Kyras head falls to the side as her lower body arches and she moans softly into the pillow, her fists gripping the sheets of her soft bed as Aelas tongue slides slowly up her length. Her knees bend and her right hand slides through Aelas mane of fiery red hair and grabs a fistful of it arching her body and pressing her face into herself harder as Aelas tongue enters her.

"God mm- fuck." Kyra mumbles softly biting her pillow as her thighs begin to squeeze Aelas head. Her eyes go to the ceiling as her teeth dig into her lower lip, whimpering as she bucks against Aelas lips.

"I missed you so much." Kyra manages between gasping breaths, she digs her nails into Aelas hair and scalp as she moans and her playful grip turns to a death grip as their bedroom door springs open.

"Ow ba-baby you're hurting me." Aela says from under the sheet as Minette runs into the room.

"Kyra!" The little girl says as she runs for the bed and jumps towards her. Kyra struggles to cover herself with the sheet, hide her shocked expression and straighten her teased and tossed hair all while taking the impact of a running excited child.

"Oh-whoa-hi there sweetheart." Kyra says with a smile hugging her adjusting the sheet further up her body.

"Where's Aela?" Minette asks as Aela slides up from under the sheet.

"Right here honey." Aela moves to the head of the bed and puts her arm around Minette, snuggling her in between the two of them.

"When did you get here Kyra? Where did you go this time? Was it dangerous did you-" Kyra lifts the child over to her lap with a grunt.

"Oh you're getting heavy child, and curious. So many questions before Kyras had her tea." Kyra says as she brushes some bangs from Minettes face and smiles.

"But yes it was! Not to mention exciting!" She adds widening her eyes in excitement and tickling the little girl. Aela had decided to adopt Minette when she visited the Honorhall Orphanage, both of her parents having been murdered by an as yet unknown assassin in their Inn the Winking Skeever in Solitude.

Kyra had been there before, had even met Minette on one occasion she was in the Winking Skeever meeting a contact from the Thieves Guild. Aela had hoped the two of them would get along, once she realized how serious her feelings were for the Dragonborn.

"Lets look here... what did I see now hmm?" Kyra asks as she leans over the bed pulling her leather pack from under it and taking out her journal.

"You two catch up and I'll go see if Valdimar has breakfast going." Aela says sliding out from between the sheets pulling on a large-ish shirt over her nimble and naked body.

"Tell Valdimar I need to see him about some furnishings for the cellar while I'm here." Kyra says looking up from her journal, pointing to a sketch she made of a Dwarven Centurion when she spent an entire night on a perch inside the ruin.

She spent several hours just looking at it, just waiting to see if it moved. She even dared it to move, before she went for the treasure it guarded. Minette examines it closer in stunned awe running her fingers over Kyras rough charcoal sketch.

Aela leans in the doorway for a long moment looking at them, a smile finding its way across her lips as she watches them interact. Kyra wasn't that old herself, barely twenty winters, so young but the face and the scars on her body told of a life much different from any girl Aela knew her age.

"Did you fight it?" Kyra feigns a shocked expression.

"Are you insane? Look at that thing! Would've ripped me to shreds. So I sneaked right by him." Kyra says making a smooth hand gesture through the air with a smug and prideful expression, not to mention the trademark Kyra smirk.

"Really?"

"Really. My heart was pounding in my ears as I knelt at that chest and took out my lockpicks... and just as I slid them in..." Kyra says pausing for dramatic effect.

"What? The Centurion? A walking Skeleton? A draugr?!" Minette asks on the edge. Kyra shakes her head and leans closer.

"It was unlocked. So I grabbed the loot and got out of there like I was on fire. Here I brought you something." Kyra says with a smile leaning back against her pillows and rummaging in her big leather pack that, before she came here to live at Windstad Manor, held everything she'd had in the world. She retrieves an amulet with a big ruby and gold pendant on it and slips it around the little girls neck, tapping the end of her nose.

"Now go eat, and be nice to Valdimar. He's still getting the cooking thing down." She adds as the little girl trots out of the room and she leans over the bed almost completely upside down looking for something to wear besides a bed sheet, as Valdimar knocks on the door Minette left open.

"Excuse me, my Thane?" Kyra sits back upright in the bed brushing her hair back from her cheeks, covering herself again with the sheet.

"Valdimar good, just the man I wanted to see. Speaking of, have you seen something I can wear?" He looks around then takes a house shirt carelessly tossed across a chair and hands it to her, averting his eyes as she stands up and pulls it on over her head, flipping her hair out of the neckline.

"Miss Aela said you required my presence?" Kyra looks in the mirror and ruffles her hair.

"Uh, I do yes. I don't know how long I'll be around for this time around, never do really but I'd like you to make some improvements to the house while I'm gone more specifically the cellar. I saw some rather nice safes that would fit those inlaid shelves in the second room down there perfectly." Kyra rummages through her pack and takes out a coin purse undoing the loop holding it closed. She examines the contents and mutters to herself counting in her head. She then reties it and tosses it to Valdimar.

"Of course, my Thane, and where did you see these?" Kyra makes a face for a long moment then remembers.

"Ah yes! Tell me you love me Valdimar..." She says, her voice trails off as she flips through the pages of her journal until she finds the list of prices and other relevant information she had gotten from the man who ran the shop. She beams as she hands the list to him, beyond proud of herself that for once she didn't just give him something completely obscure to do on relatively no information at all. Valdimar examines the paper and nods.

"Right away, and my Thane?"

"Yes?"

"I dont think Miss Aela would appreciate me ever saying the words "I love you" to you." Kyra looks thoughtful for a moment and rests her hand on Valdimars shoulder in a consoling way.

"You're absolutely right my friend...she would kill you."

"Indeed, my Thane." They stand like this in complete silence for a long moment.

"You can go now." She says patting his shoulder one more time.

"Of course, my Thane." Valdimar bows slightly and exits the room as Kyra throws open the double doors of her wardrobe. Maybe this'll be an easy day for the Dragonborn she thinks to herself. I'll wear something that doesn't protect me from being cleaved in twain, I'll make love to my beautiful girlfriend-

"Excuse me, my Thane, my apologies but there is a General Tullius here to see you."

"...risk my life for the Empire." Kyra says angrily, finishing her thought out loud. She shuts the doors of her wardrobe and walks out of her bedroom.

Peeking over the railing down at the dining table she sees the General standing in the entry way near one end of the table. Minette is beside him staring up at the elderly, yet heavily armored soldier. He looks down at her and she ducks back behind Aela as she ignores the General, putting plates down.

"General Tullius. To what do I owe the pleasure of the Empire here... in my home... on this fine Sundas morning?" Kyra asks, her voice echoing in the main hall as she comes down the stairs, hand sliding along the railing. Tullius' eyes follow her wandering over the long shirt and her bare legs.

"Is there someplace private we can talk?" Aela comes up to Kyras side and hands her a cup of hot tea.

Kyra takes it and kisses Aela softly, to Tullius' visible discomfort, she then takes a sip and nods her head to the right. She leads Tullius through the doorways and into the library where she walks over and warms her bare legs and hands by the fire.

"We've got a situation. I was going to send Rikke here to talk to you but I figured it was time we start dealing face to face." Tullius says as he examines an open book on the table. Kyra waits patiently by the big fireplace and drinks her tea.

"We need information. We want you to find a source of...control over a woman named Anuriel. She serves at the pleasure of Laila Law-Giver as her steward. As such we believe she is privy to information we wouldn't easily get otherwise. I'm sending you to the Rift, seek out Anuriel find incriminating evidence to use against her and bring it to Rikke for further orders." Tullius shuts the book in his hands and sets it down on the table as Kyra looks into the fire for a moment.

"Any objections?"

"No sir."

"Good, then get moving soldier. You're on the Empires' Septims now."