Waking up from an Infirmary near Helgen, Oliver soon realized what had occurred near Helgen. Trying to move, he noticed that he had some minor wounds all over his body but the one that hurt him the most was from his right shoulder. To his knowledge, he remembered that an arrow had pierced through it from the front, but he did not believe it would be this bad. Before he could try and get up from the bed he was lying upon, and Imperial Soldier arrived into the Infirmary room.
"Greetings guard, may I ask what your name is?"
"I am Captain Oliver, dweller of Dragonbridge, can you tell me why I am here? Or to begin with, where I am? Also, how long have I have been out?"
"You are here because you have been badly wounded, you were dying because you did not properly treat your wounds in time. We are currently in a Fortress South of Helgen-or what remains of Helgen now. To record, you have been asleep for four days, to be honest, I thought you were dead by now; we got some good healers to help you and you were not responding well"
"Wait, what do you mean 'or what remains of Helgen now'? What happened to Helgen?"
"Well, the day you were brought here, a dragon attack Helgen-"
"A dragon? Do you really think I am that young to believe your lies?"
"By Talos I swear! I did not believe it myself as well but the whole town is not destroyed, shame that is, Helgen was a good stop for refreshments..."
"So you are not lying then..do you know what happened to the lady that I was with, before I was brought here?"
"You mean your potential killer? Well she was taken to Helgen when we found you two. Don't fret, she is probably dead by now, if not by the axe, then by the dragon's rage!"
" No, no, no, no! She wasn't my killer! She was my contractor! She was trying to help me! What do you mean you sent her to be executed!? Are you all crazy! How did you think she was going to kill me!? She's just a Priestess!"
"Woah, calm down! Pardon us for trying to help you, you ungrateful snob!"
"Eh, I don't need this, I don't need you! I need to find her now!"
Getting up, Oliver now felt his bones stiff but his muscles turn to jelly. It was difficult for him to stand up, but with his will, he was able to.
"Ey! Come back you idiot! You haven't recovered fully and you can get a horrible cold from outside! Your body is still weak, come back!"
Oliver now trying to leave the Fortress, he began to head towards the stables and managed to find his horse. Trying his best, he was able to get on his horse and even though it was troublesome for him, he began to ride towards Helgen. At this point, the Infirmary Officer had given up on his attempts to help Oliver and simply began to head back to his room.
Reaching Helgen, Oliver yet again felt unbearable pain, this time a little less worse then the other time, but still painful. Stopping his horse, he then got off and noticed that he felt far better then before. Scoping what was left of Helgen, Oliver soon found himself in a problem. From what he could see of the remaining bodies was that none of them were of a Priestess, and if she was stripped from her clothes, they could not be found anywhere and none of the bodies were similar in stature and shape of her's.
Thinking of ways that Anastasia could have escaped, Oliver took out his map, he knew of a town near by called Riverwood. There were higher chances of her arriving there if she survived, but afterwards? Possibly Whiterun to the nearest cargo carriage or directly back to Markath on foot, he also knew that he was now around three days behind her.
Heading towards Riverwood, Oliver took note of some tracks. He saw that there were two pair of human tracks, both from Imperial Soldier, a woman and a man. At this point, he began to get worried, what if he was heading the wrong path? What if Anastasia was heading towards her dead friend? At this point, Oliver now began to head back, to where they found her dead body.
Now reaching The general area of where the corpse of Anastasia's friend was, Oliver saw that it was kept intact, by now he understood that Anastasia did not arrive here but travelled to Riverwood. Before he approached the body, he began to hear howls of wolves near him. Oliver then took out his sword and was ready to battle the pack.
They came from behind him. He was able to doge an attack from one but another was able to bite his calf, Oliver yelled in agony but quickly stabbed the wolf on the neck; freeing himself and his sword from the dead wolf, two more then came to attack him, feeling still weak Oliver managed to hold back the attacks of both wolves, and surprisingly beat the pack of six wolves while battling with is left hand.
Nearing the body, Oliver decided to give Anastasia's friend a proper burial in the woods of Skyrim. He began to gather rocks and make a make-shift casket along with wood for the Priestess. After his finished the burial ceremony, Oliver decided to head back to Riverwood.
Oliver then decided to approach the Blacksmith's house and saw an Imperial Officer working on a sword.
"Hello Officer, I am Captain Oliver of Dragonbridge. I came here to ask you a few questions about what had occurred in Helgen"
"Ah hello Captain Oliver, your name sounds familiar to me..but sure go ahead"
"Alright, well I wanted to know, what was the name of the Imperial woman that escaped Helgen with you"
"Ah! Now I know why I knew your name! You're the friend of the Priestess..Anastasia! Right?"
"Yes! How did you meet her?"
"Well, she came as a prisoner but I sort of freed her, I know I know, I shouldn't have but I believed her that she was not a criminal, anyways she's heading towards Solitude because she taught she would find you there, you're already some days behind her so you better hurry up!"
"Thank you so much-I'm sorry, what was your name again?"
"Hadvar"
"Well it's a pleasure to meet you, I better get going then!"
Heading towards Solitude, Oliver decided to stop at Whiterun to ask some questions about what Anastasia planned on doing, stopping by the Banneredmare he asked a few of the habitants some questions and decided that even it being near dusk he needed to travel to Solitude as soon as possible. Oliver knew that riding into the wilds of Skyrim was dangerous, and specially when you are not fully restored as him but his objective was only to arrive to Anastasia as soon as possible before she began moving cities again.
By midnight Oliver had only been out of Whiterun Territory and began entering Morthal Territory when he heard some cracklings in the forest, his horse began to be in fright mode and he could now see two red darting eyes staring at him.
"Come out wolves! I've fought you before and killed you all, I can do it again!"
Waiting for an attack, Oliver only heard a response,
"Well looks like you are in bad luck today, have you ever tried killing a vampire?" Devilishly Chucked the being.
