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Hi readers chapter 4 done and dusted, the beginning of something new. Hope you enjoy

Chapter 4: light

I woke up in the middle of the night, and just lay there for a while just staring at the ceiling boards until I heard the door to the house open. I get up to investigate and in the darkness I see a stick on the other side of the stairs on a plaque. I grab the stick and make my way down the steps, skipping the one that creaks and see the door open slightly. I can see green light pouring through the doorway, I lift the stick ready to swing. It looked fearsome enough with 3 prongs that surround crystals in the middle, like a really long handled mace. I open the door and poke my head out. To my left the guard still stands at the massive wooden gate with a torch in hand and another walking along the stone walls. To my right the market is empty and with it the street. Nobody was around and I relax a bit until I remember the green light and look up.

It's the northern lights in Skyrim's night sky, the most beautiful greens you've ever seen with blues and yellows too. From a deep forest green to a bright emerald green to turquoise and sapphire blues, bright streaks of yellow sunlight breaking through here and there in an endless ribbon of ever changing colour and light. I felt a familiar presence behind me but kept watching the curtains of light, I must have stood like that for hours because I watch them fade as dawn approached from behind me. Even though having no sleep I didn't feel tired. I turned around and the sunlight cast a heavenly halo around Angela. She stepped out of the way and I was hit by morning light and in the warmth of the sun I fell asleep there standing facing the morning sun.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and opened my eyes to see Angela. The sun was higher up now and my face was starting to burn. "First time seeing the Northern lights?" mesmerising aren't they? But it's day now and I would like my staff back." "Staff?" I look to my hands and was indeed holding a five foot staff in my hands, I quickly gave it to her and she saw my look of curiosity. "They for people who do not have the gift to wield magic and each staff allows you to cast a specific spell. All you do is squeeze and…" A ball if white light shot out of the staff and floated at walking pace to a nearby wall where it stuck and stayed there then just disappeared after some time. I was amazed and tried it myself with the exact same effect. "Do you get staves of destruction?" She smiled a knowing smile and slowly nodded. "I'll show you…" and with that I followed her back to the house.

Back outside with staves that shot shards of ice, balls of fire and bolts of lightning I was happily throwing these destructive elements at the city wall. Not a mark left on the wall I set about to getting building materials from the house and dragged them to the black smith shop. Adrianne was using the grind stone and left me to my business. Angela disappeared as per usual and I had all day to make what I want. I first tested if you can wield the staves with just one hand and I could quite easily. I then tested if squeezing it with other items, like pliers, would work and they did. After that I built a little wooden frame with 2 pieces of bent metal sitting in it and always touching because of counter weights keeping them closed. I pushed a staff through the plates and the pressure from the plates charged the staff a bit but not for long enough to fire.

I extended the plates so it would squeeze the staff for longer before passing through and releasing the pressure. I pushed the staff through and the plates squeezed it long enough to charge it then once it passed through it fired. Unfortunately I didn't give much forethought if it did work because I was holding the end where the fireball comes out and shot myself in the stomach and set myself alight. After jumping into the blacksmiths quenching trough filled with water I was ok, no front shirt, no chest hair and a bit more wisdom but ok. I repeated the experiment again and again without setting myself on fire and saw my invention worked. I then quickly built another wooden frame to hold the staves in a circular arrangement with them all pointing the same way. I then turned the wheel that the staves were on and forced them to pass through the plates and fire. I only had the three staves but I turned that wheel anyway. Ice shard, lightning bolt, fireball, ice shard, lightning bolt, fire ball. Destructive elements firing from the ends of the staff. I decided that was enough for today and left everything where it was and remade my iron sword but as it should be and tested it out.

Having done my days work and the sun setting I went back home. I met Angela inside, we ate, shared a bottle of mead and spoke about my singed chest hair but instead of going to bed I walked outside and watched the Northern lights, Angela watching them next to me and we just stood and stared. At some point I decided I was tired and went to bed happy with my accomplishments and fell asleep.

Now our character starts to influence this world with his future knowledge, how will this affect things? find out in chapter 5

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