Bleak Falls Barrow
Elyse had made her way up the hill toward where she believed Bleak Falls Barrow was. Though she did notice a tower and wanted to take a quick detour. After all, no-one knew what was in towers unless they went to go kill the bandits to find out. However, when she arrived there, there wasn't even a live bandit left. Stunned and bewildered, she flipped over a corpse and studied the female for a moment, noticing char marks on it. Shaking her head she went through the tower to see if there was at least something valuable left, though she left the tower with a frown on her face when she had found not even a gold coin. Crouching back down into her sneaky stance, she headed back toward the Barrows. Taking out her bow, she notched an arrow and began to move even more slowly as she rounded the corner and moved to climb up the mountain rocks a bit on her left. After all, if she were to piss off a bandit, she'd be safe and out of harm's way. Best strategy in doing that.
Once up in a safe place, she managed to see figures moving through the blinding snow and picked them off to the best of her ability. Which, most of the time, required her to not notch another arrow and wait for the bandit to stop looking for her. It took a long while. Especially since the blinding white snow in a blinding daylight just became blinding white snow in pitch black skies. Okay, so it wasn't pitch black but it was night, and it was still hard to see as she carefully made her way to each corpse to pick up arrows, or gold before entering the ruin itself. Now the ruin wasn't something that she particularly liked.
"I am definitely going to tell Farengar that he can kiss my arse if he wants to send me off into another Draugr infested ruin. I can... I can almost smell well preserved, yet rotting flesh," Elyse muttered quietly to herself as she snuck through area, killing off bandits that she came across while looking through the urns and picking up whatever item she deemed as useful. The air was completely stuffy, and at times she'd bury her face into her stuffed bag and sneeze. She froze in slight fear when she heard someone shouting. She was focused on listening to the man's voice that she didn't hear the person that was walking up behind her.
"You, what do you think you're doing here!?" Elyse screamed, drawing an arrow back on the bowstring as she aimed it at the person who had walked up behind her. Her eyes scanned the Bosmer, dislike apparent on her face. She lowered the bow but kept the arrow drawn back on the bowstring as the Bosmer glowered down at her.
"If you're here for the golden claw, you're shit out of luck. I'm here for that, and you can't have it," the slightly tanned Bosmer woman said as she shoved past Elyse, knocking her over and heading down the stairs. As Elyse pulled herself up and picked up her arrow and bow that had fallen from her hands, a piercing scream echoed from down the stairs up into the room Elyse was in. Standing up, she quickly made her way down to see what the stupid Bosmer was screaming about, and she stopped dead in her tracks. Webs; there were giant, spider webs. Steeling herself, she shoved he scantily dressed woman to the side, and cut down the blocked entrance to the room. There she could see the giant Frostbite Spider crawling down from its web, and she quickly armed her bow and Arrow to shoot at it. At least until it neared her, and that's when the Bosmer stepped in with some flames to help burn the arachnid. When it skittered away on flames, Elyse stepped back out into the room and shot one final arrow and watched the giant thing fall to the ground dead.
"Hah! Take that you creepy spider!" Elyse shouted excitedly as she ran toward it to go talk to the guy that was wrapped up in webs. The Bosmer followed her as well at a slower pace, but glared at the man.
"You! I want that golden claw that you stole from Lucan at the Riverwood Trading place," the Bosmer snarled viciously but the man, whose name was Arvel, said he'd give it to her if we'd cut him down from the web. Elyse, whom seemed smarter than the Bosmer, wasn't trusting of the man, but the Bosmer took the risk and right after his feet touched the ground, he took off running, laughing at how stupid the Bosmer had been. They took off running after him, though Elyse was smart enough to start sneaking around when the Draugr around them woke up and moved to attack the elven woman. Leaving her alone with the Draugr, Elyse had gone to go loot the guy's dead body since he was stupid enough to have ran into a trap with a swinging spiked wall. The sneaky Breton picked up the claw and noticed three patterns on it, memorizing the animal patterns, before moving to go help the Bosmer kill off the rest of the Draugr.
"Here you are; the golden claw. The idiot died by triggering a trap, and I have no need for it," Elyse said as she handed the scantily clad woman who snatched it away from her quickly and turned on her heel to leave the ruins. Scowling, Elyse shook her head and went back to do her assignment that Farengar had assigned to her. It took some time, and a crap load of Draugr to get through, but Elyse made it to the large door with the pattern that mimicked the one that she'd seen on the claw. Pushing in the buttons to get the wheels to turn to the correct animal, she waited with bated breath. She had no idea what would be on the other side. No idea if she would hit the area she needed, or if she had to travel a little more. When the door finally opened up, Elyse grinned widely and walked into the room. She was at the end of the ruins. This meant that the item she needed would be easy to grab and walk away with.
Walking up the steps to the coffin and the giant wall that seemed to be chanting, she hesitantly neared the wall and tried to read the writing on it. At least until swirls of orange and white wrapped around her, the chanting in her head stronger. Her vision blurred and she set her hand on the wall to steady herself before she fell from the dizziness that she felt. When her vision cleared, and the chanting stop she stepped away from the wall with a small scared look. Turning her back to the wall she went to pick up the tablet. After she did, the coffin lid was pushed up and Elyse squeaked a little before running to go hide behind the wall, looting the chest as she went to hide. Staying out of sight, she notched her arrows and let them fly to hit the powerful looking Draugr, silently laughing at how confused it looked when it couldn't find her. It took a bit of time but she killed it, looted its corpse, and left to return the tablet to Farengar, or to at least to stop by someplace and get a mug of beer. After all, she needed it.
She stayed at the inn in Riverwood before taking the journey back to Whiterun. This time she was enjoying the scenery as she walked idly down the road to her destination. She was thinking about that Bosmer that had startled her so badly the night before, and trying to come up with a reason as to why anyone would want to wear such skimpy clothing. That was the only thing that bugged her. It was too cold in Skyrim to walk around with your midriff showing, and your entire legs flashing before people's eyes. She'd been so lost in thought that she hadn't even realized that she was standing in front of Farengar.
"Sorry… Did you say something important?" Elyse asked when she snapped out of her reverie, trying her hardest not to question exactly how she got inside Whiterun and the Dragonsreach Palace so quickly. Farengar just glared at her before shaking his head, before saying that the Jarl wanted to talk to her.
"Not to be rude, but the Jarl can wait. I want a free day to myself after you made me crawl through a Draugr infested ruin," Elyse said as she turned her back to Farengar and left the palace to spend her day to tan in the sun and enjoy the fresh air that wasn't wrought with the disgusting smell of the dead.