she reached into her backpack and fished out a small sapphire and a sealed envelope. Here.
I stretched out, accepting the two objects extended to me,
- At least I don't have to tear my back dragging all sorts of rubbish.
-You're small, so I didn't load you much, the Dunmer began to rustle coal on a white sheet of paper on her knee. - Map.
-Hmm, - critically evaluating the work of her hands, he was forced to admit, she painted the map is quite legible, you can get lost, but with diligence. - As I will so find your friend.
- Just don't get lost, - the wagon stopped at the side of the road, at the entrance to the inner courtyard of the tavern, the Dunmer woman unhooked her backpack and jumped out of the cart, finally giving me a look.
-I'll try my best,- I chuckled at her in high spirits. -Take care of yourself mercenary
who never told me her name! I shouted these words behind her.
-Maybe a second time! - she answered me, and after that, I lost her in the crowd
Mers and people, are distracted by the Nord coachman.
-As agreed - Falkreath, - the Nord threw the reins and got down from his seat stretching your back.
- Good luck, - I nodded to him and while also climbing away, took my things and silently nodded saying goodbye to the three Bosmer, which, unlike the two Nords, did not take off in Helgene, but finished the journey with us to the end.
Falkreath, let's see how you will meet me.