Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20141003213306/@comment-5583506-20141005202740

(Some sentimentality in this post might be included. Beware!)

I don't understand, she thought as they entered the inn. ''I know its here. I just know it! But it seems so much different since the last time. It feels as if they have made a total makeover of the entire settlement under a timespan of 3 years. But that would just be plain out ridiculous.''

She approached the Redguard innkeeper at the counter. "Hi there", she said.

"Well, hello", said the woman with optimism. "Aren't you a pretty one? So, what can I do for you."

"We would like a room..." She stopped and looked back at Rowan. He had once again that expression on his face - an expression of disappointment. "Nevermind", she said somberly. "We will just have... a room each."

The Redguard woman's eyes shifted back and forth between the Nordic pair, but she said nothing. "Okay. That will be twenty gold then."

Myling dug around in her pockets. She had only twenty-four pieces left. It was at least enough to stay for the night. She figured that they wouldn't have to travel any longer after this day was over, as she expected that they would find something relating to her past the very next day, and from there on she could probably find her own way.

She looked discreetly at Rowan as she put the coins on the counter. She felt a lump in her throat. Their journey was almost at an end, and she just knew that the feelings she had for him wouldn't simply go away easy. But what hurt the most was that she was unsure of how he felt for her. It pained her sometimes so much that she couldn't bare to look at him. He reminded her so much of someone she had lost her memory of, someone she had been fond of, and Rowan was sort of that someone to fill the void the person had left behind.

She reckoned that once they had found her origin, he would leave her as well, to return home to Riften. Maybe find someone he was meant to be with and maybe that was for the best. Even if she loved him, they were too different. And she believed that he only saw her as nothing else than a deranged girl chasing memories and dreams... and maybe that was the truth as well. But she wouldn't give up, not until she was faced with some answers.

She turned to the innkeeper again. "Do you... do you know if there are any settlements nearby? Like smaller villages and the likes?"

"Well, to be honest it's kind of dead around here", said the innkeeper. "There is however Maiden's Rest, but not even a retarded troll would go that way."

"Why not?"

The innkeeper looked at her intensively. "People say it's haunted. Now, I am not really all that familiar with the stories and such, but I just know that something bad happened there a couple of hundred years ago or so. These Nords are a superstitous bunch, no offense, so they believe that the entire settlement there is being haunted by restless spirits."

"But... but there is a settlement then?"

The Redguard scratched the back of her head. "I wouldn't call it settlement precisely. It hasn't been a settlement since back then. However I know there are some people still living there in secluded cottages."

"Could you point me in the right direction?" asked Myling and leaned over the counter.

"Of course, just step away from the counter and I will bring you a map." The Redguard woman bent down behind the counter and took out a map over Skyrim. "There", she said and pointed at an area. "Just follow the path north-west from here, towards Solitude. It is nearly on the border to the Reach, but still within Hjaalmarch hold. It is located deep within the forest. I doubt however that there is still a path leading to the settlement, you will just have to find one yourself."

"Okay, thanks for the help", said Myling and turned to Rowan. "So... We got a new lead. Maiden's Rest. Apparently a former settlement somewhere to the north-west of here. It didn't look to be very far away and its the only 'settlement' within reach. I don't know why and how, but somehow that must be it."

She then swallowed and spoke somberly. "And once we get there I take it that you would... you would perhaps like to return home?"