Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140623222942/@comment-3293219-20140628180342

Nepht left the chapel behind her, unable to suppress a giggle as she ran across, finding herself overcome by excitement as she ran over to the Bosmer hunter, forgetting that they hadn’t been introduced.

“Conor?” She asked, stopping just short of him as he looked up from his crops as he looked up and slowly stood up to look the Dunmer in the face, looking a bit put off.

“Y-Yes?”

“Oh, I’m Nepht… I arrived this morning.” She said, feeling chipper as she looked back at the chapel as if Lilina was stood at the front door, watching them before looking back to the Bosmer.

“I was wondering if you were able to help me clear out a fort…” She muttered, nervously as she glanced away before looking back and giving him another smile.

“Clear out a f…” Conor stopped, looking back to the chapel before he found himself smiling as well, suddenly figuring it out.

“I see that the Goddess has given you a day.”

“Yes!” Nepht said, enthusiastically, clapping her hands together and nodding with a smile before looking back to the chapel again as if she was silently thanking it.

“She told me that you’d be able to help me.”

“She told you right but why’d you want to go to a fort of all things?” Conor asked, looking somewhat confused as he dusted the soil off of his pants.

“I… Wanted to explore, plunge it for its treasures and riches.” Nepht explained, smiling and nodding her head. Conor dropped his trowel to the floor, giving Nepht his full attention as he folded his arms and smiled to her.

“Now that does sound exciting…” He muttered, folding his arms and looking up to the sky, fondly.

“A lot more exciting than what I did…”

Nepht looked away with a slight smile, unable to hide the fact that she was rather proud of coming up with something good.

“And what was that?”

“Well, I asked to be pit against waves of wolves, bears and lions, kind of like Hircine’s hunting grounds…” He explained, with a shrug before looking back to her.

<p class="MsoNormal">“That sounds scary…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“It was but it was amazing! Truly, I’ve never had to fight that many creatures at once.” Conor replied, with almost as much enthusiasm as she had for the fort.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I always wanted to be a hunter, y’see, ever since I was a kid… I learned to track, kill, skin, etc… Just like my older brother. I got good at it but I never fought more than a few wolves at a time, I used to dream of being attacked by a huge pack of wolves or somethin’ and having to fend for meself.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Like… A last stand kind of thing?” Nepht asked, raising an eyebrow as she folded her arms and tilted her head, somewhat similar to Petra.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-Yeah, sorta… Except it wouldn’t be my last stand…” Conor mumbled, scratching his head before gesturing for Nepht to lead the way, pretty much agreeing to her proposal.

<p class="MsoNormal">“My last stand would have to involve a minimum of 200 trolls and a thousand minotaurs.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Nepht’s spine stiffened as she spun around, beaming at him as she heard the mention of the word ‘minotaur.’ Nepht had never seen one before but she had always wanted to, the minotaurs were, to say the least, fascinating to her.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Hehe… Sounds impressive… maybe someone could write a book about it?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Ha! How Conor Kinswerth   was torn limb from limb by trolls and minotaurs, by Nepht…?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Nepht chuckled, turning to him with an even wider grin as they stepped out of the town and into the wilderness.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Adlis… How Conor Kins…werth was torn limb from limb by mudcrabs and skeevers, by Nepht Adlis.” The Dunmer chuckled, laughing even harder, when he looked to her indignantly.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-Hey!” He snapped, though his annoyance was obviously mock annoyance, due to the large grin that he had on his face. Nepht glanced back to him, finding it difficult to tell from his tone, whether or not that was going too far but she caught his grin and began to laugh herself.

<p class="MsoNormal">Conor looked up and saw a tall tower, which Nepth didn’t notice, until its shadow was cast over them both. The Young Dunmer looked up at it, in amazement, gasping as she saw it before looking back to Conor.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I… Don’t remember this being here before…” Nepht admitted, nervously as she stepped forward, kicking something under her feet…

<p class="MsoNormal">Her aunt’s shield and Veneficus’ sword, exactly as she remembered them…

<p class="MsoNormal">She gasped and knelt down, smiling as if she was receiving two old friends as she was, she found herself receiving two of her three companions, who had protected her and kept her safe. She took the sword and strapped it to her waist, turning around again and seeing that Conor had found his bow, arrows and knife.

<p class="MsoNormal">“The Goddess can create landmarks, for us to reach. I saw that you tried to simply walk out of here earlier…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Y-Yeah… That was confusing…” Nepht admitted, looking down to his knife and missing his winning smile.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well, on turdas, she creates a hunting ground for me and she’s done a few other things like this but she encourages us to stay in the town as it’s a lot easier for her to work, with just the town.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“S-So… She creates landmarks?” Nepht asked, frowning and raising an eyebrow as she looked back to the town, just seeing a sea of trees in its way.

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-How is that possible?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Nepht…” Conor grinned shaking his head and taking a step closer to her, almost seeming humbled.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She does just create the landmarks!” The Bosmer informed her as he grabbed hold of her shoulders as if he was trying to get some sense into her, when in reality, he was just excited.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She has created everything. This town was her own creation!”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Dunmer looked to him, like he was mad but she decided that there was no way that he was lying to her, he didn’t really have a reason to. He could have been brainwashed or something though…

<p class="MsoNormal">“H-How can someone… Create a town? I mean… You could with bricks and builders but… She couldn’t have done all that.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh but she did Nepht!” Conor replied, breathlessly noticing her doubt in the powers of the Goddess, Lilina.

<p class="MsoNormal">“She created all of this, the ground that you walk on, the sky, the air, the animals. She made it all!”

<p class="MsoNormal">Nepht frowned, seeing that he was trying to indoctrinate her in his strange cult, she folded her arms and narrowed her eyes, one of the few times that she ever looked cross about anything. Despite this, it still looked endearing, due to her childish nature and appearance.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Lilina did not create Nirn!” She snapped, defiantly.

<p class="MsoNormal">Conor chuckled and shook his head, letting go of Nepht’s shoulders and stepping back with a smile as he folded his own arms.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You’re right Nepht… Of course, we aren’t on Nirn.”

<p class="MsoNormal">This got The Young Dunmer’s attention as she glanced up to him, meeting his eye as her face dropped in shock as she looked around.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Th-Then where am I?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Well…” Conor said, stepping around as the birds began to chirp and pick up, prompting him to spin around, on his heel and step closer to the fort.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I don’t understand it myself, since I’m not as powerful or knowledgeable about such matters…   Perhaps Lilina would be willing to explain it to you, though, to be honest? I don’t really care how this works… Because nothing could be better…” He chuckled before looking back to his Dunmer companion, with a smile.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Here? We get everything we’ve ever wanted, she keeps us safe, fed, happy, alive and most importantly, she keeps us satisfied. All of us were lost and confused, our worlds falling apart and she knew that, when she plucked us from Nirn’s surface and gave us a new home…

<p class="MsoNormal">A better home.”