p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"The freezing cold rain crashed over the little Breton child as she trudged barefooted over the unforgiving rocky road clad in only a loose white nightgown. Her small hands which were now chapped and wrinkled from the rainwater, clinging onto a small ragged bag filled with the only things that ever held any value that had come into her reach./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She tripped and fell into a puddle of mud dirtying her already filthy poor excuse for a dress and landing with a thud that send a stiff lock up in her arms and her head to snap forward. The thunder cackled around her as if to laughed at her pathetic state of being. A few tears came forth spilling over her cheeks disguising itself as raindrops as it flowed with the rain already parading over her cheeks./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Mommy…" she sadly muttered under her sobs which were drowning out by the rain around her "mommy…daddy…Skippy… where did you go?" she asked herself./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She heard footsteps behind her, her spirits rose and her heart lightened. "Mommy?!" she whirled around waiting to be scooped up into her mothers arms to be taken back to her father and her puppy Skippy./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Perhaps that is what would happen if she lived in a perfect fantasy world...but this wasn't a fantasy… and this certainly wasn't a perfect world./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Look at what we got ere'!" this certainly was not the voice of her mother and she knew it from the moment she turned around. Her innocent blue eyes went wide absolutely filled with fear. Before she could even think to turn and run the bandit grabbed the back of her dress and hoisted her up in the air her legs kicking./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Lemmie go! Please!" she pleaded struggling to hold on to her ragged little bag /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "What's this huh?" another bandit appeared and took the bag with ease./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "That's mine give it back!" the bandit dropped her on the ground with a painful thud, she began to cry. "Gimme my bag back right now or ill-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Or what? You'll tell you mommy?" he cackled at her. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Her nostrils flared her fists balled as she tired to summon one of those ice spikes her dad could do. When she felt the magicka buzzing in her palm she thrust out her hand with a mighty grunt and…a small ball of light floated out./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The bandits roared with laughter "oh look we got a little hero on our hands" the second sneered. He roughly grabbed her by the arm. "What you say she worth eh 50? 100 septims per night?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "At least 500 the first time… she aint been plucked yet" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" emWhat are they talking about? I haven't been plucked? Are they gonna pluck out all my hair?! /emShe thought panicky "MOMMY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs begging the divines she would hear her. "DADDY PLEASE HELP ME!"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Shut up!" one of them said annoyingly as he shook her violently. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Let the child go" ordered a steady calm voice. Out of nowhere. The bandits turned around to be faced with a hooded figure a shadow hiding his face. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Oh yeah?" one of the bandits unsheathed his swords that looked like it had a bunch of animal teeth shoved into it. "Why don't you wave around that little iron dagger of yours and make me?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Suddenly an ice spike shot out from the mans palm and right into the bandits chest making a sickening emwashhink /emsound, the man fell to the ground and never moved again. The second bandit dropped the little girl and her bag and ran for it. He didn't make it too far before he was impaled by another ice spike./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The small Breton girl slowly turned around looking at the strange figure. He soon took off his hood and kneeled down to her level still keeping a little more than respectable distance. "Hello there" he greeted her warmly. In a panic the small Breton girl accidentally conjured another light trying to make an ice spike like he did./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It's alright little one I wont hurt you" he smiled his face was old probably in his mid 60's he had blue eyes and long grey hair slicked back. "Are you hurt?"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The Girl was unsure of what to say, he just killed to men right in front of her how does she know he wont do the same to her. In response she nodded her head yes/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm Islander would you like to come out of the rain? I have a house right up the road" he pointed further down the path./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "That's a nifty spell isn't it?" he said to her as he held an apple out to her and she greatfully took it. She hadn't eaten since breakfast span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_593815256"span class="aQJ"yesterday/span/span morning. "candlelight was the first spell I ever learned" Islander was honestly impressed she even knew how to do that… most kids her age couldn't do as much as get the spell ready in their hand/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It was suppose to be an ice spike…" she grumbled/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I see..." he mused "ice spikes are difficult to learn for most… it requires lots of practice to get a good one"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "My daddy can make ice spikes… he promised to teach me as soon as we got to…" she thought for a moment "…some hall of honor they were talking about..."/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "…honor hall?" he offered hoping he was wrong even though he knew he wasn't/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yeah that's it!" she said excitedly taking a bite of her apple /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The man gave her a fake smile that hid his pity for the girl... she barely knew what was going on… "I don't believe I caught you name little one" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Mmph" she hummed as she finished chewing her bite of apple "I'm Aletta Izel" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Do you have any idea where your parents are?" he asked her gently grabbing a seat./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The girl paused for a moment a sadness mixed with a handful of fear showed prominently in her eyes "no…they might be at honor hall" she snuggled further into the blanket he had given her to dry off/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "When was the last time you saw them?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_593815257"span class="aQJ"Yesterday/span/span…we all went to sleep and when I woke up mommy and daddy and Skippy were gone and all their stuff…do you think their okay?"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" em"Come on Kirk just leave her! I'm sure shell find her way to Riften just fine from here" Jazabelle yell whispered at her husband/em/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Are you sure?" he asked ask he looked at his little girl on last time /span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Of course…she's not that helpless…" she sneered "we can't keep her for any longer she just slows us down!"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" He stroked the tiny girls dark red hair "you really think shell be alright?"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Of course now let's go!"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm sure your parents are fine..." he assured her "who's Skippy? Your brother?"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "No my puppy! A farmer gave him to me when we passed through a farm mommy hates him but he's really nice he just gets confused sometimes" she giggled/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Islander cleared his throat "and what did…Skippy look like?" he rubbed the back of his neck seeming nervous/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "He's black and white and has pointy ears and one white eye" she explained excitedly. And Islander smiled sheepishly… realizing he had found a small dog along the side of the road that fit that description…minus the arrow in its eye socket… he had planned to sell it to the blacksmith for leather…he reminded himself not to let her go around the back of the house/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" em"Good riddance…noisy little mutt" Jazabelle smirked as she shot the dog in the eye/em/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "We should have let him stay with her…" Kirk mumbled/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "She was a mile back it's not like we could have brought him back" she kicked the carcass to the side of the road "besides he probably would have lead her to us again…/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "He seemed - erm seems like a good little dog" he smiled deciding to spare the little girls feelings. He stared off for awhile deciding how to hide the dog from her/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Can you help me find my mommy? And my daddy? Pwease?" she begged her bright blue eyes pleading./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" His heart wrenched "sweetheart…I don't think-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I-ill give you my spell tombe! And this necklace a-and this pretty ring and this…this…thingy and this amulet-" She offered as she pulled all of these things out of her bag./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Sweetheart I don't think I can-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I also have this circlet!" she pulled a jade and sapphire circlet from her bag/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Aletta" he said a little louder she stopped rummaging though the bag and looked up at him with bright blue eyes "I…I don't think your parents are coming for you"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Her eyes widened "wh-why?" she sniffled. Islander took her in his arms "are they mad a me?" she croaked /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" After laying the girl on an old bedroll he had lying around. Islander sat by the fire as he scratched his beard in deep thought… what was he going to do with this child? He couldn't take her back to her parents they clearly didn't want her… it was either that or they had been killed or kidnapped…what responsible parent packs up camp and forgets their own child for Maras sake! he sighed he didn't want to take her to honor hall orphanage… he had heard nothing but nasty things about gredlod the kind and times are so tough nowadays adoption is rare…/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Islander?" Aletta called gently as she tugged on his sleeve holding a book over her chest that almost dwarfed her/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "What is it little one?" she set a spell tomb in his lap emice spike /em/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Will you pwease teach me how to do that? So bandits will leave me alone?" she looked at him with eyes that held so much innocence /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Suddenly an idea popped into his head as his face lit up "ill tell you what" he pulled the little girl onto his lap "you like magic right?" she nodded fiercely as some hair fell into her face "well… how but you be my apprentice? And ill teach you how to do lots of things"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She thought for a moment "like… fire fairies? And things like that?" she said excitement growing in her voice with every word./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yes all the fire fairies you want" he said almost magically/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She thought hard. She had this plan about having him taking her to honerhall so she could find her parents…but her dad only knew an ice spike … how cool would it be to make a fire fairy? But family does come first…doesn't it… she frowned before she gave her answer/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm a wizard not a hunter!" Islander squabbled up the hill to examine the bones "they look rather fresh…"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""You don't zink it is zhat child with da red hair zhat came through here ze other day do you?" Islander looked at his mercenary friend with wide eyes and a stomach that felt like it dropped 10 ft./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""lemmie see" Aletta came to stand next to Saeed "By the nine it reeks!"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Aletta! vhat if it is zhat child?!" Saheed scolded./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""That family was headed that way" she pointed in the opposite direction "besides I'm pretty sure it's a wolf…" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Told ja" she smirked. Saheed was an old friend of Islander a mercenary and one of the best at that. And was pretty convinced that magic was 'not a trustable craft' and insisted the girl learned how to use real weapons. So he would train her in archery and with swords and daggers when he came to visit./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Come on you slowpokes!" Islander squabbled towards his rather large farmhouse. "I aint gonna wait around for you two to play with dead things!"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""aright' were comin'" Aletta laughed as she followed her father figure towards his home a bright smile adorning her face as various fur armors and weapons clunked around./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""You won't make to much money with all that junk" the pale furred Kahjit commented as the small Breton girl squabbled with all her treasures. And she believed the Kahjit he was after all a thief at once, he had to know what was worth grabbing and worth leaving./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Psh she'll be fine!" Islander waved as if Saheed was a worrying mother "it's good for Aletta to go out and…meander" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Thank you islander" She continued packing, tucking her gold away in a secret pouch she had sewn in for her. "I don't wanna be stuck in high rock my entire life" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yeah" Aletta grunted as she saddled her newly owned companion bandit courtesy of Islander/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "How about a map of Skyrim?" he asked smugly crossing his arms over his chest./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Ummmm…hmmm…" Aletta puzzled for a moment "I guess I should get a map of Skyrim eh?" she laughed sheepishly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "here" He handed her a folded up piece of paper "I already thought of vit" Aletta unfolded the map to get a quick idea of where she was going "zese are all of ze holds" he pointed to some of the more largely decorated symbols "and I have marked vere zere are small towns vit inns you can stay" she nodded absorbing the information like a sponge "Aletta…are you sure you vant to go to Skyrim of all ze places? You could come vit me to elsewhere…" Aletta stopped preparing her saddlebags to give him an annoyed look /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Whats wrong with Skyrim?" Aletta asked as a matter of factly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "iz just…very different…ze people I mean…ze are not like everyone from Cyrodill or high rock" he pointed/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Well of course" she continued preparing her things "it's an entirely different race of people with a new culture"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "you do not understand my words Aletta" he spoke a little to harshly she stopped preparing her things once more and paid more attention to the mercenary "ze people zere zey…are arrogant zey do not like outsiders no one really uses magic and ze say magic iz for veak, it ez hard to find people who are accepting…" he pulled out a pipe and reached for some skooma "I left because I had to vear a hood over my face just to get into any of ze holds…some nights I even had to make camps outside"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" All though this Aletta soaked in the information. Weighing the pros and cons. I was risky…going into a country in the middle of a war. No place to settle down get married or have kids and start a family…if that is something Aletta had wanted out of life… she didn't want to tie herself to someone for the rest of her life it just seemed so …restricting… and she did not want kids…she didn't hate kids she was just never really good with them. She always felt awkward and wasn't sure what to say. She wanted to have stories worth the telling and battle scars worth bragging about. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I still want to go Saheed" she sighed "I wanna see Skyrim for myself and meet it's people…I can't explain why I want to I just…" she sighed frustrated "this is just something I have to do" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" He looked at her for a second, ears flattened against his skull as if he were trying to figure out something "you are not ze little Breton girl any more are you?" he paused a second taking in a drag from his pipe "you are so grown up…I cannot stop you from you hearts desires vut" he paused and pulled small gold compass out of his pocket "I can help you vit it" Aletta took the compass in her and studied it "I found zit at an inn von day and I never use it so-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Aletta wasted no time embracing her friend in a hug "I wont ever forget this Saheed…you guys gave me a future s I could go and live my dream and I thank you guys so much for that…thank you" she teared up and buried her face in his shirt" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Saheed wasn't sure what to say so he simply hugged her back…he never quite knew what to do with crying people/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Awww…" Islander came in sniffling "that was touching"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Have you been there the entire time?" Aletta asked accusingly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I will be wherever I want to be for as entirely as I want it is my house!" he exclaimed "I went to go get you something" he produced a brown leather journal from is robes "I thought id never use this…and I was right so you can have it" Aletta took the book and flipped through the waiting to be inked pages /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Thank you islander" she hugged the old man/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It seems like just span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_593815258"span class="aQJ"yesterday/span/span you were trying to cast fire fairies in the street" she laughed /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'll miss you two" she sighed "I promise ill write letters all the time/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" After her final goodbyes she mounted her companion bandit who stomped his hooves in excitement and began her journey to Skyrim./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"strongspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Wow that took awhile tell me what you people think! Review!/span/span/span/strong/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She tripped and fell into a puddle of mud dirtying her already filthy poor excuse for a dress and landing with a thud that send a stiff lock up in her arms and her head to snap forward. The thunder cackled around her as if to laughed at her pathetic state of being. A few tears came forth spilling over her cheeks disguising itself as raindrops as it flowed with the rain already parading over her cheeks./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Mommy…" she sadly muttered under her sobs which were drowning out by the rain around her "mommy…daddy…Skippy… where did you go?" she asked herself./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She heard footsteps behind her, her spirits rose and her heart lightened. "Mommy?!" she whirled around waiting to be scooped up into her mothers arms to be taken back to her father and her puppy Skippy./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Perhaps that is what would happen if she lived in a perfect fantasy world...but this wasn't a fantasy… and this certainly wasn't a perfect world./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Look at what we got ere'!" this certainly was not the voice of her mother and she knew it from the moment she turned around. Her innocent blue eyes went wide absolutely filled with fear. Before she could even think to turn and run the bandit grabbed the back of her dress and hoisted her up in the air her legs kicking./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Lemmie go! Please!" she pleaded struggling to hold on to her ragged little bag /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "What's this huh?" another bandit appeared and took the bag with ease./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "That's mine give it back!" the bandit dropped her on the ground with a painful thud, she began to cry. "Gimme my bag back right now or ill-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Or what? You'll tell you mommy?" he cackled at her. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Her nostrils flared her fists balled as she tired to summon one of those ice spikes her dad could do. When she felt the magicka buzzing in her palm she thrust out her hand with a mighty grunt and…a small ball of light floated out./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The bandits roared with laughter "oh look we got a little hero on our hands" the second sneered. He roughly grabbed her by the arm. "What you say she worth eh 50? 100 septims per night?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "At least 500 the first time… she aint been plucked yet" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" emWhat are they talking about? I haven't been plucked? Are they gonna pluck out all my hair?! /emShe thought panicky "MOMMY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs begging the divines she would hear her. "DADDY PLEASE HELP ME!"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Shut up!" one of them said annoyingly as he shook her violently. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Let the child go" ordered a steady calm voice. Out of nowhere. The bandits turned around to be faced with a hooded figure a shadow hiding his face. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Oh yeah?" one of the bandits unsheathed his swords that looked like it had a bunch of animal teeth shoved into it. "Why don't you wave around that little iron dagger of yours and make me?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Suddenly an ice spike shot out from the mans palm and right into the bandits chest making a sickening emwashhink /emsound, the man fell to the ground and never moved again. The second bandit dropped the little girl and her bag and ran for it. He didn't make it too far before he was impaled by another ice spike./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The small Breton girl slowly turned around looking at the strange figure. He soon took off his hood and kneeled down to her level still keeping a little more than respectable distance. "Hello there" he greeted her warmly. In a panic the small Breton girl accidentally conjured another light trying to make an ice spike like he did./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It's alright little one I wont hurt you" he smiled his face was old probably in his mid 60's he had blue eyes and long grey hair slicked back. "Are you hurt?"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The Girl was unsure of what to say, he just killed to men right in front of her how does she know he wont do the same to her. In response she nodded her head yes/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm Islander would you like to come out of the rain? I have a house right up the road" he pointed further down the path./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "That's a nifty spell isn't it?" he said to her as he held an apple out to her and she greatfully took it. She hadn't eaten since breakfast span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_593815256"span class="aQJ"yesterday/span/span morning. "candlelight was the first spell I ever learned" Islander was honestly impressed she even knew how to do that… most kids her age couldn't do as much as get the spell ready in their hand/span/span/span/p
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It was suppose to be an ice spike…" she grumbled/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I see..." he mused "ice spikes are difficult to learn for most… it requires lots of practice to get a good one"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "My daddy can make ice spikes… he promised to teach me as soon as we got to…" she thought for a moment "…some hall of honor they were talking about..."/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "…honor hall?" he offered hoping he was wrong even though he knew he wasn't/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yeah that's it!" she said excitedly taking a bite of her apple /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The man gave her a fake smile that hid his pity for the girl... she barely knew what was going on… "I don't believe I caught you name little one" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Mmph" she hummed as she finished chewing her bite of apple "I'm Aletta Izel" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Do you have any idea where your parents are?" he asked her gently grabbing a seat./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" The girl paused for a moment a sadness mixed with a handful of fear showed prominently in her eyes "no…they might be at honor hall" she snuggled further into the blanket he had given her to dry off/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "When was the last time you saw them?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Are you sure?" he asked ask he looked at his little girl on last time /span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Of course…she's not that helpless…" she sneered "we can't keep her for any longer she just slows us down!"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" He stroked the tiny girls dark red hair "you really think shell be alright?"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Of course now let's go!"/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm sure your parents are fine..." he assured her "who's Skippy? Your brother?"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "No my puppy! A farmer gave him to me when we passed through a farm mommy hates him but he's really nice he just gets confused sometimes" she giggled/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Islander cleared his throat "and what did…Skippy look like?" he rubbed the back of his neck seeming nervous/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "He's black and white and has pointy ears and one white eye" she explained excitedly. And Islander smiled sheepishly… realizing he had found a small dog along the side of the road that fit that description…minus the arrow in its eye socket… he had planned to sell it to the blacksmith for leather…he reminded himself not to let her go around the back of the house/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" em"Good riddance…noisy little mutt" Jazabelle smirked as she shot the dog in the eye/em/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "We should have let him stay with her…" Kirk mumbled/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"emspan style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "She was a mile back it's not like we could have brought him back" she kicked the carcass to the side of the road "besides he probably would have lead her to us again…/span/span/span/em/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "He seemed - erm seems like a good little dog" he smiled deciding to spare the little girls feelings. He stared off for awhile deciding how to hide the dog from her/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Humph?" he looked up at the girl./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Can you help me find my mommy? And my daddy? Pwease?" she begged her bright blue eyes pleading./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" His heart wrenched "sweetheart…I don't think-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I-ill give you my spell tombe! And this necklace a-and this pretty ring and this…this…thingy and this amulet-" She offered as she pulled all of these things out of her bag./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Sweetheart I don't think I can-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I also have this circlet!" she pulled a jade and sapphire circlet from her bag/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Aletta" he said a little louder she stopped rummaging though the bag and looked up at him with bright blue eyes "I…I don't think your parents are coming for you"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Her eyes widened "wh-why?" she sniffled. Islander took her in his arms "are they mad a me?" she croaked /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "No…they…they just…they uhhh…" he stumbled "have you ever seen a centurion dynamo core? You wanna see one? I have one right over-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "No!" she sobbed "I wanna see my mommy and daddy! A-a-and Skippy!" she cried and cried and cried in islanders arms till she exhausted herself into a slumber/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" After laying the girl on an old bedroll he had lying around. Islander sat by the fire as he scratched his beard in deep thought… what was he going to do with this child? He couldn't take her back to her parents they clearly didn't want her… it was either that or they had been killed or kidnapped…what responsible parent packs up camp and forgets their own child for Maras sake! he sighed he didn't want to take her to honor hall orphanage… he had heard nothing but nasty things about gredlod the kind and times are so tough nowadays adoption is rare…/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Islander?" Aletta called gently as she tugged on his sleeve holding a book over her chest that almost dwarfed her/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "What is it little one?" she set a spell tomb in his lap emice spike /em/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Will you pwease teach me how to do that? So bandits will leave me alone?" she looked at him with eyes that held so much innocence /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Suddenly an idea popped into his head as his face lit up "ill tell you what" he pulled the little girl onto his lap "you like magic right?" she nodded fiercely as some hair fell into her face "well… how but you be my apprentice? And ill teach you how to do lots of things"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She thought for a moment "like… fire fairies? And things like that?" she said excitement growing in her voice with every word./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yes all the fire fairies you want" he said almost magically/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" She thought hard. She had this plan about having him taking her to honerhall so she could find her parents…but her dad only knew an ice spike … how cool would it be to make a fire fairy? But family does come first…doesn't it… she frowned before she gave her answer/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'm a wizard not a hunter!" Islander squabbled up the hill to examine the bones "they look rather fresh…"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""You don't zink it is zhat child with da red hair zhat came through here ze other day do you?" Islander looked at his mercenary friend with wide eyes and a stomach that felt like it dropped 10 ft./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""lemmie see" Aletta came to stand next to Saeed "By the nine it reeks!"/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Aletta! vhat if it is zhat child?!" Saheed scolded./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""That family was headed that way" she pointed in the opposite direction "besides I'm pretty sure it's a wolf…" /span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Told ja" she smirked. Saheed was an old friend of Islander a mercenary and one of the best at that. And was pretty convinced that magic was 'not a trustable craft' and insisted the girl learned how to use real weapons. So he would train her in archery and with swords and daggers when he came to visit./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""aright' were comin'" Aletta laughed as she followed her father figure towards his home a bright smile adorning her face as various fur armors and weapons clunked around./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""You won't make to much money with all that junk" the pale furred Kahjit commented as the small Breton girl squabbled with all her treasures. And she believed the Kahjit he was after all a thief at once, he had to know what was worth grabbing and worth leaving./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;""Aletta I just vanna make sure you are sure about zis" Saheed said for the millionth time./span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Psh she'll be fine!" Islander waved as if Saheed was a worrying mother "it's good for Aletta to go out and…meander" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Thank you islander" She continued packing, tucking her gold away in a secret pouch she had sewn in for her. "I don't wanna be stuck in high rock my entire life" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Saheed gave an exasperated sigh as the old man evacuated the room to gods know where "do you have every-ting?" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Yeah" Aletta grunted as she saddled her newly owned companion bandit courtesy of Islander/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "How about a map of Skyrim?" he asked smugly crossing his arms over his chest./span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Ummmm…hmmm…" Aletta puzzled for a moment "I guess I should get a map of Skyrim eh?" she laughed sheepishly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "here" He handed her a folded up piece of paper "I already thought of vit" Aletta unfolded the map to get a quick idea of where she was going "zese are all of ze holds" he pointed to some of the more largely decorated symbols "and I have marked vere zere are small towns vit inns you can stay" she nodded absorbing the information like a sponge "Aletta…are you sure you vant to go to Skyrim of all ze places? You could come vit me to elsewhere…" Aletta stopped preparing her saddlebags to give him an annoyed look /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Whats wrong with Skyrim?" Aletta asked as a matter of factly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "iz just…very different…ze people I mean…ze are not like everyone from Cyrodill or high rock" he pointed/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Well of course" she continued preparing her things "it's an entirely different race of people with a new culture"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "you do not understand my words Aletta" he spoke a little to harshly she stopped preparing her things once more and paid more attention to the mercenary "ze people zere zey…are arrogant zey do not like outsiders no one really uses magic and ze say magic iz for veak, it ez hard to find people who are accepting…" he pulled out a pipe and reached for some skooma "I left because I had to vear a hood over my face just to get into any of ze holds…some nights I even had to make camps outside"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" All though this Aletta soaked in the information. Weighing the pros and cons. I was risky…going into a country in the middle of a war. No place to settle down get married or have kids and start a family…if that is something Aletta had wanted out of life… she didn't want to tie herself to someone for the rest of her life it just seemed so …restricting… and she did not want kids…she didn't hate kids she was just never really good with them. She always felt awkward and wasn't sure what to say. She wanted to have stories worth the telling and battle scars worth bragging about. /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I still want to go Saheed" she sighed "I wanna see Skyrim for myself and meet it's people…I can't explain why I want to I just…" she sighed frustrated "this is just something I have to do" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" He looked at her for a second, ears flattened against his skull as if he were trying to figure out something "you are not ze little Breton girl any more are you?" he paused a second taking in a drag from his pipe "you are so grown up…I cannot stop you from you hearts desires vut" he paused and pulled small gold compass out of his pocket "I can help you vit it" Aletta took the compass in her and studied it "I found zit at an inn von day and I never use it so-"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Aletta wasted no time embracing her friend in a hug "I wont ever forget this Saheed…you guys gave me a future s I could go and live my dream and I thank you guys so much for that…thank you" she teared up and buried her face in his shirt" /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" Saheed wasn't sure what to say so he simply hugged her back…he never quite knew what to do with crying people/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Awww…" Islander came in sniffling "that was touching"/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Have you been there the entire time?" Aletta asked accusingly/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I will be wherever I want to be for as entirely as I want it is my house!" he exclaimed "I went to go get you something" he produced a brown leather journal from is robes "I thought id never use this…and I was right so you can have it" Aletta took the book and flipped through the waiting to be inked pages /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "Thank you islander" she hugged the old man/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "It seems like just span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_593815258"span class="aQJ"yesterday/span/span you were trying to cast fire fairies in the street" she laughed /span/span/span/p
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p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;" "I'll miss you two" she sighed "I promise ill write letters all the time/span/span/span/p
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