Nope

You cram everything into your bag as best you can, you managed to get everything packed pretty quickly, luckily, nothing came to investigate that mangled rabbit. After looking over everything one last time, you begin walking towards Nacius, who's digging through the saddlebags on his horse.

"Sanna is packed and ready to go whenever you are." You tell Nacius.

He grabs something out of his pack, then turns around, extending his arm like he wants to give you something.

"Take some of this, it's not great, but it beats going hungry."

You look down at what he's holding and take it from him, it was jerky, pretty big pieces too, they felt rock hard.

"Jerky?" You ask, raising an eyebrow.

"Technically yes, but it's more like sucking on a dense chunk of salt, but hey, food is food eh?" He says, again with that annoying smirk.

You grab a smaller piece of the jerky Nacius handed you and you put it in your mouth, immediately you get this overwhelming taste of salt and your mouth goes dry, this was surely the saltiest jerky you've ever tasted, you quickly set your bag down and begin shuffling through it to retrieve your waterskin.

"We'll probably need more water, I wasn't joking about the stuff." Nacius say's with a chuckle.

You hold some water in your mouth for a moment before swallowing it, you slide the chunk of meat to your cheek.

"You eat this? This is awful! " You cough out

Nacius hops onto his horse, then looks down at you.

"I suck on it while out on patrol, keeps me from feeling hungry, one of these pieces could probably last me a day."

You look at your hand, counting out how many pieces he gave you, if what he said is true, this is almost a weeks supply of "jerky". You take one more sip of water and shove the jerky and waterskin into your bag, Nacius pets his horses neck then looks at you.

"You ready to get going? If we head out now, we should get to fort Vlastarus in about an hour, there we can pick up some actual food and some more water." Nacius says, he extends a hand down so you can get on the back of his horse.

You clear your throat, still getting used to this salty chunk of meat in your mouth. "Let us get going, Sanna does't know how long she can keep this thing in her mouth."

You grab his hand and he helps pull you up onto his horse, it's been a long time since you've been on a horse, Khajiit don't really use them in Anequina, too hot. Nacius gets his horse to start moving, it's official, you're off.

"The saltiness goes away after a bit, over time it just melts in your mouth, it's that initial contact with your tongue that feels like a punch in the mouth." He chuckles

You look around the area, there are no real discernible roads around you, well, other than little deer trails that just go deeper into the wilderness, you wonder how Nacius is going to find his way to this fort Vlastarus he spoke of.

"Sanna doesn't see any roads around here, how do you know exactly where you're going?" You ask him

"I know this place pretty well, patrolling the border for about two months has kind of **** me to grow familiar with the area."

You're impressed, you never really could form a sort of mental map of the area outside of Orcrest, despite you traveling around there for all of your life, then again, Anequina is mostly sand and cliffs, from what you've seen of Cyrodiil so far, it has a lot more geographical uniqueness to it.

As the horse makes its way through the West Weald, you can't help but take in the sights, yes it was just green countryside, with some forests and grass, but you've never seen anything like it before, the deserts of Anequina are just that, deserts, the only pretty looking plant life you've seen was the gardens outside of the palace in Orcrest.

Nacius clears his throat and breaks the silence.

"So how would you have found your way to Skingrad or Bravil if I hadn't have shown up?" He asks.

You think back to before you crossed the border and the many nights you studied an old map of Cyrodiil.

"Sanna knew that Lake Rumare and the City Isle was a straight shot north of the border, so she figured she would keep north until she either came upon Lake Rumare or found a road."

"Not a bad idea, but it still would have been safer to just cross through the border checkpoint so you at least started on road." He replies

You sigh. "Sanna did not have enough coin to pass through the checkpoint, the fee was almost too much, and she wouldn't be able to pay the damned tax, are you happy?"

Nacius tenses up for a moment.

"I uhh, didn't know they made you pay to cross, I thought they just recorded who came through." Nacius says

You couldn't believe that Nacius appeared to not know about the fee, or the tax, you crack a smile and begin laughing.

"W-what's so funny?"

You continue to laugh, for some reason this was the funniest thing you've heard in a while, eventually though, you calm yourself down.

"Do you seriously not know about the fee for crossing, or the tax they give you?" You ask, dumbfounded.

"No, I figured that they just put your name in a book and then send you away!"

You begin laughing again, tears forming in the corners of your eyes.

"W-wait, hang on." You barely get out.

"Wait so you haven't heard the complete outrage from the other provinces because of the tax raise, this one has heard it from everybody!"

Nacius looks back at you.

"No, not really, I don't really keep up with the news, I just do my patrols."

You calm yourself down after nearly **** on the chunk of jerky in your mouth, catching your breath.

"Sanna would've happily crossed through a checkpoint if she had the coin to do so, sorry for laughing, this one was just dumbfounded."

Nacius seems to ease up and lets out a small chuckle.

"Well as long as you aren't angry, a laugh is fine with me."

You realize your anger for Nacius has completely fizzled out, you forgot about the whole ordeal for a moment it seems, it's a nice feeling, you begin to think about how after he takes you to Skingrad, you likely won't see him again, you find yourself feeling sad from this thought, it felt like you were starting to form a friendship with this Legionnaire you just met.

You feel obligated to forgive Nacius for your freak out earlier, thinking back to it, you were just stressed, and he was just trying to crack a joke. But you feel like that might make things weird, you think about it for a moment before deciding...