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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, all names of TOS characters and any other TOS related items are registered trademarks and/or copyrights of Bethesda, or their respective trademark and copyright holders. This Story is written for fun, not for profit.
Authors Note:
A long time ago, I had the idea of writing this. Now I found the time to do so. I will update every MONDAY and propably midweeks, but i cant say that for sure. But you can count on two capters a week.
If you want to left a review, feel free to do so. Same for ideas, witch can be integrated into the story, I would like to do this a little interactive.
SPOILER-ALART for the whole game.
My goal is it to navigate this Story through the whole game, inclouding Dawnguard, but just to orientat on the story-strings that are given. So it propabliy shouldn't be boring if you know the game as well as I do :)
Aaaand last but not least: I'm not a nativespeaker, so I hope you can forgive me some unpleasant formulations. Maybee someone of you guys could do my beta-reading in english? If you wish so, comment and we figure everything out.
Chapter: 1
Aurora walked slowly towards the great bronze gate of Markarth. Although she had grown up in Skyrim, she had never been in the capital of Reach. He was surprised, how easy the traveling through Reach went, only once she had been attacked by a single scout of the Forsworn. She had been asked by Kodlak White-Mane personally, to execute a mission here. It was the first job she was allowed to carry out alone after her transformation into werewolf.
When she finally arrived at the gigantic gates, she saw that they looked as if they had been made by dwarf's hand. Strange, intricate patterns covered both wings. One of the city guards, who were posted at the gates, came up to her.
"Welcome to Markarth. But I cannot recommend a long visit here. The city isn't safe for strangers. Tell me who you are and what do you want? ".
Aurora brushed a few of her blond hairs from her face and looked at the guard with her piercing blue eyes.
"My name is Aurora Gray-Mane. I belong to the companions", she replied.
"It is an honor Companion, you free to enter the city, but watch out," the guard said and opened the heavy doors, which allowed entrance into the city.
Behind the gate Aurora found a marketplace. About fifty people were in the immediate vicinity. Almost all of them were Nords, some Bretons were among them, occasionally one or two Elves. Suddenly, shouts could be heard, and Aurora began to look around. When she found the source of the screams, a bunch of people that where standing around something, she saw some guards who shoved a path through the crowd, so she took the opportunity to see what had happened.
On the floor of the marketplace were two bodies, a man and a woman, apparently they had killed each other. Shaking her head, Aurora made her way across the Market and into the tavern. She was looking forward to a real bed. After three days of traveling sleeping in the wilderness the thought of a bed was tempting.
She felt compared to her shield sister Aela, still more comfortable in a bed than in the wilderness on the hunt, but maybe it was because she was not as long a werewolf as Aela was.
When she entered the tavern, the older man behind the counter directly offered a room to her. Without long to haggle over the price, she agreed and made her way into the room. For a moment Aurora lay on the bed, which she found in her room, and closed her eyes.
When she awoke, merry laughter could be heard from the taproom. Tiredly she rose and made her way back into the room. Her light leather armor and her sword, which Eorlund had forged for her, where hidden under the long black cloak she wore. After the murder on the marketplace, she wanted to attract as little attention as possible.
The air in the taproom was stuffy and smelled of stale tobacco-smoke. After a few minutes Aurora decided to rather get some fresh air and then to rest the rest of the night, to be refreshed in the morning so she could address her mission and visit the customer.
Slowly strolling she made her way further into the city. The farer she walked into the city, the more she had to climb stairs. The city looked like a Dwemer ruin and probably that was exactly what it was. Never before Aurora had seen architecture in equal rank. Nothing built by human hands could look like these buildings. To her left a stream was flowing beside the road. About twenty meters in front of her she spotted a bridge that swung over the stream and gave access to another city level.
Suddenly she noticed two people standing in front of her in the darkness. One wore ordinary clothes, the other a mage robe and heavy gauntlets, evidently a Vigilant of Stendar, Aurora had met some of them on her travels.
"And you really know nothing about this house?" the Vigilant asked.
"No, I'm sorry. Good night", the other man replied gruffly and made his way further up in the city.
As the Vigilant saw Aurora, he started to walk in her direction.
"Good evening, may I ask you some questions?" He asked in his pleasant voice.
"Of course, but I'm not from Markarth, so I don't know if I can help you."
Aurora looked at the man's face, he was one head taller than herself, even though he was clearly not a Nord. She herself was, thanks to her Breton father also not the tallest person. To be precise, she was even in comparison with a pure-blooded Breton woman rather small.
"I understand, but you still might know something about this house", he said, pointing to a door that was embedded in the rock to her left.
"No, I'm sorry, as I said, I'm not from here. What do you know about the house, Vigilant", she replied with an apologetic look.
"I'm impressed. You have heard of my order. I do not know much, I feel Deadra activity in this house. I just wanted to go inside and look at it. Then this man appeared and I thought I could ask him something that might help me", replied the Vigilant, waving a hand in the direction the man was gone, "But apparently strangers are not very welcomed here".
"Do you need help during the investigation of the house? " Aurora asked.
"This would mean a lot to me, but tell me, who are you?" He asked.
"My name is Aurora Gray-Mane, I'm one of the companions," she said and held out a hand.