Chapter One
I am an Imperial that was wrongfully convicted at the border of Skyrim. I was near the border and the Stormcloaks were ambushed by the Legion and I was taken into custody with the head of them Ulfric Stormcloak. He did not seem so bad but the Legion was what I grew up believing in. The Imperial city was where I grew up and with the Legion is my family line. I am Solena Statius.
This is for the children who have been left behind by their own parents who went to fight in this nonsense of a war or just flat out left behind. I the woman who saved who I could, kill all who got in my way to keep these children safe only to be tamed after adopting the first two children I saved I married for their sake. This story is not one of which that takes place during the war but shortly after during the rebuilding.
A war hero to the Legionaries, who killed Ulfric Stormcloak, after fighting her way to Legate started to do other jobs for the people, giving coins to the poor, running petty errands for shops, helping people out of random problems, all things that she could do to help the people of Skyrim. She met a young girl named Sofie, a bright Nord, and daughter of a fallen Stormcloak soldier selling flowers on at the dock entrance of Windhelm. Windhelm was the first place I went to after the war to help because they had the most destruction. I was moved to pity when I found out this little girls story I just had to adopt her and that I did.
"Welcome to your new home, Sofie."
"Mama! I love it is the best I could hope for. Thank you for adopting me."
"You're welcome my daughter, this is my House Carl Jordis the Sword Maiden, she will take care of you when I am gone ok"
"When you're gone? But you just got home and this was our first day in our home mama."
"Yes well mama is a very busy woman I'm sorry but I can't exactly stop what I'm doing and stay home, I'm a warrior not a house wife."
I watched as Sofie went to her room looking solemn and gloomy. It wrenched my heart to see her like that still after I just saved her from the cold. At first I took it as an insult thinking that she was being selfish and needy, but I will soon realize that life with a child can be hard especially a board lonely one. Asking all these questions when sometimes all I wanted to do was sleep when I came home. Asking if I bought her a present or if she could keep a stinky skeever (I said no). all she did was wine when I would tell her I would be leaving again. Sometimes she would beg me to stay saying she would be better and do all her chores without being asked. Acting like I didn't want to be around her begging for attention. Soon enough I was finished in Windhelm heading to Riften, Which is where I could have been at sooner if it weren't for all the letters I would get from Sofie and having to go back to Solitude to console her or help Jordis calm her after she would throw a fit till I came home. In the next hold I would visit I did not guess how bad this orphan problem really was.
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