Cordelia raises her head, she doesn't know how long has she been in that position. Minutes? Hours? Days? Looking around her surroundings, it is still the same: a bed, a chair, a table and a fireplace. She look down and stare at the woman who passed away, getting all the Information she had in her head has made Cordelia a bit dizzy.
She look at the supposed leaders of these Bandits? All she sees are their heads twisted, 'What is Skyrim? Is it the name of this land?' Cordelia says to herself as she readied to get up. She put the peaceful woman's head down carefully from her lap and raise herself, looking around the place once again she found a sheet, she covered the dead peaceful woman. Cordelia turns around and started to walk back outside of this dreadful and silent Cave.
Once outside, she is greeted by the night sky, she stretch her arms wide and take a deep breath, then let it all out. She started to walk straight and away from the Cave to find Civilization again, uncaring about the bushes, rocks, lakes and continues on. Fireflies lit everywhere around her, but she doesn't seem to care and keep moving. Hours passes by, Cordelia Sprinted until she is face with what looks like a Farm.
In Cordelia's eyes, she sees a Light Blue Figure near the Farmer's house and the structure of the Figure is of a Human. Thoughts fills her mind, but one thing came, 'a Ghost' she mouthed. Cordelia of course experienced some Ghost in her life, all of them are interactable being and can be slain by the use of Silver Weaponry. Good thing she has her trusty Silver Dagger if the Ghost is Hostile. She started to approach the translucent being, hand on her Silver weapon as she carefully walks toward the Ghost, hoping to be friendly and a reasonable one. One thing for certain is that, as Cordelia comes closer the Ghost, she notice a corpse underneath it.
The Ghost that has stayed motionless for a long time started to move once Cordelia is at a certain distance, a weapon has been pick up by the Ghost from the corpse, then swiftly move towards her. Cordelia draws her weapon, ready to face the Ghost and confirmed that it is a Hostile being. "Soon you will learn of Death!" The Ghost say to her, and Cordelia remains silent, weapon at the ready. Suddenly, the Ghost went to the ground and appear at her back, swinging its weapon, Cordelia with a fast reaction and sensing danger does a front roll and face the ghost. She then started charging at the Light Blue Being, swinging her weapon at the ghost, only to be blocked and says "Death comes for you now!"
Cordelia who wants to finish this fight quickly, easily grabs the Ghost's weapon and yank it to bring it closer then stab her weapon to the chest. "Unh!" The Ghost grunt, receiving the pain from the Silver weapon, it tries to punch her, but only for her to stab deeper with her weapon and started bringing it upwards. The Ghost screams and vanishes, Cordelia sheath her weapon seemingly unfazed, she did not make any noise, but walk towards the corpse where the Ghost stood. As she arrive, only to be face himself to be the ghost that combatted her. 'what sort of tragedy that makes this man rose up as a Ghost filled with rage?' she says in her mind, she notice a Torn Page beside the corpse, she picks it up and read thoughtfully:
"I feel...strange. Hot and cold all at once. My hand shakes. Hard to write. So dizzy...
I think I've been poisoned…
Seems she got the better of me after all…"
'She?' Cordelia put the page down and look at the Farmer's house, then her surroundings, just silence and the blowing wind. No Danger, only the Farmer's corpse in a Farm. Many thoughts fills her mind, should she investigate? Should she leave and don't come back here? This Land of Skyrim seems to be a Dangerous place, Bandits, Ghost, what else? A Hunter? 'I don't even know what or who Talos is!!!'
"hah-" Cordelia squatted down, covers her face with her hands and shake it left and right, she uncovers her face look at the corpse and say "Damn it!" shoutly, she stands up and went to the Farmer's house, tries to open the door to see if it is lock. She pushes it with no resistance as it is unlock, she check her surroundings one more time and goes inside.
As she goes inside, only to find a lovely warm home greeted her, the fireplace is almost out, but the warm there is still fresh from the blackened firewood, candles are still burning on the table, but the one right beside her is out. Stairs on the far left, at the front there is a door and a shelf, and a room to her right. Cordelia went to the room to her right first, only to find of what seemingly to be a child's bedroom. In her eyes she sees, two training dummies, a flag with a drawing of a Dragon? A bed, on it appears to have a child's clothes.
Cordelia went back to the main room and check out the door, only to find that it leads to the basement. She hold that off for now and went upstairs, only to be greeted by the main bedroom of the Farmer, she check the table first and finds a Journal. Curious as she is, she opens the journal and the owner of this Journal is named Urval. 'Should be the Owner of this Farm and also the one that I've fought' says in Cordelia's mind, turning the page, and another as she skimmed through it all until the last page:
"16th of Mid Year
Rin has been missing for three days. My little boy.
I've searched everywhere, but there's no trace of him. Even his favorite toy sword is missing. What if wolves got him? Or brigands snatched him away?
Jonquil has been watching me. I don't like the look in her eyes. And she hasn't cried at all. What kind of mother doesn't cry when her child is missing?
What if- I dare not even put the thought to paper. It's unthinkable.
I found it. I found Jonquil's secret. This is the place she's been disappearing to. The potions, the plants, the books... such evil and unnatural things I found down there. Divines help me, my wife is a witch.
I didn't want to open her foul books, but I had to know, I had to-
Deadly Nightshade. That's what the plant is called, the one I saw her sneaking around with. She grows it everywhere in this hidden place.
She must have poisoned my son. I've seen the sneer on her face, the laughter in her eyes as she watched me tearing apart the farm looking for him. She was mocking me.
I've never felt rage like this. I'm shaking with it, sweating with it. I know exactly what I've got to do. My son's spirit whispers to me, demanding vengeance.
I keep an axe by the door for dealing with wild animals. It will do for dealing with a witch as well."
'Jonquil seems to be his wife, also a Witch to be, and Rin is their son, how sad that he is missing for few days. After reading this, it went to making arguments with his wife of his farm and the child, then it changes to Grief when the child disappeared, turned to Madness, then to killing each other. Maybe find this Hidden room to find more clues and a bit more confirmation' She Calmly sighs. Cordelia went downstairs, opens the door that leads to the basement, perfect for a hidden room and goes down. What greeted her is a Normal standard basement, she looks around to find the hidden room, but the most suspicious is the shelf as it is the only thing that only its back facing on the wall, the other one is tilted and not backed. There are a lot of barrels, but there is nothing to be hidden in those, it is not big enough, except for the largest one, that one is filled with something, so it is not it.
Cordelia started looking for switches or strings or anything that resembles of opening something, she look to her right sees a Button. 'well that was easy' in her mind, she pushed the button, then the shelf started to move on its own. She smiles, but drop it as she sees another corpse, this time a woman with an axe stuck on her chest. 'This must be Jonquil' says in her mind sadly as she look at the dead woman. Suddenly, her senses went wild, Cordelia ducked, draws her dagger and face the Enemy.
Only for it to be the Ghost of Jonquil, "Die!" Jonquil snarly says to her, swinging her weapon, Cordelia block the incoming weapon and replied "Jonquil, Stop!", but the ghost did not stop as she tries to swing again. Cordelia blocks it again with her weapon and says "Let me talk to you please!", but the Ghost of Jonquil ignores her and keep swinging her weapon. With no choice of communication, Cordelia decided to end her life and fast. Cordelia's eyes glows then block the incoming blow of a weapon, she swipes it away and swiftly plunging her weapon deep inside Jonquil's chest, the Ghost shriek and vanishes.
Silence all around, Cordelia stays motionless, ready for another fight, but there is only the Silence. She takes a deep breath and let it out… Minutes passes by, she stayed wariness, another minute once again passes, Cordelia sheath her weapon and look at her surrounding. Cordelia notices a button, "no surprises" she says as she click the button. The shelf started to close, Cordelia turns around, look at the corpse of Jonquil, then look at a lantern on the table, and there.. is a Journal.
She walks toward the Table and picks it up and started to read it thoughtfully until the very end of it:
"16th of Mid Year
It's been three days now. My little boy is still gone. I don't like how Urval is looking at me - his eyes are too dark, too still, like a frozen lake. I think I even heard him mutter something about "getting what I deserve."
Could he have...? No, I dare not even put the thought to paper.
He did it. He must have. That monster killed my son, and now he looks at me with those hate-filled eyes and a mocking smirk. He despises my alchemical arts so much that he took my son from me to punish me.
I've never brewed poison before, but I know how it's done. I know how to bottle death. A few drops in his mead and my child will be avenged.
It is done. The gods will damn me, but they will damn him more for the murder of a child. Rin, I'm so sorry. I wish I could have-
Wait, I hear someth-"
'So.. they accuses each other of killing their son, the woman is an Alchemist. Grief turned to madness to killing each other, and also the argument between them both of the farm and the child before the disappearance as I skimmed through the entire Journal and that confirms it' Cordelia shakes her head until noises can be heard from the main room of the Farm house. Cordelia unsheath her weapon, ready to kill if need be, even if its the Ghost of Rin.. She click the button to open the shelf and slowly went up the basement stairs to the main room weapon in hand.
She heard the noise again once she made it to the main room, it is inside the child's room, she went in there alerted, ready to engage with her weapon. Another noise, it comes under the bed, Cordelia slowly approaching the bed and ready to end the Ghost Child. She look under the bed to find.. another Journal, she takes a deep breath, takes the Journal, and let it out. Cordelia checks her surrounding, finding only nothing, just the Silence.
She opens the Journal and started to read it, drops the Journal, and swiftly goes outside. When the Journal hits the floor, we can see what the contents inside of it and it reads:
"Pa always tells me to stay away from the old well, the one toward the tall monument, out by the tree sitting on a rock. Wolves like to hunt out there, he says. So that's where I'll go. I'll kill a wolf and bring home its head, and that'll prove I'm a man and not a baby.
I'm tired of listening to Ma and Pa yell at each other anyway. "
Cordelia started running to go and find the Child of an abandoned old Well, she founds it and arrives momentarily, only to find wolves munching bones and a child like skull on the ground. Cordelia stare wide eyed, her eyes glows angrily at the wolves and in one swift movement with her palm of her hands aimed at them, the wolves flops down on the ground drainless of their blood. Silence. Cordelia stared down the bones of the Child and right beside it, is his wooden Sword.
There is no Emotion on her face, just blank with many thoughts fills in her mind. She picks up the wooden sword, 'This must be his Favourite sword' says in her mind, still no emotion appearing, 'then I will give you the rest of you and your family deserves', she grips the wooden sword and turns around, Cordelia heads back to the Farmer's House.
She went back inside and slowly approach the child's room. She places the wooden Sword on the table and say "I wish you to be at peace now, Rin", she turned around thus the child appears with his parent by his side by side, She was shock. Cordelia is breathing in and out fast as this is the first time that she had done this for the Spirit to be in Peace, minutes passes by, she shook her head and started to calm down. She started walking towards them.. and calmly says to them "Your Family can be Rest in piece now" and the boy Replied "Thanks a lot! Here. Take This. For all your Had work"
A key floated to her and takes it, The three ghost started to vanish, and Silence. Cordelia looks at the key and it says Goldenhills Plantation on it. Cordelia drops down on the floor, pulls up into her knees hugging it in her arms and bury her head in to it.
Silence has taken over… Just Silence..