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(And I will never click on another one.)

Allysa opened her eyes, instantly alert. Memory of the previous night's activity was foremost in her mind and she had a sudden longing to be back in Riften, where Maven's rule kept her safe. She slid quietly out from under Raptor's arm and stood up. Crossing the room to a chair, she pulled on her boots, then stood to pull on her jacket. She checked her daggers.

The letter from Connor was still in her pocket. She pulled it out and tore off the bottom of the letter, quietly. Using a piece of charcoal she always carried wrapped up in a cloth in an inner pocket, she wrote a quick note to Raptor.

''Bring Ghost. Will meet you at the shrine. Arcum knows why. ''

(She wasn't sure whether Arcum had told Raptor what he'd witnessed the night before, but she strongly suspected not.  Folding the note, she slipped it into the top buckle of Raptor's boot.

She slung pack and crossbow. Her bedroll was still tied to the saddle.

Pausing on the threshold, she looked back at Raptor, sleeping peacefully. She longed to go over and kiss him, but did not dare wake him. He would be so angry when he found her gone. She turned and silently slipped through the door.

The kitchen was her next stop. She filled her pack with food, almost squealing with delight when she found some venison steaks warming in a pot by the fire. She ripped one in half and stuck it between her teeth and wrapped the rest.

Then she slipped out into the pre-dawn gloom of Skyrim. It was good to be back in her homeland. She glided around the back of the building and up into the hills, a small lonely figure against the dangerous backdrop of a savage land.