The two arrive in Winterhold, knocking down a trash can outside the house. "Ow." Shin uttered as he stood up. Ingrid bursts out of the house armed with a glowing red baseball bat and wearing a light blue bathrobe. "Who's– oh… it's just you. Get inside and say goodbye to your friend." Ingrid said to Shidak-Charn. "[I rented what the Tamriellians call a 'motel' near here. We shall meet again tomorrow.]" Shin informed Shidak-Charn.

"[Until next time.]" Shidak-Charn said as Shin walks away. He enters the house and slithers upstairs as Ingrid puts away her bat into an umbrella stand. "Hey," Ingrid called, "What were you doing with your friend?" she asked. "I fought another flaming werewolf. Well, I exxxtinguished the fire from a dissstance with the…" Shidak-Charn mumbled. "Speak up, I can't hear you." Ingrid requested, mockingly.

"I usssed the water bottle! It worksss, okay! Are you happy?" Shidak-Charn exclaimed angrily. "I knew it! It worked!" Ingrid exclaimed. "Pleassse, it wasss a good idea at the time, but we're not exxxperimenting with different liquidsss." Shidak-Charn complained. "No! This weekend, you and I are going into the woods with a duffle bag full of bottles and we're going to practice. You know, just in case." Ingrid suggested excitedly. "Sssorry, the zoo wantsss me in the laboratory for resssearch on Akaviri macaquesss on Loredasss and Sssundasss." Shidak-Charn explained.

"Hmph. Fine, but the day you get a break we're going into the woods!" Ingrid scolded. "It isss inevitable. Good night." Shidak-Charn said, gritting his teeth in annoyance as he continues upstairs. He enters the barren guest room, barring basic furniture and a cradle. He looks into the cradle and sees three Tsaesci infants sleeping. He smiles as he caresses their heads before slithering into bed.

"Wait, I need to brush my teeth." he thought as he opens his eyes. The next day he readies himself for work, wearing winter clothes over a long-sleeved shirt and a tail sleeve made from jean cloth, then heads out the door with a leather sling bag after Ingrid goes out the door, also in winter clothes. "See you later." Ingrid said to Shidak-Charn as she walks over to the nearby College of Winterhold in the distance. Shidak-Charn waves briefly to her before slithering east. He eventually arrives at a large white domed structure near the coast of Winterhold; the BioDome Zoo.

He enters a back door of the structure into a laboratory with various apparatuses and animals, most notably a cage with small monkeys. "It looks like nobody's here yet." he thought as he puts his bag on a table. He hears a knock on the door and then opens it to find Shin, wearing a red scarf, glowing red eyes, a red stripe on his head, and a disturbing grin. "Shin, are you okay?" Shidak-Charn asked in Akaviri. Shin screams "Ore sanjou!", pointing at himself with his right thumb and then outstretching his left hand, the right stretched behind his body, before pouncing on Shidak-Charn.


Hours before in a desert of Morrowind, police, a tow truck and an ambulance arrives at the attack site, two paramedics loading the Dunmer into the ambulance before driving away. "Thank you for reporting this. You may not know this, but we were looking for people like him for two years. A mass outbreak of people trapped in Oblivion, freed by sigil stones. You've done a great service to Tamriel." a female Dunmer officer informed Toshiro and Cal. "We were just bystanders of the attack when the guy was put out by some vigilantes." Cal informed. "What did they look like?" the officer asked as she readied a notebook.

"One had a closed snake head helmet with glowing triangular eyes and another looked like he was wearing a red dragon helmet and spandex." Toshiro described. "The first guy's been seen all over Skyrim. He's seen mostly in Winterhold fighting small-time crooks. The other guy's new, we might have to investigate him." she commented. "Mister Horatio, your mother is here. I still need a word with Mister Tomari." the officer informed. Cal walks towards a green hatchback as the officer walks closer to Toshiro. "Have you decided?" she whispered.

"Umm… about what?" Toshiro asked in confusion. "Your decision to join the Blades, have you decided? After that incident you should've made up your mind." she answered. "*SIGHS* I'm only a trainer, right? I'll do it, but I'm doing it for the safety of the world." Toshiro answered reluctantly. "I will relay your decision to the Grandmaster. Thank you. You're doing the right thing." the officer answered. Toshiro walks away and enters Cal's mother's car in the backseat as Cal sits next to his elderly mother.

"Hello sweetie, how have you been? I haven't seen you since Cally's birthday." Cal's mother asked. "Mom, please. Not in front of my roommate." Cal pleaded, embarrassed. "Tonight was horrible; first I was attacked as I returned from work, the crash, then we were attacked by a flaming werewolf, believe it or not." Toshiro rambled. "How have you been?" Toshiro asked. "Splendid! I bought this car from an Akaviri dealer and despite its looks I managed to outrace some kids n' their fancy car. Are all your cars this good?" Cal's mother asked.

"Most of them are. Tamriellic cars are more impressive with their flight capabilities." Toshiro answered. Cal's mother starts the car and drives off. "When I was a girl we went from A to B on the road. We didn't need any fancy flywheelies." Cal's mother continued. Throughout the trip she chatted on, to Cal's annoyance and Toshiro's interest. They eventually arrived back home where the two exited the car.

"Bye sweetie! Say hello to Gwendolyn for me tomorrow at work!" Cal's mother said as she began to back out of the driveway. Toshiro waves at her as she drives away. "I see your talkativeness runs in the family, yet you were pretty quiet along the way." Toshiro mocked as they entered the house.

To be continued…