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Siara N'Gola: Siara's Song
Topic Started: Jun 27 2016, 09:43 PM (4,210 Views)
Serethil
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I repeat, you are all very kind! Thanks.... and - well.... yeah, intrigue.... Siara's a - different sort of character. And I'm only just beginning to realize how different....
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Kane
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Excellent work, Sere. I just got caught up, and I can't wait to see where her story takes her!
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monkeyemoness
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I thought the way she dealt with Saadia. Probably best not to get involved with tricky business, especially when things are well enough left alone.
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Siara N'Gola 19:

Sunsrise was really beautiful - I took a moment to run up to Dragonsreach and faced east so I could see it perfectly. There were a few puffy white clouds, and as the sun rose over the knees of the mountain, the colors were more than glorious - I thought probably the Garden of the Gods would not be more beautiful.

Cheered immensely by the beauty of this new land, I headed down to Warmaidens. Adrianne was waiting, piles of ore by the smelter, piles of hides by the tanning rack. I bowed briefly, then asked “What would you like me to start on?”

“Well, have you done either tanning or smelting?”

“Both - I’m better at smelting though. Tanning takes a steadier hand than I’ve had opportunity to develop.”

“Good then. I’ll deal with the hides, while you make bars out of the ore. I hope this doesn’t take all day - I’d like to get some rough-ins done today too.”

So we set to. It was hot tiring work, but I had to think about what I was doing, so I wasn’t worrying over things like which daedric prince. All to the good then! We had the ore and hides done by nooning; stopping briefly for a bit, we went up to the inn for something to eat and drink.

Afternoon saw me roughing in swords and axes, then making leather strips for handle wraps. By sundown, I was dragging. For a wonder, so was Adrianne. Ulfberth came out, locking up the shop.

“Now then. Enough. We need a meal, and then rest. Come along, the both of you. The two prettiest women in town, and off to the inn it is with me - one on each side!”

We both chuckled, but went along. Dinner was good, but I was all but asleep by the time I finished a plate and a mug. I bowed myself away, telling Adrianne I’d see her in the morning. She looked grateful. I went up to bed, and slept without dreaming at all.

In the morning, I bought another bath - I’d been too tired to think about it the night before. And I’d need one again this night probably. But at least there was a bathing room available - unlike some places! Thank the gods for hot water and soap....
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Ahhh, the rest of hard work and toil. Does both a body and a mind good! Enjoying her day-to-day interactions; not only with the people, but the land. :)
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Excellent Sere! :D
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Beautifully descriptive as always... I love watching the sun rise and set..
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And so do I. Just right now, I'm stuck in bed a LOT too much - I really only need about 5 hours of sleep, which would be midnight to 5 am in a perfect world - so I could have my first cup of coffee as the sun comes up. But husband's a - um.... not sure how to put it.... (Well, I am sure - but it's not really nice. He's dependent. He is, and always has been, so it's not changing....) If I'm not in bed, he (supposedly) can't sleep.... and if he doesn't get 10+ hours, he naps the entire rest of the day if he's not busy. Now, really.... he sleeps just fine if I'm not there - but he wakes up, I'm not there (because I'm NOT SLEEPY DAMN IT) and panics.... As if I'd go somewhere and die or whatever.... Sheesh.

PITA.
Edited by Serethil, Jul 12 2016, 09:53 PM.
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Ya know, I know exactly what ya mean. Even though we work really different hours, someone expect's me to go to bed ( and wake up ) at the same time he does. ATM of course, he's keeping my hours.
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Well, yeah - but he's not just being old and cranky. He'll get beyond that once he's back to normal.
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True that...
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Siara:

Helping Adrianne with the Imperial order had improved my abilities at metalwork. My father had started me at smithing when I was relatively young, showing me how to work metal to make my first small daggers. He’d been a bit unhappy that I had no interest in swords - but a bow and dual daggers were what I gravitated to from my early years, so he forbore to chide me. He helped me as much as he could; being a swordsman himself, he’d not been very adept with my chosen weapons. I’d taught myself until I was walking out with Amark; he was good with a bow, and gave me pointers. And then they were all gone....

By this third day, Adrianne was caught up, and the Battle-Borns were presumably happy. I decided to bathe, have a good meal, and an early night - and leave in the morning, to travel this land a bit. I wanted to go to Solitude, and Windhelm - I was told those cities were something to see - the first being Skyrim’s capital city, and the other being perhaps the oldest human city in the province, with the palace supposedly having been built by Ysgramor himself. I considered I would be a tourist for a while, and then see what might happen.

Well. As ill-advised moves go, that one was exceptional. Walking in the gate of Solitude after the long carriage-ride there, I stumbled into an execution. Cold grue washed over me as the man’s severed head rolled off the edge of the raised block and stopped just short of my feet. I swallowed hard, and looked up at the crowd of people there to watch the end of that man’s life. I stepped back a full pace from the head.

From the conversations around me, I understood that this man, a gate-guard, had allowed a murderer to leave the city instead of arresting him. And that the murdered man was Skyrim’s High King, Torygg.... and the murderer was the Jarl of Eastmarch, Ulfric Stormcloak - who considered himself Skyrim’s true High King. Oh gods, just let me out of this!

But turning to leave immediately might cause people to think there was a problem. I didn’t want that! So I moved toward the inn, which was for some unknown reason named The Winking Skeever. I shuddered. I detest skeever. Yes, I’m aware many of these Nords of Skyrim eat the tail meat, but - well, skeever are vermin, and I’m not eating parts of them....

I paid for a night at the inn, and ordered a meal - NOT skeever. In fact it was some sort of fruit and venison stew, plus another dish - yams baked in butter - and fresh-baked bread with good butter alongside. I ordered as well a nice wine, and removed to a table in a far corner. I wanted to be out of view as much as possible.

Sometimes, one’s supposedly best idea is certainly anything but. Apparently my wanting to be a tourist was one of those. I sighed. The gods have NO sense of proportion.
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Oh well done Sere. I can just feel her disgust at the execution scene and the feeling she'd "stepped into it" yet again without even trying! :)
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Heh. Siara's a disaster magnet. She doesn't know it yet.... but I do. I don't know how it happened....
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Her reaction was perfect, very welll done! :)
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Nice, love her reaction. .. that darn head manages to roll all over the place, it's down right creepy.
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Yeah... creepy is the operative word. I REALLY want an addon to fix that. Serious. Yes, I could kill someone who was intent on mayhem - and killing me - but man that's a whole other thing....
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yeah...now there's a small mod someone could make... perhaps a simple basket that his head falls into. Like the Stormcloaks does, so that it doesn't roll around and disappears when it should.
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The sunrise with Siara was just lovely. Ugh, the rolling head. What a welcome to Solitude. Well, at least the meal is nice! Hopefully she’ll get a good rest to go with it.
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Siara's Tale:

Over my meal and wine, I thought about things: about a dragon burning a whole town; and a headsman - as well as his target; about a gate guard allowing a Jarl of another Hold to leave, after said Jarl had supposedly murdered the High King of Skyrim - a gate-guard who said it was a challenge accepted by the High King, and therefore fair combat according to the age-old rede of Skyrim’s Nords.

I thought about the obvious Imperial presence in Skyrim. Now, at home, we knew of the Empire - and of the machinations of the Aldmeri Dominion (and in fact, we’d thrown the damned elves out of Hammerfell - without help from the princes....) Hmmm.... there was something there.... but whatever that thought was, I lost it. Well, if it was important, it would surface again.

My thoughts were.... not comfortable. I’d thought Skyrim sounded clean. Unfortunately, it seemed I was more than mistaken.

No help for it. I was here now, and I wasn’t minded to travel anywhere else in the immediate future - because.... well.... I really didn’t know where else I might want to go then, did I? No.... and really - anywhere else would probably have similar issues - unless I went home to face down Dagon or whatever unholy combination of daedra had meddled with Fenbaggan for whatever perverted reason.

I definitely did NOT want to do that. So home wasn’t an option at this point. I thought I’d probably find the flood still as I’d left it - magics do that.... I shivered. I purely HATED magic and mages. There was no magic in my soul. None. The local witch had tested me at puberty, as she did all the children in turn. Her lip had turned as if she smelled something bad. “Nothing. You couldn’t even light a candle. Go back to your weapons, girl. That’s the only possible use for you.”

I’d been happy enough to get out of her reach. Sour old stick, she was, only happy when she could co-opt a youngling to feed her magics.... On that note, I realized I’d finished every scrap and sip of the meal, and decided bed was a good idea. So would be a bath in the morning, assuming this inn had one of those lovely bathing rooms.

The best laid plans.... as I started for the innkeeper in the morning, a Redguard entered the common room. I glanced at him, then continued for another step. And then stopped short. And turned to the man.

“Anduraga?”

He bowed, the full honor-bow. “Lady, as you see.”

“What are you doing here?” I was - taken aback, and worried.

“Lady. If we could sit, and talk....?”

I nodded, motioned him toward the table in the far corner where I’d had my meal the night before, and turned to Sorex who was minding the counter. “Coffee?” He nodded. “Good then. Two mugs, and breakfast - two plates, whatever it is. Thank you.”

Then I went to the table and sat across from the caravan master. I had a really bad feeling about this....
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