Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-10906938-20140802164357/@comment-10906938-20140823195956

As the courier rode along, he watched the countryside pass by.

Ranic had decided to take the direct approach. He came up behind the courier and whacked him with a iron bar. He slumped in his saddle, and Ranic helped him to the ground and Endriel took the reins of his horse and led it away.

The courier awoke in a chair, bound wrist and ankle by rope. He could see a man in front of him rifling through his bag. As he was about t say something, the man turned. "I see you're back with us. Good. You can answer some questions of ours. See, me and my associates have been away fro this area for some time. We would like to know what sort of events are conspiring in Riften, specifically around a certain Tarynn Vithral."

The courier's face was stone. "I won't tell you anything. I've taken oaths."

"I've taken lives. Many. A nasty buisness, but necessary when people are not cooperating. If you insist on refusing, I'll get what I want from these letters and dispose of you. If you speak up, I may be lenient."

The courier took a moment. Then he started talking. He told Ranic about how Tarynn had been named Thane, but was acting like he had been named steward. Not that he was misusing his power. Things hadn't been better in Riften in ages. the port was bustling, merchants were taking to the roads with little fear of brigands, and the coffers were filling. Vithral had raised quite a crowd of admirers, especially from the Dunmer population. He had taken command of the city guard some time ago. All Laila had been doing, it seemed, was putting her seal on the papers Tarynn had put before her. Many would talk of her jealousy of Vithral and her reluctance to relinquish powers to him, but she could not deny the improvements he had brought.