Claudia was exhausted when she finally stumbled into her room that night. Farkas had made her go through sword drills until she could barely lift her arm. He said a bandit wouldn't pause in the middle of a fight to let her rest. It made it even worse when he made her use a sword she wasn't use to. Claudia was use to fighting with a lighter sword that she could move quickly. But Farkas had given her a heavy two handed blade that she was stuck using the whole day. The reason Farkas gave was that if she ever lost her preferred sword she would have to know how to use a different weapon proficiently.
Claudia had been with the Companions almost her entire life. Kodlak had found her outside Jorrvaskr with a note containing her name and a message: "Keep her safe". There was nothing to be found of her parents and no one knew where she had come from. Kodlak decided to take her in. When she got old enough to start learning the art of sword fighting, she became Farkas' Apprentice.
Claudia, now 15, had been training with Farkas since she was six winters old. She was a natural, and had become very skilled with sword and bow. She was also quite stealthy, and preferred light armor over heavy. Even though she was Nord, Claudia was small and agile, not big and bulky like many of her Nordic brethren. Naturally, Farkas often had her in heavy armor to make sure she could "handle anything".
The next day when Claudia woke up, she was sore from head to toe. Getting up, she splashed the cool water from the basin on her face to help wake up. She opened her wardrobe and took out her leather armor. Once dressed, she strapped her knives onto her belt with her preferred sword and put the hidden knife in her boot. Claudia left eh other whelps snoring in their beds and went upstairs to the main hall. The heat of the fire met her as she got to the top of the stairs making her feel a little drowsy. She saw Farkas sitting at the table and decided to join him.
"Morning." She greeted.
The large Nord snorted into his tankard, "You should've been up an hour ago."
"Yeah, well I was tired," Claudia yawned, grabbing a bowl of bran, "if you wanted me up so badly you could've come and woken me up."
Farkas had started to retort when Aela cut him off. "Stop bickering you two," she said, walking briskly into the hall through the front doors, "We have just received news that a dragon has attacked Helgen."
Claudia choked on her breakfast. Pounding a large hand between her shoulder blades, Farkas turned to Aela, "What did you say?"
"There haven't been dragons around for centuries," Claudia wheezed with watering eyes.
"That's the thing," the Huntress said. "If they are all dead why did one destroy Helgen?"
Claudia nor Farkas had an answer to this.