Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140708165409/@comment-3293219-20140708165447

Tiberionus’ face remained stony, but inside, he was nervous. He approached the Bosmer from before, but stopped as he saw that he was… different.

Before him stood an armoured figure, the armour was dark green, the colour of pestilence. It was an intense metal that would remind those in the know of Madness armour, with a skull on the chest, two ghostly like people for pauldrons, who looked like they were being sucked inside and were clawing at the air to be free. The chest resembled a deathly face, not a skull but very thin and weak face, like a draugr or a well aged zombie or fallen.

At his hips hung his Katanas, one was a normal katana a beautifully crafted weapon, worthy of any blade Captain, custom build for someone, who obviously wasn’t Set. The other was a weapon that would send a chill through the soul of any mortal man; it emitted the smell of rotting flesh as it leaked acid and slowly dripped it onto the floor, wherever its wielder went, blighting the land beneath it.

The man in armour turned around, the only things visible were his eyes but they were enough to strike fear into Tiberionus, one was pure white, milky like and the other was like a laser, an intense light, which shone inside the Bosmer’s skull, both eyes were surrounded by a mass of pale skin, even his intense burn marks were paler than normal…

He looked…barely alive… Set was pale as death, the Dunmer swallowed. His grip tighter than before as he waited…

“You…are not meant for this world…” Tiberonius muttered, his own light purple armour striking an intimidating presence. One that would make any normal man nervous. Set, was no ordinary man however.

“Do you…know why I’m here to kill you?”

"No..." Set replied, honestly, his voice was heavily malfested, due to the corruption of the blight and Namira's presence over him.

"I don't know anythin' about you..."

“I am the one who has been looking after the mother of your kid…” Tiberionus said slowly, his voice shaking as he tried to keep his rage under control.

“I was there, watching you as you destroyed her.” He seethed, planting his axe in the ground and rolling his shoulders.

“As you broke her mind and her heart!

She hasn’t slept in a week!”

Set just stood, narrowing his eyes and listening to Tiberionus' introduction, slowly folding his arms.

"Were you there when she left me?" He asked, calmly, without any sign of fear or hesitation in his voice.

“No…” The Dunmer admitted, folding his own arms and glaring at the Bosmer.

<p class="MsoNormal">“But she told me. Told me she felt so worthless, so… hurt that she was causing you to be unhappy, she knew you’d be better off without her. But…” Tib muttered, rocking his head. “It seems…she was…wrong. I think she realised it as soon as she saw you last week.”

<p class="MsoNormal">"I told her not to go, I begged her to stay, yet she went anyway..." Set muttered, spitefully as he narrowed his eyes, practically spitting every word, like the words were so poisonous that they were burning his tongue. To Tiberionus' surprise, he hadn't blinked the entire time that they were talking...

<p class="MsoNormal">"She was wrong, I told her that she was wrong, I told her that she was the only thing of value, the only thing I cared about and she still left. Left me with nothin' but regret and guilt..." As he spoke, the laser like light in his skull intensified as he got more and more enraged, it got so bright that Tiberionus had to squint a little but eventually Set paused, to calm himself down.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus blinked several times, barely moving in his attempt to out intimidate him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And then she realised she fucked up.” He added, his tone growing angrier.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Every day. All day. She whispers your name and laughs. Like she’s pretending you’re actually there. She has a fucking baby in her man! Your baby!” The Dunmer snapped, stepping forward.

<p class="MsoNormal">"For all I know, it's Aratius' or one of those other rapist fuck’s..." The Knight seethed, staying perfectly still, not even flinching as Tiberionus stepped forward.

<p class="MsoNormal">"Even if it is mine... It don't matter, she should've thought of that before she fucked off for the millionth fuckin' time!"

<p class="MsoNormal">“She didn’t know she was pregnant until we found her all alone in the middle of the fucking woods!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Tib growled, his voice rising as he placed a loose hand on the top of his axe, staining his hand in Methrals blood.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’s only a month gone. It’s yours! And you’ve fucking left her to handle it herself!?” He spat on the dead grass.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She told me you were kind, a great guy…” The Dunmer shook his head, sighing heavily.

<p class="MsoNormal">“All I see?” He questioned, raising his other hand in a shrug.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Is a prick…”

<p class="MsoNormal">"She told you right...

<p class="MsoNormal">I were kind, I were good to her, I was always there, no matter what…

<p class="MsoNormal">And look what happened!" Set snapped, the beam that replaced his eye became more and more intense by the second, with no pupil in his eye and no idea what facial expression he was showing, it was a wonder as to whether this rage was brought on by sadness or not.

<p class="MsoNormal">Was he even capable of feeling such emotions anymore?

<p class="MsoNormal">"All that you see is what's left, after everything that was good was torn out and left to rot in the dirt! I lost everythin,' that day!"

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus shook his head, picking up his axe and resting it on his shoulder, a smirk spreading on his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And still, she wants to come crawling back to you. She is crazy about you, you know? The way she launched herself at you without a second thought…” He sighed again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“How is she gonna react when she sees this?”

<p class="MsoNormal">"She'll get over it..." Set muttered, bringing his arms down and gently wrapping his fingers around the hilts of his swords.

<p class="MsoNormal">"I don't think she gave a fuck about you to begin with!" He ended on a roar as he lunged forward, hoping to drive both swords into Tiberionus' chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus stepped out the way, the smirk still on his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She told me you two were…connected you know?” He remarked, slamming the base of his axe into his spine, causing Set to stumble forward a few steps, almost falling to the floor but managing to regain his composure.

<p class="MsoNormal">“That you would feel pain whenever she was hurt, right? Do you know how…hard it was for me not to cut her to punish you? You know I walked in on her stabbing her leg out of jealousy. Jealousy over some imaginary woman of all fucking things!” The Dunmer growled, swinging his axe back up onto his shoulder.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Can’t you feel her mind deteriorating? How is she supposed to raise a kid when she isn’t even there!? You are the one who keeps her sane. No matter how hard I’ve tried, it’s always ‘Set, Set, Set.’ He rubbed his eyes, pacing around the Bosmer before he stopped and swung his axe down. “I’m fucking sick of it!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set raised his swords to block the swing the force of which nearly knocked him back, off of his feet as the axe connected with his defence.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well, considerin’ that you care more about hurtin’ me than protectin’ her, I can see why…” Set grumbled, slashing at him with his swords, seemingly unfazed by his injuries.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Does she even want to be with you!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think I already made it clear enough for even you to answer, dumbass.” Tiberionus snarled, letting the katanas bounce off his rather inhumanly large axe.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’s safe anyways. Back in my camp. Wouldn’t want her to go even crazier now would I!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think you’ve maxed out of crazy in that tent…” Set seethed before dropping down and spinning, bringing his foot around and kicking Tiberionus’ knee, in an attempt to take him down.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tib wobbled a little, but otherwise remained unfazed due to the heaviness of his armour. He shook his head, sighing heavily.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You are the one who caused it.” He accused, attempting to boot Set in the shin with his own foot.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set went off balance, stumbling a little to the side as he worked to regain it, shooting his back up and pointing the Sword of Pestilence at the Dunmer, so that the tip was inches away from his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It was her own doing!” He roared, swinging his whole body around and bringing the sword of pestilence around, in a powerful horizontal swing, aimed for Tiberionus’ head.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus ducked rapidly, acid flying off the blade and burning the top of his head. A further few specs landed on the tent and it was soon filled with an almost unbearable odour…The Dunmer used his legs to push himself up, driving his elbow into the Bosmers chin.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then fucking help her fix it!” He bellowed, breathing heavily as he seethed.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set stumbled back, his helmet absorbed most of the blow and he couldn’t feel pain anymore but it still shook him up quite a bit. He glanced over to the side of the tent as the acid specs burned through the thin material, leaving several small holes in the fabric, allowing the light to shine through on the battle.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I helped her through everything!” He roared, swinging the sword of pestilence at his opponent again, this time it was a vertical strike, a heavy handed one at that.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I always took her back, when she hurt me!” He added, slashing at Tiberionus, with his regular katana

<p class="MsoNormal">“She repayed me by leaving!” He shrieked, driving both blades down on Tiberionus’ head.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus blocked the Pestilence blade with the hilt of his axe. Acid dripped onto his armour and began to smoke as it bubbled under the pressure. The strike with the regular blade rocked his side and he staggered slightly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She wanted you to be happy!” Tiberionus retorted, stepping back to avoid the blades.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She knew she was no good for you! She told me how you always got hurt because of her! Fuck man…” He straightened himself and glared at Set, charging forward and swinging at him horizontally with his axe.

<p class="MsoNormal">“But she never stopped loving you! Though I don’t see fucking why!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set raised his Sword of pestilence, grinning slightly as the axe handle began to sizzle and Tiberionus was forced to pull away before his axe broke in two.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Don’t you see? Nothing that you do will ever be good enough, she’ll get herself hurt, continuously until you’re beaten down and broken and then? Then she’ll leave you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer raised his Sword of Pestilence to his eye, looking at the black tar as it gently rolled down the blade and towards the hilt, there was a sort of cup, like piece, which collected the acid and prevented it from dripping onto Set’s hand.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s only a matter of time before she leaves you to!” He collected the acid for a few moments before swinging again, spraying a hail of acid across the room.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She left for your own good! Why can’t you see that!?” Tiberionus growled from behind the arm he’d raised to protect his face from the acid.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She hated…No…She hates herself for the way she hurt you in the past. She loathes that the only way for her to stop hurting you was to leave you.” The Dunmer shook his head again, scoffing, as he raised his axe once more.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You are her entire world. Can’t you feel it!? Can’t you understand what it’s like to never see someone that special ever again!?” He yelled, swinging his axe down, over his head and hopefully into Sets shoulder.

<p class="MsoNormal">The axe hit his pauldron, with a great deal of force, knocking the head off of one of the small statues and causing the Bosmer to stumble back, showing some emotion in his eyes, for the first time in a long time. First time since all of this began at least, he glanced away with the pained look in his face, the light in his eye had almost extinguished.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know that feeling… I know it too well…” The Bosmer muttered, even with the heavy malfestation in his voice, it was obvious that his sombre tone was one of regret.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’ve felt it too many times, too many times I’ve gotten hurt, got somebody else hurt, hurt someone else by existin’…

<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll never see her again, I’ll never see my wife again, never see Rie again, never see Julie again, Isis… Cyrus…” His voice got a little softer as the old Set began to break through, as he spoke he found his humanity returning as he began to show more and more emotion, tightening his grip on the edge of his sword as he glanced back to Tiberionus, the pained human look quickly evolved into his previous state of rage as the small red light in his eye began to glow again, the intensity of it returning to full power within seconds.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I NEVER WANT TO FEEL IT AGAIN!” He roared, spinning around and slashing both swords at the Dunmer, with as much force as his body could throw.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set!” Tiberionus barked, the sword slicing through the chest piece of his armour.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then why are you alive, hm!?” He bellowed, drawing his fist back and punching the Bosmer in the face to vent his frustration.

<p class="MsoNormal">“If you never want to feel, just go fucking die! Drive everyone crazy with loss! But oh it’s okay. You’ll be dead! You won’t fucking feel fucking anything!” He continued to hit Set as he ranted.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You won’t feel the sorrow! You won’t feel the emptiness! You won’t feel the crushing weight of hopelessness surround you. You won’t hear the voices like she hears! You won’t ever feel pain! Nothing! You’re such a selfish prick if you want to just give up! Fuck… YOU!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I already am dead…” Set seethed before smashing his heavily armoured forehead into Tiberionus’ face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Can’t you see that!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Tib spluttered, spitting the blood out of his mouth and chuckling.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sh-she brought you back from this before.” He whispered, planting his axe in the ground again and raising his fists.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know she will do it again. Even if it means giving up her own life!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then she’s a fuckin’ idiot…” Set seethed, lowering his swords to the side and throwing them down, so that the blades were stuck in the ground.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She should’ve left me dead!” He roared, throwing himself forward and delivering a hefty blow to Tiberionus’ face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“No…” Tiberonius began before he was punched hard in the face. He growled and spat on the dead grass around him. The soft thump of a tooth hitting the ground seemed to echo around the pair.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She seems to think you can do better with life than she can!” He roared as well, launching his fist into Sets gut.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think she is fucking wrong! But I won’t be able to stop her!”

<p class="MsoNormal">The fist hit Set’s armour, with a very loud clunk as the deathly face on the chest had one of its cheek bones broken from the impact, he didn’t know if it had damaged his body or not as he didn’t feel pain, for all he knew, he could have several broken ribs and not even realise, one of the many things that made Namira’s chosen vulnerable.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Heh… Then you how’re you supposed to stop me?” Set replied, running forward and kneeing Tiberionus in the stomach before smashing his forearm into his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus howled in pain. Wiping the blood oozing from his nose.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know that when I kill you, she’ll be so distraught she’ll deal with anyone to get you back! What did she suffer through the last time huh? Fuck she’ll probably offer up her own soul to this Daedric…b-bitch! Just to get you back…” To Sets surprise, the Dunmer seemed to have tears in his darkly red eyes. They shone and glistened in the sun patches before he blinked them away.

<p class="MsoNormal">   He shook his head and began his retaliation, punching the small Bosmer repeatedly in his chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dunmer was stronger than he looked, which was saying something as he was definitely taller than Set, though to be fair, most people were taller than Set, due to the fact that he was a Bosmer. Tiberionus’ iron fist repeatedly slammed into his armour, denting the forehead of the skull on his chest as Set was knocked back, almost falling off of his feet as it felt like he was being hit, head on, by a battering ram.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer, in sheer desperation lashed out with his claw-like fingers, each finger on his gauntlet was tipped and rather sharp. He scratched Tiberionus across the face, hoping to claw at his eye and forcing him to stand down.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She….fucking…loves you!” Tiberionus screamed, slamming him forcefully with his fist.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’d fucking… die for you! Even now!” He seethed, panting in rage as Sets wild scratching only served to piss the warrior off further.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why the fuck would she do that for a pitiful cannibal!” He spat, kneeing his gut and throwing him to the floor, still panting in rage.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set looked up to him, his own eyes shimmering with rage as he lashed out at Tiberionus’ leg, scratching at its heavily armoured surface with his claw-like finger tips, leaving a small graze on it as he jumped back. The Bosmer scrambled to his feet, hearing a small crackling sound as the Sword of Pestilence began to infect the ground around it, making the land cold and blighted and bare as its influence spread.

<p class="MsoNormal">It could be heard over the clashing of swords outside and the occasion spell or the sound of an arrow whizzing through the air as the battle raged on.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why would she do it for a self righteous fuck-wit!?” Set snapped running forward and throwing himself at Tiberionus, knocking them both the ground.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You mean me!?” Tib snapped as he and Set wrestled, rolling around on the dead ground.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She wouldn’t. Cause she don’t feel anything for me! Have you even been…listening!? Or are you really that dumb!” He shouted in his face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s you! It always has been you! And it always will be you!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set head butted him as soon as his face got close enough, grabbing hold of the Dunmer’s throat and pulling his face closer to his.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Exactly… Even when I’m scum, you’re still fuckin’ nothin’! That’s how fuckin’ pathetic you are!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yes. I’m pathetic for looking after my people and wanting to rid the world of injustice…” Tib mocked, rolling his eyes and gripping Sets wrist as he pulled himself free.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dark elf stood up, still holding onto the Wood Elf’s stick like arm and pulled him close, his eyes narrowing.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You are speaking to the one who will free this place of crime!” He barked.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I am not pathetic! I am strong. I am powerful! I am the best! And…” He paused, baring his teeth in an incredibly forced smile at him. “I am far better than you!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“C-Course you are… That’s why you’ve come here, to kill my people, forced everyone in these walls to take up arms! Killing any man, woman or child who doesn’t agree with your idea of justice, as I said…” He finished by shoving Tiberionus off, knocking him to the floor as he scrambled to his feet, turning around and approaching his swords, grasping the hilts of them as he looked over his shoulder.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Self…

<p class="MsoNormal">Righteous…” As he said this, he finally managed to pluck them from the ground, spinning around and slashing at the Dunmer, with a heavy horizontal swing, aiming to chop him in half as they came face to face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I was only coming here, for you!” Tiberionus growled.

<p class="MsoNormal">“They were the ones who struck first! They were corrupted by you!” He gasped out, dodging back but gaining a slightly heavy cut in his stomach area. He turned round and wrapped his hand around his battleaxe.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You turned them into those…Fallen…things…” He seethed, shaking as the anger mounted up inside him again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Do not…come to me and say I’m the pathetic, self righteous one, when this is all.

<p class="MsoNormal">Your.

<p class="MsoNormal">FAULT!” Tiberionus screamed in rage, tearing his axe out the ground and following through, using the momentum to spin in a circle before he swung the axe over his head, driving it down towards Set.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set raised his swords, making them into a cross shape as he took on the Dunmer’s heavy blow, which knocked him back, causing him to stagger as his arms continued to tremble from the impact. He fell back into the light, which shone upon his face, from the tiny bullet-like holes which were plentiful around the tent, thanks to Set and his Sword of Pestilence.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s my fault that you chose to come here? Just to prove to Julie that you’re better than me?” The Bosmer mocked, slowly raising his swords to meet Tiberionus’ axe.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You can’t even convince yourself of that, so what fuckin’ hope do you have of convincin’ her!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set burst forward, slashing his right sword down to the bottom left, left sword down to the bottom right, then his right sword slashed horizontally to the left and then his left mirrored it. He finished by stamping forward and slashing both swords across his chest, finishing so that his body was like a T shape as he slashed across Tiberionus’ chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus gasped in pain, stumbling backwards from the Bosmer’s relentless assault. He fell back, slamming his axe down and holding onto it for support.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I ch-chose to come here, to put an end to what you’ve become. Sh-she don’t d-deserve to see you like this again. W-we both kn-know what she truly needs r-right?” He asked, swallowing hard as his voice wavered from the sheer pain he was in.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh, cut the shit, we both know that you’re only doin’ this so she’ll let you fuck her, you don’t care…

<p class="MsoNormal">At least I fuckin’ did!” The Bosmer seethed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“O-oh? You d-didn’t kn-know?” Tiberionus chuckled weakly; it turned into a pained cough as blood flew out his throbbing mouth.

<p class="MsoNormal">“W-we a-already d-did…” He laughed again, falling forward as he struggled to get the axe out the ground. It felt like it weighed a tonne. “I t-took advantage of her g-grief. T-tried to be like y-you!” He grinned.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And it w-was w-working. Un-until we ran into y-you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set just glared at him, his rage was bested only by his pity for the pathetic, self righteous worm that knelt before him. The Bosmer was struggling to feel any emotion but anger at this point but even now, he could feel a sense of.

<p class="MsoNormal">Distain…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Heh… Explain again how you’re ‘better’ than me…

<p class="MsoNormal">You’ve attacked my home, my people, forced everyone who was able to take up a sword to fight and the rest to flee for their lives! You took advantage of Julie, when she was goin’ mad with grief!

<p class="MsoNormal">You’re more of a fuckin’ scumbag than I’ve ever been…

<p class="MsoNormal">And you know this… don’t you?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Course I’m a scumbag.” Tiberionus laughed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I r-retaliated after your people shot first. I l-looked after the mother of your f-fucking k-kid…” The Dunmer gasped, finally freeing his axe and stumbled backwards from the sheer momentum.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m t-taking care of y-your inj-j-justice!” The Dunmer shambled forwards, dragging his axe along the ground as he slowly walked towards Set.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m f-f-fixing the world one a-a-asshole at a time! And when all the a-assholes are g-gone? I’ll be the o-one the people l-look up to. I’ll b-be the f-fucking Emperor of N-nirn!” He glanced up at Set, grinning wickedly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And you will be the dust in the air th-that’ll drift by me when I’m f-f-fucking my Queen!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Heh… Well, you don’t seem to be killin’ all the assholes, since you get a free pass…” Set mocked, picking up his swords.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Still, seein’ that you’re no better than that fuckin’ piece of shit, Telemachus, I guess I’m just goin’ to have to kill you to.” He grumbled getting into his stance, holding the Sword of Pestilence horizontally and his normal sword above his head, he couldn’t do it the other way around for obvious reasons.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then Julie’ll be free…” Set whispered, barely audibly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Nirn’ll be safe…” He then paused again, this time staring his enemy in the face, using the many reasons that he had to despise the Dunmer to give himself strength.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And you’ll be in the fuckin’ ground, where you belong!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set finished by lunging forward, driving both swords down onto the Dunmer, sending acid flicking up into the air and sticking to the roof of the tent, some of it fell down on the two combatants, though their armour managed to protect them from the acidic rain.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh? You want her to be free do you?” Tiberionus remarked, dragging his axe around to block his blades as the two Mer clashed again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“But what if…being with me while I comfort her through her heartbreak brings her happiness? What if she just…chooses to stay?” He smirked, determination in his eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal">“F-face it Skinny. Sh-she’ll never be free…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Not while you breathe…” Set seethed, bringing his normal sword around and slashing at his torso.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tib groaned, wincing as the blade made another slash in his chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I-if n-not me, s-someone else will come along and t-take her. Sh-she can’t even r-recognise the w-world right now!” He brought his hand around, clutching tightly on Sets arm.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Admit it Skinny. Y-you loved to play th-the hero and r-rescue her…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’s you… I saw her for who she really is.

<p class="MsoNormal">She’s like me, steppin’ on that boat that day, not knowin’ where she was goin’.” As he spoke, his voice got less malfested again as he began to calm down and became a little more saddened, he slowly stopped resisting Tib’s grip as he thought on it some more.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Both of us existed, ‘till that day… D-Didn’t know why, guess it was just better than us dyin’…

<p class="MsoNormal">We were both lost… We found eachother and I saw that she was a strong woman, who cared more about me and Rie more than anythin’ in the world.” He yanked his arm away, glancing up and catching Tiberionus’ eye.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Those scars? She got them, protectin’ us… She stayed behind, while me and Rie were taken away and before you get fuckin’ smug about it, I didn’t want that! She offered to go through that shit again and again, she got raped, tortured, beaten, stabbed, nearly killed for me!

<p class="MsoNormal">That’s who she is! That’s who she’ll always be!” Tiberionus could hear the rattling as his sword trembled in his hand, the hand guard rattling against the blade.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She ain’t… Fuckin’ cattle!” Set snapped striking out, with his sword of pestilence, hitting Tiberionus horizontally as he swung the blade towards the Dunmer’s arm.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Exactly!” Tiberionus chuckled. “She’s gone back to simply…existing because she gave you up!” He cried out, releasing his grip on Set as his arm roared in pain, the flesh sizzling and smoking.

<p class="MsoNormal">   “Shh-she is lost in the void of her own mind without you. And still. She is looking for you. You kn-know how strong she is!” He reminded his foe.

<p class="MsoNormal">“D-d’you really think she stayed put in my f-fucking camp!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“No, though she never did like bein’ a prisoner… Brings back a lot of bad memories.” Set grumbled, hatefully.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well, she’s her own prisoner now…” Tiberionus chuckled, panting and falling back onto the ground, groaning as he let his injuries consume him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’s searching for her saviour though.

<p class="MsoNormal">I w-wish her l-luck…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Me to…” Set whispered, bringing his sword up to Tiberionus’ chin, placing the tip of the blade under it and forcing him to look up to him before driving the blade into the Dunmer’s stomach.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-you…dumbass…” Tiberionus wheezed, wrapping his hand around Sets blade, breathing raggedly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’s looking…f-for…y-you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well, she’s too fuckin’ late…” Set grumbled, pressing his boot against Tiberionus’ chest and knocking him back to the floor. Specks of light covered his armour as the rays of the sun burst through the holes in the ceiling, shining onto his armour as he lay on the ground.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She should’ve looked for me last week, when I actually fuckin’ wanted her here…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sh-she di-didn’t ‘cause she was w-with me…” Tiberionus admitted, clutching his gut.

<p class="MsoNormal">   “I d-didn’t let her out of th-the cave… A-ain’t her fault…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Don’t matter; I can’t go back, not like this…” The Bosmer admitted, with a sigh as he hovered his blade of Pestilence over Tiberionus’ wound, letting the acid drip off the end of the blade and fall onto the Dunmer’s wound, the black tar sizzled on impact and steam emitted from it as the wound began to bubble and turn more and more black and blighted, with every drop and the skin around it began to blister and lesion.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s over for me…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“She…ngh…she won’t g-give a f-fuck over your app-appearance, or how badly she’s b-been hurt by you, or h-herself…” Tiberionus groaned, listening to his stomach burning as he fought to stay conscious.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You know th-that…don’t you?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know… It ain’t about that, you know it ain’t…” He replied, almost in a whisper as he slowly brought the sword up, letting the acid drip on Tiberionus’ armour, giving his wound a break as he left a trail of burn marks up his chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Come too far now, done so much and I took this on to protect these people, they’re my life now and I can’t go back. Not without bringin’ the curse to Julie…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer lifted his sword, watching the acid drip onto Tiberionus’ chest, slowly sizzling on contact as his chest plate began to sizzle, due to the intensity of the acid as it continued to drip onto the surface of his armour. Even after all this, what he had done as a human and what he had done as this Undead Overlord, he was still hesitant to kill Tiberionus. He took Julie in, kept her alive, which made him somewhat respectable, even if it was just a way of getting her into his bed. In many ways, he was an answered prayer but she needed someone better than him, someone better than the both of them.

<p class="MsoNormal">She needed…

<p class="MsoNormal">A saviour…

<p class="MsoNormal">By now, the acid had burned a hole through Tiberionus’ armour, reaching through to the clothing underneath, which the Dunmer could already feel, sizzling through his shirt, which was all that was protecting his bare chest…

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus screamed in agony, no longer caring for the shame it made him feel.

<p class="MsoNormal">   “No matter what…” He panted, writhing as the acid finally bit into his flesh.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She…she will look for you! Sh-she won’t st-stop until sh-she finds you again. Her…her k-kid’ll need it’s d-dad…” He whispered weakly, his body shaking in pain.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’ll n-need her hu-husband. Sh-she’ll find you Set. And when she does?” The Dunmer closed his eyes, finding it took too much energy to look and talk at the same time. Talking was more important right now anyways…

<p class="MsoNormal">“She’ll…stay…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer thought about it some more as he lowered the sword and glanced away, obviously hesitating but he had gone too far now…

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know…” Set whispered, raising the sword again and hovering it over Tiberionus’ chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’s what makes this so damn hard…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Before the Dunmer could respond to his admittance, Set raised the sword above his head but to both of their surprise a squelching could be heard, inside his stomach, like he had been stabbed. The Bosmer squawked as the pain shot through his stomach, blood came gushing out like a fountain and stained the chainmail around his stomach and dribbled down his tasset as the blood ran through the crevices in the armour and dripped off of the folds, where the plates connected.

<p class="MsoNormal">He looked up to Tiberionus, his mouth was agape, which obviously couldn’t be seen under the mouthpiece on his helmet but the shock in his eyes showed it…

<p class="MsoNormal">Set was in pain…

<p class="MsoNormal">He gasped, his breath stammering as he repeatedly breathed into his mouthpiece, panting heavily in panic as he stumbled back, dropping both swords to the ground.

<p class="MsoNormal">“J-Julie…” He whispered, obviously pained but it wasn’t clear what was debilitating him more, the fact that he had been stabbed or the fact that Julie had been stabbed or perhaps it was both. Either way, Set stumbled back and fell to the floor, with a thud, lay on his back, coughing up blood and convulsing…

<p class="MsoNormal">

<p class="MsoNormal">Tiberionus pulled himself over to Set, pulling out the one health potion he’d brought with him in case of emergencies. “W-well…th-this is a pretty damned huge emergency…” He muttered, knowing he was going to regret it as he tipped the potion into Sets mouth once he’d gotten him to stop convulsing.

<p class="MsoNormal">“My…my…Qu-queen n-needs…you…M-more than she will ever n-need me…”

<p class="MsoNormal">-

<p class="MsoNormal">Unknown to the two men, another great battle was being fought here…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Where are you!?” Julie laughed cheerily, spinning around and grinning as she stared up into the pink, barely sun kissed skies of Tamriel.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Haha…S-set!? I kn-know you’re here! I’ll s-stay like I p-promised!”

<p class="MsoNormal">-

<p class="MsoNormal">At the center of the battle field, several residents of Camp Alessia fought off Tiberionus’ forces, they went down from 4 to 1 in a matter of seconds as an old Nord and two younger Imperial men were cut down by the invading forces.

<p class="MsoNormal">All that was left was a Dunmer girl, she was short and skinny and she looked like she had never held a blade in her life. In this case, her looks weren’t entirely deceiving as Lilith truly hadn’t fought in a battle before and she had hoped to avoid battle altogether.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set and Methral had, had everyone on a tight training schedule over the last few days to prepare for the relentless assault that was inbound. The Bosmer didn’t like the idea of Lilith fighting in the battle but he agreed that she needed to learn to defend herself. The Dunmer had some experience in combat, fighting wolves and even a bear as she helped her family defend her homestead but this was many years ago and she often relied on the help of her father, who wasn’t here today…

<p class="MsoNormal">She stumbled back as Tiberionus’ forces advanced on her, brandishing various weapons, great axes, great swords and the middle one just used two maces. If one were to look at this situation from a distance, you’d thing that they were the cursed monsters the ‘Fallen’ as some had called them.

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-Stay back!” She called, raising her weapons, a long steel sword, with a fatigue enchantment on it and a steel dagger. Lilith pointed her steel sword at them, though it was obvious from the fact that it trembled in her grip that she was afraid.

<p class="MsoNormal">Tib’s men grinned as they began to advance on the seemingly defenceless Dunmer, finding themselves taken by surprise as they heard the enraged battle cries of several Fallen as they hopped down from the platforms above, knocking the three warriors to the ground and hacking them to pieces with their weapons.

<p class="MsoNormal">Lileth used this moment as a chance to escape, she turned around and began to flee the battlefield, Set was the only reason that she was there and the only thing that she cared about right now. Therefore she ran away from the heart of the battlefield, running over to the furthest corners of the camp, seeing a Dunmer, strangely yelling in a singsong voice.

<p class="MsoNormal">The girl wasn’t one of the ‘Fallen’ or even a member of this camp; she would have recognised her, if she was…

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dunmer slowly approached the girl, somewhat hesitant to actually start speaking to her but managed to find the courage anyway…

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-Hello?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie paused in her happy quest to find her beloved.

<p class="MsoNormal">''The fuck is she!? She looks a lot like me…'' The Dunmer stared at the other and giggled.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-hiii!” She sang, gliding and spinning her way over to Lillith. She stopped suddenly again, sniffing…

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith stepped back, looking a bit put off by the fact that this strange girl was skipping about, dancing and singing, in the middle of a battlefield of all places.

<p class="MsoNormal">It was then that she noticed that this girl wasn’t actually speaking, at least not vocally, her messages were telepathic. Perhaps that’s what made her this way…

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-Hi…” Lilith whispered, almost laughing at the ridiculousness of this Dunmer’s manner but she remained polite as this girl didn’t exactly look stable.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Are you… Okay?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie giggled and shook her head, skipping close to the other Dunmer.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I l-lost s-so-something!” She mumbled, nodding rapidly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-something v-ve-very precious! T-t-to m-me.” Julie smiled broadly, twirling round Lillith, resuming her sporadic laughter.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh dear…” Lilith muttered, though she couldn’t help sounding sarcastic as she felt uncomfortable in this Dunmer’s presence and it was taking its toll on her behaviour.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Erm… M-Maybe I can help you find it?” She offered, not feeling right about leaving this mentally unstable woman alone in the middle of a warzone.

<p class="MsoNormal">“What is it that you’re looking for?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“A p-person! A…s-small p-p-person!” Julie chuckled, throwing her arms up into the sky, one hand still, noticeably clasped around her sheathed katana.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-he’s a…a…p-pirate!” Julie exclaimed suddenly, gasping happily and running up to Lillith, pausing right in front of her face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“A s-s-small pirate p-person!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Small… ‘Pirate’ person?” Lilith asked, folding her arms and tilting her head slightly, allowing her long black hair to skim her exposed shoulder.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I think that we’re a little far from water for pirates…” She said, with a nervous smile.

<p class="MsoNormal">“P-p-patch!” Julie stammered, covering one of her eyes with her free hand.

<p class="MsoNormal">“L-like us but…l-little-er!” She added, crouching down to Sets height.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Ah… An eyepatch.” She chuckled, folding her arms and swaying from side to side.

<p class="MsoNormal">“And he’s short… Is he a Dunmer, like you?” She asked, glancing over her shoulder to check if they were out of harm’s way, which they were…

<p class="MsoNormal">For now…

<p class="MsoNormal">“N-no!” Julie shrieked, stepping back and looking around before her face relaxed and she smiled again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“F-f-forest us!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Forest us?” She asked, looking incredibly confused at her outburst, wondering if it was some sort of riddle, an unintentional riddle but a riddle none the less.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Eyepatch and he’s a forest… Us… Not a dunmer… Forest elf…

<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, a Wood elf!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-yes!” Julie crowed, happily.

<p class="MsoNormal">“W-wood elf. Little pirate. H-handsome…” Lilith whispered, pointing to her scarred face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Wood elf, short, eye patch… Attractive…” This was almost Set down to a T but not many women would label him as attractive, not with those burns, scars and the fact that he was missing an eye…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Okay… What’s his hair like?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-s-spiky!” Julie stammered, pulling her own hair into a poor excuse of a mohawk rather aggressively.

<p class="MsoNormal">“N-not anymore. L-long…” She whispered, pulling the hair forwards until it flopped over her face, her smile just visible through the wild tangled mane.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Long… Black hair…” Lilith replied, almost breathlessly as this was starting to sound more and more like Set, she reached up to her own face and dragged her fingers along the places where she remembered Set having scars.

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-Scars?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Azura’s mercy, now I’m doing it…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-yes! L-lots of em!” Julie nodded, growing more excited as she got closer to finding him. She rolled up her shirt, revealing her stomach.

<p class="MsoNormal">“L-l-lods h-h-ere!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith looked to Julie’s stomach as she pointed to it, wondering whether or not she was still talking about this man or whether she had changed the topic of conversation onto herself now as her own stomach had its fair share of scars. Lilith didn’t know what had caused the injuries but one of the scars, which looked quite intense, looked like a deep stab wound, which had a large gash across her stomach.

<p class="MsoNormal">She then noticed that the Dunmer’s stomach was slightly raised and rounded, indicating a number of things, she didn’t look fat, in fact her arms were quite small and had quite a bit of muscle on them from her combat experience. She had an intense scar on her throat, like it had been slit at some point or another and her face; arms, chest and neck were littered with tiny scars.

<p class="MsoNormal">She then remembered that she had been staring at this Dunmer’s stomach for some time now, she pulled away and slowly looked back to her face and gave her a nervous smile.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Does he have… Burns?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-yes!” Julie repeated, clapping her hands together and dancing round in a circle.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-here…” She pointed to her face before sliding her hand down to her chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Here t-too…” The Dunmer giggled.

<p class="MsoNormal">''It couldn’t be… Could it? There’s no way…''

<p class="MsoNormal">“What’s his name?” Lilith asked, almost kicking herself for not asking this before, since it was the obvious question…

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-s-s-s…Se..SEee…” Julie stammered, her heart racing as she grew more and more excitable. Could she really have found him again?

<p class="MsoNormal">So soon?

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set Oakvale?” Lilith asked, hesitantly, he wasn’t likely to have much patience for this mad woman but… maybe he was a man who possessed the virtue of patience; he always did seem reserved, if nothing else…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Uh-huh!” Julie nodded happily, taking Lilliths hands and dancing around like a happy school child.

<p class="MsoNormal">“M-my Set! H-h-he here y-yes?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith whipped her hand away, looking to the Dunmer with an almost terrified gaze as she stepped back, clearing her throat.

<p class="MsoNormal">“He’s… Here, he and Methral run this community…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dunmer burst into a fit of wild happy laughter. Tears of joy streamed down her face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“M-my Set…” She whispered with a look of love appearing on her face as she hugged her stomach. “My Set…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-You and Set are… Close?” Lilith asked, putting her hands on her hips. She would find the girl’s reaction somewhat endearing, if it weren’t for the fact that she was a complete maniac.

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie nodded slowly. She pointed to herself. “F-f-fiancée” The Dunmer whispered.

<p class="MsoNormal">“J-j-julie!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith’s draw dropped, she hadn’t expected this…

<p class="MsoNormal">His fiancé looked so much like she did; except she was young, incredibly young in fact she probably wasn’t that far into her twenties, which was very young for an elf, almost like a teenager.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-You’re… Julie? The one who…” She stopped herself from saying it as she got a grip on her senses, shutting herself up.

<p class="MsoNormal">“L-left…” Julie finished for her, sadly.

<p class="MsoNormal">   “M-mistake!” She giggled.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Gonna fix!” The Dunmer added before frowning as she sniffed the air again, her eyes narrowing as she looked at Lillith. She took a step closer, sniffing again, smelling the older Dunmer’s hair. She gasped and started to cry, shaking as she did so.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I sm-s-smell him o-on y-y-you! Y-you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">She’s either completely mad or turning into a dog, either way…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie…” She wanted to lie but it was obvious that this girl was onto her and even if she wasn’t, she was still…

<p class="MsoNormal">She still had the right to know.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Me and S-Set have been… intimate but only for a few days.” She whispered, placing her steel sword in her belt and stepping forward, placing her hand on the younger Dunmer’s shoulder, she glanced up and looked her into her eyes, almost as if she was looking in a mirror as her glazed, red eyes met with Julie’s.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Your f-fault…” Julie whispered menacingly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s b-because of you, he w-won’t even l-look at me…” She glanced to the ground, her hand tightening on her own sword.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-you’re l-like me! S-s-slut!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith backed away, swallowing hard as Julie’s insult echoed inside her head, even in her line of work, she wasn’t used to being called such things and it hurt her somewhat.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie… H-He and I aren’t… In love or anything, it’s just… I’m his courtesan… d-d-do you know what that means?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You…s-screw him…” Julie seethed, the anger practically radiating out from her. The tears spilling out uncontrollably.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You make him happy! You take care of him! You do everything I should be doing!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith backed away, raising her hands as she did so, breathing heavily as she grew more and more fearful by the second as she backed away from the insane Dunmer girl.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie… Y-You left him, h-he wouldn’t have if he thought that he’d ever see you again, you have to understand that!” The Dark haired Dunmer spluttered as she kept an eye on what’s behind her.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I saw him…last…week!” Julie snapped, raising the sheathed katana in front of her as she was so in favour of doing.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-you’ve been w-with him! Y-you’ve made h-him happy… I h-hate you!” She screamed, rather childishly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie! I was doing my j-job… H-He came to us broken, depressed, hurt, heartbrok-ken, it was my job to keep him h-happy a-a-and he gave me a place to stay, we were just using each other!” Lilith pleaded, finding herself incredibly scared as she was stuck between one heartbroken, mad Dunmer girl and a warzone and she couldn’t honestly tell which of the two was more terrifying.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-you had a choice!” Julie bawled, growing angrier by the second.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You could have said no!” There was a loud scrape as Julie tore the sheathe off of her katana, launching it behind her into the wilderness. She lowered the blade, pointing it at the older Dunmer.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why didn’t you refuse?” She whispered with a shaky voice.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why did he have to betray me!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith took a firm grip of her dagger but she had no intentions of threatening Julie with it or raising it, she was still hoping to reason with this mad woman.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Th-That’s not how it was, h-he refused me… A number of times…” Lilith replied, shakily as she found herself backing into the prison building of camp Alessia.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It’s my job Julie, I’m his… I get food and a roof over my head for making him happy.” She said, in the simplest terms possible, so that she was crystal clear about their relationship.

<p class="MsoNormal">“N-Nothing more! I seduced him, Julie… I used his grief, so that I could have a bed and a roof over my head.

<p class="MsoNormal">I’m sorry, you left him and he was all alone, heartbroken, devastated…

<p class="MsoNormal">S-Suicidal…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-suicidal?” Julie whispered, lowering her blade slightly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Alone? H-heartbroken!? Well so the fuck was I! But I didn’t get to have some stupid old whore run up and throw herself at me! I had to stay alone! Fend off the advances of a f-fucking madman because I didn’t want to hurt him again!” She cried out, gasping and panting in despair.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I was so close to being better on my own when the madman got me at a moment of weakness! He s-screwed me and I hate myself even more than I already fucking do cause I didn’t stop him!” Julie wiped her eyes, sniffing and hiccupping.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m f-fucking nuts without him b-by my side! I ain’t letting you take him away from me anymore!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie, I-I’m sorry, I didn’t‘t-t-take’ h-him… He’s still here, we can find him…” She whispered, as she felt her back press firmly against the wall, still noticing that Julie was advancing, cutting off all possibility of escape.

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie pressed her hand on the wall, the slavers brand on her arm on full display. She raised her other hand and pressed the blade of the katana to Lilliths neck, tilting her head.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I can f-find him on my own…” She whispered, almost as if she was purring.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’ve done it before, I can do it again. I’ll find him and beg to stay with him…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith swallowed, her throat moved as she did so and a small gulp could be heard as she glanced to the blade, the tip of which was not digging into her neck. The sound of clashing swords served as a reminder of just what such a weapon could do to her soft skin and the veins and ventricles that it contained.

<p class="MsoNormal">She looked back to Julie, her eyes shimmering as she began to plead for her life, she wasn’t a proud person, she’d ditched pride long ago, realising that she was a…

<p class="MsoNormal">Well, a whore…

<p class="MsoNormal">No fancy word in the world could cover that up, she wasn’t anyone’s fiancé or even their friend, just something to be used and discarded, like the sheath of a weapon or the wrapper on some well prepared food. Nobody would care if she died, she was expendable, some people would even kill someone as unimportant as her for fun and that’s what terrified her…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Th-Then let me go… P-Please!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Tell me your name…” Julie whispered angrily.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then I might consider it…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“L-Lilith…” The Dunmer strained as she felt the sharp blade jut even further into her neck, digging into the flesh but by some miracle not drawing blood.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Lilith Casseni…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Lilith…” Julie repeated, nodding to herself.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You know, Lilith, I used to be a cultist. I worshipped the Daedra. But then. Then I met Set. He supported me as my friend despite my past.

<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve been through everything together. Torture, rape, betrayal and loss…Yet we still wound up finding each other again. I was a fool to even consider he’d cheat on me…

<p class="MsoNormal">But it…wasn’t Maria I should be jealous of. Not anymore… No… It’s you, Lilith…” Julie smiled, laughing softly, with no joy even present in her tone.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You tricked him. Made him feel like everything was alright. I bet…I bet he pretended you were me you know? But now…if he takes me back. All I’ll see is you. All over him. I’m going to have to live with knowing he f-fucked some useless tool that tried to use him herself!” She moved closer, finally drawing a little blood.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Why should I let you go, huh? Why!?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“C-Cause I’m sorry!” Lilith cried out, truly terrified for her own safety here as she didn’t know what to do with her arms, should she reach up and try to grab the blade? At best she’d cut her hands to pieces and at worst, she’d just antagonise the mad woman into slicing her neck open and killing her.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I didn’t mean to hurt you, either of you… I was just doing my job!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“People have been killed for far less…” Julie said simply, enjoying the fear.

<p class="MsoNormal">“M-Monsters kill for far less…” Lilith whispered, slowly reaching for her sword and drawing it from her belt.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-You’re not a monster… Are you?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh, I’m far worse than a monster…” Julie whispered, her mouth hovering over the sluts ear.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m a woman who has nothing left to lose…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-You can still get Set back… There’s still a chance, th-this can heal over time, he misses you dearly…” Lilith whispered, finally getting her sword out of her belt and gently dragging it across her own stomach and gently raising it, Julie couldn’t see, due to the face that her face was practically buried in Lilith’s hair.

<p class="MsoNormal">“If he missed me…” Julie continued to whisper, inhaling through her nose and getting herself absorbed in Sets scent.

<p class="MsoNormal">“He wouldn’t have walked away from me a week ago…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith managed to free her sword arm, she smashed the hilt of it into Julie’s chest and knocked her back, the younger Dunmer accidentally dragged her sword across Lilith’s neck, leaving a rather nasty cut, which by some miracle hadn’t hit anything vital.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dark Haired Dunmer merely shrugged it off as she approached Julie, pointing her steel sword at the Dunmer as she approached her, practically seething with rage.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You walked away from him!” She snapped, her hand began to tremble as Julie recovered and she feared a reckoning, she glanced away before raising her sword again, pointing it at Julie’s chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">“L-Look… I can see what this has done to you and I’m sorry, I really am b-but you need to s-stop! Stop blaming me for everything! Stop trying to kill me! J-Just… I’m a whore, okay? That’s my life! Set isn’t my lover or even my f-f-friend… He’s just someone who I have to sleep with and spend all of my damn time with, just to get a roof over my head!

<p class="MsoNormal">No one’s ever loved me! No one’s ever stayed after we… Do you know how hard that is? Do you know how…

<p class="MsoNormal">“You have a man who loved… Who still loves you!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie panted, lying there on the ground, she chuckled softly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You…don’t know him then…” She whispered.

<p class="MsoNormal">“If you…spent time with him…If you just…appreciated him for who he was. If you…listened to him…” She paused, rolling onto her back and propping herself up on her elbows.

<p class="MsoNormal">“He would stay. I know he would. He’d stay with you…over m-me. That’s why…you…have to…go.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I will go… You’ll never see me again, I promise…” Lilith whispered almost pleading Julie as she lowered her sword and stepped back.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Just let me go…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Promises…” Julie whispered, standing up. “Are made to be…broken!” She bellowed, picking up her sword again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You have to die!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“N-No… D-Don’t make me do this…” Lilith pleaded, bringing up her steel sword as Julie stood to her feet, instantly regretting not knocking her out or anything to prevent her from trying to kill her again…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Please!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Or…what?” Julie seethed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You have a choice here too! Lay down and die, or fight back! A choice just like you had with fucking Set!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I… I…” Lilith trembled, slowly lifting her sword, which quivered the presence of this infuriated, mad Dunmer as her legs turned to jelly. She couldn’t do it, she couldn’t kill someone…

<p class="MsoNormal">Not even in self defence…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Julie, I…”

<p class="MsoNormal">She stopped as something flew past her face, missing her head by mere inches as the mysterious object flew past her and straight into Julie, knocking her straight to the ground. Lilith winced and looked away, narrowing her eyes and gritting her teeth as she timidly looked to the young Dunmer, her eyes widened as she saw what had happened. Her mind hadn’t considered it to be a possibility, the brain can be an incredibly useless tool, when frantic, she didn’t consider it to be a possibility until she saw Julie…

<p class="MsoNormal">Lay on her back…

<p class="MsoNormal">With an arrow, jutting out of her stomach…

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie gasped, her mouth moving in silent groans as her screams of pain echoed in Lilith’s head. She wrapped her hands around the arrow, crying out again when it moved even slightly. Her mind was racing.

<p class="MsoNormal">''Set! The Baby! Help. Help me! S-someone!''

<p class="MsoNormal">“My baby!!” Julie wailed, rolling her head to the side as the blood filled her mouth. She opened it slowly, gagging on it and sending it flying out onto the ground beside her. Unfortunately, this act forced her into moving and sent another spasm of pain up her body. She convulsed wildly, screaming louder by the second.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Se…SEEEEET!” Julie bawled.

<p class="MsoNormal">“HELP MEEEEE!”

<p class="MsoNormal">B-Baby!?

<p class="MsoNormal">“G-Gods!” Lilith gasped, rushing over to the girl’s side and kneeling beside her, looking to the arrow.

<p class="MsoNormal">She’s lucky it didn’t hit her heart…

<p class="MsoNormal">“J-Julie… I need you to stay still, please; I can’t get… get…” Then she noticed that the movement was involuntary, she convulsing. The Older Dunmer began to panic, reaching into her pocket and drawing a health potion, everyone was given one the night before, Laurina worked her fingers to the bone to have them prepared for the group by sunrise.

<p class="MsoNormal">She’d be glad to know that her hard grafting had saved more than one life…

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dunmer brought the lid of the bottle to her mouth, biting into the cork and pulling it out before spitting it across the yard as she began to move it closer to Julie’s face. However, she noticed a problem; the arrow was still in her chest.

<p class="MsoNormal">She grabbed hold of it, wrapping her slender, war torn fingers around the wooden shaft of the arrow before swiftly and harshly yanking it out before forcing the potion down Julie’s throat, to close the wound.

<p class="MsoNormal">“J-Julie… S-Stay with me, stay awake! S-Set needs you; your… b-b-baby needs you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Julie screamed so loud, it was a miracle no one else noticed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“SEEEET! SEEEEEEEET!” She wailed over and over again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I n-need you…” Julie groaned, feeling the wound closing up a little.

<p class="MsoNormal">“W-we need you…” she whispered quietly, sounding like she’d drop off at any moment. Her eyes began to close involuntarily as she expunged all her energy on screaming. She jolted them open again, moaning as she moved.

<p class="MsoNormal">   “Gotta…stay…up…Don’t want us to die y-yet…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Th-That’s… R-Right… H-Helps on it’s way, just hold on!” Lilith pleaded, taking hold of Julie’s hand, not knowing what else to do.

<p class="MsoNormal">She threw her face over to the battle field, looking frantically as he dull, glazed eyes scanned it intently.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Healer!” She cried, taking a tighter grip on Julie’s hand as he own began to tremble.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Please!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Lilith…” Julie whispered, resting her free arm across her stomach as the Older Dunmer looked back to her, her eyes began to shimmer as she was overwhelmed with guilt, panic, hopelessness...

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m…ngh…I’m s-sorry…F-for c-causing all of…this…” She gestured to the battlefield.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I-it’s…all my…fault…”

<p class="MsoNormal">-

<p class="MsoNormal">Both warriors lay on the floor of Set’s tent, the light shone through the holes in the roof and reflected as small freckles on their armour. Both of them were overcome by their injuries and couldn’t move or speak.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set’s eye shot open and he gasped, finding that the potion had managed to rejuvenate him. He wasn’t sure whether or not healing potions truly worked on him or whether it was something that someone had done to Julie, to keep her alive. Either way, he felt stronger and he had to use that strength to find Julie and ensure her safety.

<p class="MsoNormal">The former Bosmer scrambled to his feet, slamming his blighted sword into the ground and using it as a crutch, to pull himself up with as it slowly infected the ground around him, making it turn into a sort of ebony-like surface as it cracked and crumbled. Set managed to pull himself to his feet as he shambled towards the flap of his tent, stumbling forward and falling out, into the battlefield. He didn’t even look back, to check on Tiberionus, right now he didn’t even care if the Dunmer was still alive.

<p class="MsoNormal">He continued to stumble out of his tent and into the battlefield, walking out into the warzone, with little to no hesitation as he slowly shambled past Tiberionus’ people and his own people of Camp Alessia as well as some of the Fallen. Set ignored them all as he continued to shamble onwards, he had to find Jullie before it was too late, for his own sake but more so for hers…

<p class="MsoNormal">For his child…

<p class="MsoNormal">Set continued to drag his sword through the dirt, leaving a long trail behind him as the acid dripped to either side of the crack, sizzling away and making the ground behind him even more blighted as he began to look for any sign of Julie. Everything else had been shoved to the back of his mind, Tiberionus, the fact that there was a war going on, even Lilith…

<p class="MsoNormal">He continued to march across the battlefield, seeing the many fights before him as he dragged his sword across the landscape, none of Tiberionus’ men dared to go near him, most of them stopped in their tracks and just looked to him, with a fixed look of shock and horror on their faces as they came to a stop and let the Blighted Knight pass them, slowly trailing his sword through the mud as he marched on, looking for his beloved.

<p class="MsoNormal">He stopped and came to a standstill, it was as if something was clearing the way as the combatants all seemed to step back at the same time, whether they were fleeing, preparing a surprise attack for their foes, dodging a swing, getting the higher ground…

<p class="MsoNormal">It didn’t matter as they managed to make a path for Set, allowing his eyes to see the prison block and two Dunmer women beside it, one was lay on her back, barely moving. He recognised her immediately; her red hair gave her away and knelt over her was…

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith?

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer had no time to lose, he took one step closer to them, taking his first step as his heavy boot stomped down in the mud and splattered a small explosion of mud around it, flicking bits of mud an inch or two in the air, that tried to escape from his terrifying presence. Set continued to shambled forward, taking one step and then another, focussing on his walking as he got closer and closer to his lovers…

<p class="MsoNormal">Closer to Julie…

<p class="MsoNormal">As he got about half way there, an Imperial stumbled back and bumped into him, he was skinny and small, one of Tiberionus’ men, judging from his armour. This wouldn’t have even fazed him normally but even a small knock like that one was enough to knock him off of his feet. He grew enraged as he knocked off course, glaring into the boy’s eyes and he spun around and began to stammer and babble, hoping to excuse himself but Set didn’t have the time or the patience to listen to his winey excuses and shoved his sword into the Imperial’s chest, grinning as the acid melted his pierced heart and dripped down onto his organs, reducing them to jelly.

<p class="MsoNormal">The former Bosmer didn’t even bother to watch him die, after enduring a few gasps and listening to the boy choke as his innards sizzled and were reduced to nothing, he threw him off of his sword and knocked him to the floor, with a thud, the acid dribbled down to his back, burning a large hole through his torso.

<p class="MsoNormal">Set marched on, realising that he was gaining on her, his armour clattered and clunked as he shambled towards her, gasping and panting in both pain and heartbreak at the sight of his fallen lover.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Lil…” He panted, falling to his knee and getting his left knee, boot and shin covered in mud as he almost fell face first. He dug his normal sword into the ground, to hold himself upright as he looked over to Julie.

<p class="MsoNormal">“How…” She’s alive Set! But I need a healer!” Lilith gasped getting up and running over to him, seeing that he was bleeding heavily.

<p class="MsoNormal">“G-Gods… You’re bleeding!”

<p class="MsoNormal">“N-Nothin’… It’s… N-Nothin’…” Set panted, gently brushing past her and kneeling down by Julie’s side, looking her over. He couldn’t tell whether or not the arrow would do any harm to the baby and in a strange way, he didn’t care as he cared more about Julie.

<p class="MsoNormal">“J-Just… H-Hang on Julie…” He whispered, taking her hand and holding it in his palm.

<p class="MsoNormal">“We’re going to get you out of here.”