Chapter 13
by
Kww
Do you apologize?
Yeah, why not?
You eventually decide to apologize, no use in keeping a grudge if you really aren't angry anymore.
You give Nacius a quick poke on the back to get his attention.
"Yes miss?" He asks
You let out a sigh, trying not to seem awkward as you attempt to apologize to him.
"Sanna wants to apologize for blowing up earlier, she was just under a lot of stress from crossing the border and the thought that she was going to possibly get in trouble." You say.
Nacius lets out a small chuckle.
"Here I was thinking I found a nice feisty Khajiit lass." He says with a laugh.
"Really though, it's fine, I still should've been more professional."
Your ears perked up, what did he just say? Was he flirting with you? You freeze up as he laughs. You give him a quick jab in between his armor, which only makes him laugh harder.
"Haha! Did I catch you off guard with that miss?" He says, taking a glance back at you.
"You should see your face right now! Haha!"
You can't help but feel flustered for some reason, he thought this was the funniest thing on Tamriel apparently.
"Sanna just forgave you Nacius, don't make her take it back!" You let out.
Nacius calms down a bit before responding.
"I-it's okay miss, I was just trying to get a rise out of you, you really should've seen your face, your tail stiffened up too!"
You quickly pull your tail in close, curling it out of sight from Nacius, you felt so embarrassed. You didn't know how to change the topic, was he really joking? Your thoughts began to race.
"Sanna would slap you right now if she could get to your face!" You say.
"Come on miss, just trying to have fun here." Nacius responds.
Eventually things calm down, you still feel flustered by his earlier comment, but you once again get distracted by nature and just watch the trees pass by.
After what felt like a short while, Nacius taps you with his elbow.
"Were coming up on Fort Vlastarus pretty soon, just stick close to me and the men there won't give you any trouble."
You turn to look forward and in the distance you see a pretty roughed up looking fortress, it even looks like whole parts of it are being rebuilt.
"Did something happen here?" You ask.
"During the Oblivion Crisis, the men stationed here had orders to leave the fortress and assist in closing as many of those gates as they could, pretty much abandoning the whole fortress, then a group of vampires made this place their home, no clue how they destroyed half of the damned fort, but eventually the empire came back, kicked 'em out, and now were just picking up the pieces."
As you get closer to the fortress you see other legionnaires standing around the area and some walking the walls, eventually, one of them sees you and Nacius.
"We've got a soldier and a civilian coming in from the south!" You hear one of them shout.
Suddenly a few of them walk up to the horse and begin analyzing you while asking Nacius questions.
"Smuggler? We've been getting a lot of them recently." One of them asks
Nacius shakes his head. "Nope, just someone who needed a ride, figured I'd help the poor lass out."
One of the men seemed to recognize Nacius and smiled.
"Nacius! How have you been doing lad?" He asks rather gleefully
"Same as usual, I gave the lass some of your jerky, it looked to me like she was going to pass out!" Nacius says, letting out a hardy laugh.
"Hey, this one was not expecting it to feel like she had just eaten sand!" You protest.
Nacius turns back to you and introduces you to the man.
"Sanna, this is my friend Tolggor, Tolggor this is Sanna."
Tolggor reaches up to shake your hand, seeing this, you go to shake his.
"Nice to meet you lady, me and Nacius go way back." He says.
The three of you are just outside of the fortress now, looking around there are plenty of men and women carrying construction material inside, assumedly to rebuild the place, it's loud too, lots of idle chat, if you didn't know any better, you'd probably think this was a walled village or something.
Nacius hops off of the horse and looks up to you.
"Miss, do you want to follow me and Tolggor here, were just going to catch up a bit and I'm going to grab a bite to eat, then we'll head back out, if not you can just stay next to old Whiterun here." He said patting his horse.
"You named the horse Whiterun? Sanna thought this was a city in Skyrim, yes?" You ask.
"Indeed it is, but me and my uncle named him Whiterun, just thought it fit." He replies.
"So, you wanna follow us in? I'm sure Tolggor can get convince them to give you some extra food."
"Unless you want to keep on sucking that jerky!" Tolggor cuts in.
What do you decide to do?
Elder Scrolls Stories
A series of stories in Tamriel
Years after the of Martin Septim, and the end of the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is unstable, life is getting harder for many, things look grim. Choose who you are during this volatile time in history, and find your place in this world.
Updated on Jun 29, 2021
by Kww
Created on May 13, 2021
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