Making yourself usefull.

You and Nacius make your way through the cellar, you pick up your discarded articles of clothing and Nacius grabs his clean clothes as you make your way through. Nacius makes his way up the ladder, once he reaches the top, he reaches for your cane.

"Pass that up." He says.

You hand your cane and your clothing to him then begin making your way up, your calf was feeling quite weak because of your... earlier actions.

"Need a hand love?" Nacius asks.

"Help pull this one up, if you don't mind?" You ask, extending your hand upwards.

Nacius grabs your hand and helps pull you up the small ladder, once you get to the top he pats you on the back and hands you your cane.

"Sorry, Sanna's calf is feeling quite weak after our fun." You say.

"Hey, don't worry about that!" Nacius says, walking over to the hearth.

You take a seat on the dusty floor in front of the hearth, Nacius tosses both of your clothes onto the bed before retrieving some dusty logs resting beside the hearth and throwing them in.

"By the moons Nacius, this place needs a good dusting." You say, running your finger along the floor, looking at the dust.

"I know, but I'm never home." He says holding his hand out to the wood.

"Don't you worry though, I'll get this place all nice and tidy before I get back to work, just for you." He says, turning his head to you.

Nacius turns his head back to the fire and closes his eyes, trying to focus on casting a fire spell, suddenly fire shoots out of his hand, igniting the logs. Nacius shakes his hand, rubbing his palm for a moment before getting up.

"There you go, get yourself all nice and dry now." Nacius says before walking over to the bed to change his clothing.

You let the towel slip down and you scoot closer to the fire, sitting in a way that would help you dry faster. You hear Nacius rustling into his clothes behind you before he walks over to your side.

"Admiring the view?" You tease.

"I could never get enough of it... So, are you all set here?" He asks.

"You aren't going to wait for Sanna? She would like to go with you." You say.

"I insist Sanna, your calf is bothering you, let me go fetch the things we need by myself, I'll be back before you know it."

You couldn't help but feel like a burden, Nacius was giving you all of these things for free, a home, food, even a bath tub! All while you haven't done a thing. You sigh and turn to look at him.

"Sanna owes you, she has grown too lazy with this stupid leg of hers." You say.

"You don't owe me a damn thing love, you just need more time to heal..."

Nacius walks over to the door and looks back to you.

"I'll be back soon, help yourself to well... anything you can find. Hehe, break into the wine if you want to!" He say's with a chuckle.

"Sanna just might do that... love you!" You say waving to him.

"Love you too..." Nacius responds before leaving.

You hear his muffled footsteps outside slowly fade, and soon the only thing you hear is the crackling fire and your own heartbeat. For a while you sit by the hearth and relax, letting your fur dry. After a while you began to think to yourself, you still felt bad for being a burden on Nacius, even though he claims that you aren't, you felt like you needed to do something useful. You looked around the small house, the dusty shelves, the dusty floor, the dust just floating in the air, this place needed a good dusting. You felt your body, you were still quite damp, but you weren't dripping wet.

You let out a sigh and stand up, your towel still laying on the ground leaving you stark naked.

"Might as well..." You whisper to yourself, looking at the dust around the house.

You grab your cane and walk over to the window by the door, shutting it so no passerby's would see you nude, you shut the window by the bed as well. You begin searching around the house for a duster, or anything that could be used as a duster, you search through the shelves and drawers of what would be the kitchen area, but you find nothing, only very old and (to nobodies surprise) dusty kitchenware. You search through Nacius's dresser at the end of his bed, again, you find nothing. You sigh and walk back in front of the hearth, staring at the flames, you look down at the wet towel you had used to cover yourself, it was no duster, but it's better than nothing right?

"Whatever..." You whisper as you bend over and pick up the wet towel, you walk over to the front door and open it just slightly, you hold the towel outside and wring out all the water you could, before closing the door. It was still wet, but not dripping, just a bit damp, to test how well it could pick up dust, you run the towel over the top of the hearth, while it wasn't as good as a normal feather duster, it was still something.

"Better than nothing..." You say to yourself as you begin dusting around the house.

You first got around the hearth, looking down at the floor you knew you would need a mop or something for that, a simple towel or duster wouldn't be able to pick up the sheer amount of dust that was just sitting there. Every now and then you'd look down at your body and feel, eventually when you were dry enough, you put your clothing from earlier back on, it wasn't dirty since you weren't the one stomping grapes earlier. Over time as you dusted, you had the place looking quite nice, well, quite nice for an almost completely abandoned house, you look down to the towel which was just covered in dust, you give it a quick shake and a whole cloud of it comes shooting off, making you cough.

You open the door and walk outside, you begin shaking the towel hoping to get all of the dust off before you go back in. You look around you and you were surprised how late it was, by the looks of it, it looked like it was the late afternoon. You look off into the distance at Skingrad, no sign of Nacius, but he hasn't been gone for too long, so you aren't worried. Once you are done shaking off the towel, you head back inside and continue. You dust the table, the shelves, the kitchen area, the dresser, you got things quite presentable, there wasn't even that much dust floating around you anymore, satisfied with your work you walk over to the bookshelf and look for a new book.

You pick out an old bestiary, you didn't know why Nacius would have this, but you decided to just have a look through it while you wait for him to get home. You take a seat at the table and begin thumbing through the pages, looking at the sketches of the creatures that could be found throughout Tamriel, from the Wormmouths of the reach, to the Rootworms in Black Marsh. You weren't really reading any of the text, just looking at the drawings, admiring the detail, you began to wonder what you could find about Elsweyr, as you flipped through the book, looking for something familiar to you, you hear footsteps outside. Turning to look at the door you hear a knock on the door.

"I've got my hands full here love, mind opening the door?" Nacius calls, the door muffling his voice.

You get up and open the door, he wasn't lying, he had quite a big box of food items and some seasoning. Nacius set it down on the table on top of the book, wiping sweat off of his brow.

"Nacius! You should've waited, Sanna would've helped you carry this back home!" You say.

"Oh relax, I needed the work out." He replies.

"Well Sanna thinks between the grape stomping and our little rut, you've had enough working out for the day." You tell him.

You walk over to the chair and pull it out, pointing to it.

"Take a seat, Sanna will put these things away." You command.

"Heh, alright then..." He says before taking a seat.

Nacius looks around the house, noticing the dusting you've been doing and smiles.

"You dusted? I could've done that." He says.

"Sanna needs to make herself useful around here, thought she could start by getting rid of this annoying dust." You reply.

"Well, you did a good job..." He replies.