23 Last Seed, entry 2
Apparently the townsfolk couldn't care less that I had just stopped some criminals right outside their front door. I mean, nothing, no reaction; I would have expected something, even if it was negative, that they had liked those guys, but they didn't say a thing about it!
Well, at least I was able to get a little more spending gold by selling some of the spare stuff. I got myself some food and sat on the porch of the shop, watching the mudcrabs forage.
"Miss Nuva, hello!" that annoying little wood-elf, what was his name? Oh, yeah, Fargoth. Fargoth was calling out to me.
"Yes?" I asked, being as polite as possible.
"Miss Nuva, come quickly. Socucius Ergalla wishes to have a word with you," he said, "Oh, and have you seen my ring?"
"What?" I asked, bewildered by his sudden change of subject. "My ring. Those ruffians at the census Bureau took it from me," he said.
What could I do? "Is this it?" I asked, taking out the ring of healing that I had found in the Census Building.
"Oh, yes! Thank you, thank you so much! It's a family heirloom, and I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't found it. You should go talk to Arille, he's my friend and would be happy to see you! He runs the tradehouse in town."
I pushed the little mer off me with a muttered 'no problem', and went back into the census building. The bald man didn't seem too happy to see me.
"One of our tax collectors has gone missing. I was wondering, Miss Nuva, if you had seen him lately. His name is Procius Vitallus, and he went missing on his last tax run."
"Alright, I'll look into it," I told him. And I realized that I would! Strange as it seemed, this place seems to be growing on me.
Anyway, I started looking around town a little, but became distracted when a mudcrab tried to bite my leg off. They sure grow them big here on Vvardenfell. But it got me to thinking, as I froze it and shattered it with the haft of my axe; Just what was it that the mudcrabs were foraging on? They usually don't gather together like that unless it's a big meal.
I went back to the peninsula I had been watching earlier. I found…parts of him.