La la la, lemme just stroll on in and post this right here...

Looking to Malborn as she gave Razelan her drink, he gave the barest hint of a nod to her. Razelan said he would do anything and a distraction would be perfect for her to make a mad dash for the information she had to find.

"There's something you can go Razelan." Selyna smiled seductively at him,

"Anything for my one, true friend!" He gulped down the drink hastily.

"I need you to make a scene, maybe get everyone's attention for a few minutes?" Batting her eyes at him he nodded to her.

"Of course! Anything for my one, true friend! You could say that making a scene is my specialty." Razelan said as he slowly rose to his wobbly feet and stumbled over to the middle of the room and began to speak.

Selyna was quick to act as soon as everyone's attention was on Razelan, going behind the bar Malborn ushered her in through the small hallway then through the kitchen where there was a room with a chest and barrels on wine inside. The Khajiit woman didn't seem to care what they were doing at all as she prepared the food. Selyna opened the chest and pulled her gear out, changing with Malborn's help. Sneaking through the next door, she stopped behind an open door and listened to the conversation the Thalmor soldiers were having about dragons and the Thalmor wizards. Once they began their rounds was when she moved, quick as a fox and silent as a whisper past the guards, taking them out silently one by one. If there was a chance that she wouldn't have been seen then she wouldn't have killed the guards but she needed the information and they stood in her way. The burden of the people she had killed over the years made her pause sometimes but it was her duty and she only ever killed when she had no other choice. Kill or be killed. Elenwen's solar was the hardest part of the mission but Selyna had felt that saving Malborn and Etienne had been well worth it. Delphine's distrust, however, was where she drew the line.

"I was so sure that the Thalmor were behind it." Delphine seemed lost in thought,

"How could you think they were behind it? Do you not pay attention to anything at all?" Moving over to the table with the map of Skyrim marked with the dragon burial mounds on it.

"The Thalmor aren't doing a damn thing but taking prisoners and spreading their filthy lies." Selyna shook her head at Delphine, the woman had to be dense.

"The journals spoke of Esbern hiding somewhere in Riften, who is Esbern?" Selyna had to change the subject before she stormed off on the woman.

"Esbern? That old man is still alive and the Thalmor are hunting him? Esbern was a Blade, he knows more about dragonlore than anyone alive. We have to get to him before the Thalmor do. If he's in Riften then I think he would be in the Ratway, find Brynjolf, he'll help you." Selyna groaned inwardly, Brynjolf was the one man she had sought to avoid when she was in Riften, the man flirted far too much with her. Not that she thought him an ugly man, he was quite handsome but every time she thought about another man it seemed as if Farkas kept appearing in her mind. Farkas was a jealous man, not that he had ever hurt her in his jealousy, she was sure he would hunt another man down. It worried her, almost all of her kin were men and when she went back to Solsthiem...would he follow her?

"I'll go to Riften and find Esbern." Selyna didn't give the woman time to say anything else because she climbed the stairs out of the secret room in the Sleeping Giant Inn and left.

Selyna sent a missive to Jorrvaskr to receive any news, a part of her didn't want to make the time to go back Whiterun. The source of her problem was Farkas, what was she to do? Now that she was becoming more aware of his growing presence, his stalking, it seemed as if she was in a fight or flight situation. Selyna felt as if she was closed in a small room with a locked door, trying to kick down the door only worked but so much and so she needed to find another way out with no window to help her. Her red eyes scanned each person discreetly as she pushed the doors open to Riften and made a slow entrance, no one seemed to notice her but hidden eyes were everywhere in Riften. Moving into the market, she saw the man she was looking for and walked towards him but couldn't shrug off the feeling of being watched. Was it paranoia or was someone watching her?

"Ah, lass. It has been awhile." Brynjolf gave her a charming smile, ever the flirtatious man that he was, Brynjolf loved putting on a charming smile for the beautiful dunmer lass in front of him.

"Hello Brynjolf." Selyna smiled but felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up, turning just a little, she looked around and saw nothing but the normal Riften residents.

"Is there something wrong lass?" Brynjolf whispered sofly,

"I think I'm being followed."

Brynjolf was more than happy to accommodate Selyna and moved to the Ragged Flagon, he could see the lass was spooked and wanted whatever she had to say to be privacy of the bar.

"I'm looking for...an older man, I was told he may be hiding out in the Ratway." Selyna nodded her head to Brynjolf as he brought her over a flagon of ale.

"Thank you."

"I know your guy, he's hiding in the Ratway Warrens. He paid good coin to make sure no one knows he lives there...Why do you ask?" Brynjolf sat down with his own Flagon across from her and studied her.

"It is a matter of life and death for this country." Selyna set her flagon down and leaned back on her chair, there was more on her mind than that and Brynjolf could tell.

"That it lass?" He leaned on the table, flagon in one hand while the other lay on the table.

"I need a favor Brynjolf, you cannot do it but others can. I will pay for it to be done but I need it done as soon as you can." Pulling her coin purse out, she counted out five stacks of gold, each with ten gold per stack.

"What can I do for you lass?" Brynjolf took a swig of his flagon then set it down, seeing as Selyna became serious.

"I need lookouts. If I'm being followed I need to know by who, the why isn't needed."

"If it is the Dark Brotherhood, I can not help you lass." Brynjolf rubbed his red beard with his hand and watched her reaction.

"It is not. I have a feeling I know who it is but I need to know. Please, just do this for me Bryn, please." Selyna begged and he gave in, pretty faces were his weakness.

"Alright lass, alright. I'll have a few lookouts see if you are being followed. You get to the Ratway Warrens and we'll talk later." Brynjolf stood up with his flagon in hand and moved tot he bar.

Selyna downed her drink and grabbed her pack, hopefully Esbern was in a talkative mood.

Surprise wasn't something that came easy to her but when she found a lone door in the Ratway Warrens, Selyna could not have believed her luck. Though the way to the Warrens wasn't easy, she was ambushed by Thalmor and their blood now stained her blade but the odd door she stood before had her puzzled. It was a very sturdy door with a slit so that whomever lived inside could see who came knocking. Selyna knocked then waited, the slit slid open and an old man stood there looking at her.

"Go away!" He yelled at her,

"Esbern? Wait! I'm a friend, open the door." Selyna tried softly to the old man,

"What? No, that's not me! I'm not Esbern." The old man shook his head and sneered at her.

"Esbern, It's alright. Delphine sent me to find you."

"Delphine? How do you...? You finally found her and she led to me..."

"We need your help to stop the dragons Esbern." Selyna tried to persuade the old man but he seemed lost in memories for quite some time.

"Delphine kept up the fight all these years. Hold on, this'll just take a moment." Esbern closed the slit and began to unlock the door, Selyna stared at the door incredulously as he urged her to wait as he began to unlock several locks.

Once the locks were all open, he threw open the door, pulled her in then closed the door once more, locking the mechanisms as Selyna regained her footing and turned to the old man and saw chains on the back of the door.

"By Azura, are you trying to stop a dragon from coming in the Ratway?" Shaking her head Esbern smiled warily,

"Now we talk."

"Yes." Selyna agreed hurriedly.

"So, Delphine keeps up the fight after all these years?" His voice was soft, the man must have held a place in his heart for the woman.

"I thought she would have seen that it was hopeless years ago, I tried to tell her...I tried to tell her." Esbern shook his head and sighed.

"What do you mean 'it's hopeless'? It can't be hopeless!"

Esbern went on a rant about a prophecy and Alduin, then he lamented the lost Blades and how he had tried to tell them how hopeless it was to try and stop what was bound to happen.

"Wait, wait. Esbern, we are talking about the same Alduin who is resurrecting the other dragons?" She interrupted,

"Yes, yes you know! But you refuse to understand!" Selyna looked at Esbern as if he had a crazed mind.

"Understand what? Alduin has something to do with the end of the world? The literal end of the world?" Selyna shook her head, how could one dragon cause the end of the world?

Destroying Skyrim, yes, but the end of the world? She could not believe that.

"Oh yes, it's all been foretold. Then end has begun and Alduin has returned. Only the Dragonborn could stop him but there hasn't been a Dragonborn in centuries..." Selyna looked up in excitement and grabbed the old man in the middle of his speech,

"Wait! Esbern, I am the Dragonborn!"

"What? You? The Dragonborn? Then there is hope! The Gods haven't abandoned us! We must go...Let me gather a few things and we will leave." Esbern happily ran over to his bed and began to pack his things, debating on what to bring with him as he moved from his sleeping area to the counter where he kept his dishes.

Once his pack was full to bursting, he turned to her and nodded.

"Let us go now." Opening the door, Selyna pushed him behind her and listened.

"There they are! Get them!" Selyna drew her blade and Esbern readied his magic.

Selyna charged as several Thalmor came up the stairs to the walkway that led to Esbern's home. Wuuthrad sunk into the chest of a robed Thalmor as Lightning crackled behind her then struck an armored Thalmor who was coming up the stairs. Pulling her blade free, she whipped her weapon to the side and a sickening crack was heard as Wuuthrad collided with another robed Thalmor's head, splitting it open as steel bite into flesh and bone. Esbern struck the same armored Thalmor with lightning once more and Selyna jumped down, Wuuthrad smashed down onto the Thalmor agent, cutting from the top of his skull to his shoulders in half. Retching Wuuthrad free of the body, Selyna turned and looked at Esbern.

"We have to go, now!" She urged the old man and he followed after her as quickly as he could.

Thankfully, they weaved through the Ratways and only fought two more Thalmor but they were covered in blood when they emerged in the Ragged Flagon. Brynjolf spit out his ale when he saw the pair,

"Lass! What in Divines name happened?" Selyna looked at Brynjolf and she sighed.

"Thalmor. Somehow they found a way around the Ragged Flagon and into the Warrens, we just had to fight our way out." Selyna wiped her hand on her face, getting some of the blood of of her face.

"Lass, here, lemme get you a cloth." Brynjolf ducked behind the bar and grabbed her a linen cloth, she wiped the blood from her face and tried to get some of it off of her armor.

"Thank you Bryn, I appreciate it." She handed the cloth back to Brnyjolf and she looked back at Esbern,

"Alright, Esbern. Let's continue." Waving goodbye to Brynjolf, Selyna led Esbern out of the Ragged Flagon and up into the night.

Riften was quiet and so they too, had to be just silent as the town now was. Selyna bade Esbern to wash of the blood from his hands and face as quickly as he could. Once Esbern was finished the pair crept up a flight of stairs then walked their way out of the town, when the doors to Riften closed behind them both uttered a sigh of relief and praise to the Divines.

"And now we make our way to Riverwood, let us take a carriage there." Selyna motioned for Esbern to follow her and he did so, she paid the nearby carriage driver 20 gold for the both of them.

Selyna climbed up into the back of the carriage and helped Esbern up so that he could sit beside her. Once they were both in the carriage, Esbern sighed and leaned forward, his hands clasped together in front of him.

"We have much to do and very little time." Esbern ran a hand over his face then sat up and looked over to Selyna who was leaning back against the carriage wall.

"Do not wallow in doubt Esbern, we have an abundance of time where Alduin does not." Selyna sat up straight and looked to her companion.

"His time is running out and he knows this, one move that is wrong and we have him within our grasp. Also, we have you to help, there has to be someway to defeat Alduin and only a Blades Loremaster could find the way." Selyna smiled at Esbern who seemed to be pleased by her comment but he was wary as well.

"I can only hope that there is a way."