The festivities that began at nearly the second hour when the wayward travellers stumbled in from the snow, went almost until dawn. Laughs and drinks, stories told by firelight. Near the fifth hour Jod lumbers his way up to bed as Kyra and Lya sit on the stone floor near the fireplace, Kyra's arms wrapped around Lya as she sips her ale.

"I have to hand it to you you've made quite the life for yourself here." Lya says adjusting herself a little laying back against Kyra.

"I do all right." Their fingers interlace as they gaze into the fire slowly fading in the fireplace.

"A girlfriend and everything..." Lya says looking down at the floor.

"Lya..."

"No it's-its fine. Actually it's not fine." Lya pulls away from her and gets to her feet.

"Whats wrong?"

"You left, that's whats wrong. You left the fight, and then you left us. You left your friends, your responsiblities...you left me, because some drunk in Cheydinhal says you might be Dragonborn?" Lya says, her green eyes flickering in the fading light as she wipes a few angry tears from her eyes.

"I wrote you, every chance I got, every city I stopped in..." Kyra approaches her sliding her hand down Lyas arm.

"I still love you, you know. Don't think just because it's been almost three years that I've just forgotten what you said you swore you loved me t-" Kyra shakes her head from side to side and brushes the hair from her cheek leaning in to kiss her soft lips. She could taste her tears as she slides Lyas hands down her sides and rests them on her hips.

"Come to bed." Kyra says as they sway a little in the glow of the firelight, her eyes meeting Lyas. Lya nods as Kyra takes her hand turning and leading towards the stairs as Lya reaches out for the bottle of wine on the edge of the table, barely circling her fingers around it before she gets yanked along behind Kyra.

The air in the room was heavy, the fire had burned all night and the room was a furnace. Lya drops her bare feet onto the hard wooden floor pulling a throw made from a snow bear pelt around her naked body, she puts out the fire for good, smothering it with a thick leather hide thrown over the smoldering remains. She slides back into bed working her way back against Kyra's warm body. Sliding her fingers down her soft skin, Kyra makes a barely audible sound and moves a little.

"Awake already?" Kyra mumbles sleepily a small smile creasing her face as she rubs her cheek against her pillow.

"It was unbelievably hot in here." Lya exposes Kyras shoulder and pressing her lips to it. Kyra turns in place, on to her stomach and sits up on her elbows pressing her lips to Lyas.

"I agree." Kyra's lips part and their tongues meet. Kyra pushes aside the blanket sliding on to Lyas lap as her hair spills down Lyas pillow, her bare legs sliding over Lyas hips.

Kyra feels Lyas hands slide up her back pulling her closer as their kiss deepens, Kyra grinding herself on Lyas lap. Lyas lips travel across Kyra's cheek, the underside of her jaw and up her neck to her earlobe.

Lya slides it between her teeth nibbling on it making Kyra whimper. She could feel Lyas hand slide down her side and in between them and she raises on her knees a little to give access to Lyas fingers as they slide over her clit.

"I've missed you." Lya says softly her lips pressed to Kyra's ear as she uses her free hand to push Kyras hip down, sinking two of her long fingers into Kyras wet opening until she rests in Lyas palm.

Lya loved the way it made Kyra tremble and gasp against her, how every muscle in Kyra's body tightened, even the ones surrounding her fingers. Kyra was warm and wet, and Lya was in heaven with the beautiful woman back in her bed. They never show it not since Lya confessed her feelings to Kyra that night, standing soaked in the rain outside of Anvil shouting over the wind, but Lya loved her more than anything on Tamriel.

Kyras dark hair falls across her face, her eyes closed as she slowly rises and falls on Lyas fingers. Kyra manages only soft gasping breaths and small whimpers as she runs her hand over her left breast flicking her hair back from her face and biting her lower lip. Her free hand falls on to the headboard as she gasps feeling Lya add a third finger, she moans out her name.

Kyra pulls Lyas face to her breasts, Lyas lips burn into her skin as her tongue encircles her right nipple. It becomes erect in her mouth as Kyra's fingers slide through Lyas hair and she gasps softly lips pressed into Lyas mane of soft brown ringlets. Lya looks up at Kyra who smiles softly tracing her finger down Lyas cheek and pressing her lips to hers.

Lya slides her fingers out of Kyra and slowly brings them to her lips tasting her. She rests her hands on her hips, falling back into the pillows as Kyra leans down to kiss her, still whimpering and trembling. Lya brings Kyra's hips forward up her body as Kyra helps her, moving her knees up to slide Lyas head between them. Kyra slides her fingers through Lyas hair as she presses her wet slit to Lyas lips. Lyas tongue almost immediately makes its way up Kyra's length as Kyra tosses her head back.

"Lya... G-Shit." She cries out to the ceiling as she tries to keep her thighs from clenching around Lyas head. Kyra inhales sharply feeling Lyas tongue push its way inside her. Her nails dig into the wood of the headboard as she whimpers.

Lyas lips encircle her clit as she pulls Lyas head closer with a fistful of her hair. It had been so long since she'd felt Lyas touch, she'd nearly forgotten what it felt like to be hers. She tries not to think about Aela, and how this makes twice she's been unfaithful to her girlfriend. Lya holds Kyras hips and rolls her onto her back looking up into those big blue eyes as her tongue enters her again.

Kyras lower body bucks forcing Lya to hold her down with both hands. Kyras fingers slide through Lyas soft ringlets of chestnut hair as she tosses her head back and moans, her slender back arching. Her knees bend and fall apart as she bucks against Lyas lips. Kyras moans grow more urgent as she digs her teeth into half of her lower lip and reaches up. She braces her hand against the headboard pushing herself back into the bed.

Lya looks up at almost the instant that Kyra looks down, her blue eyes betraying how close she was to pure ecstasy. It only encourages Lya, her tongue sliding up her length and Kyras hands slide down the sheets balling them up in her fists. Lyas hands find hers and their fingers interlace.

Kyras moans turn to a near scream as she arches and climaxes at the moment Lyas tongue enters her again. She grips Lyas hands so tight her knuckles give an audible pop as Kyra tries to form words and fails, instead pulling Lya to her lips and kissing her. A kiss that feels like it lasts an eternity Kyra's leg hooking over Lyas waist her foot sliding down the back of her thigh.

Lya circles Kyra in her arms as Kyra tries to catch her breath, panting against Lyas chest. Lya runs her fingers down Kyras body inch by inch examining all the fresh scars she'd acquired since the last they saw one another. She leans down and kisses a particularly jagged and angry red scar running up her left shoulder blade and over her shoulder, she slides her hand down Kyra's arm.

"What happened?" Lya asks as Kyra looks over her shoulder, Lya couldn't believe how much she had missed looking into those eyes. Even before she knew she was Dragonborn, those blue eyes had a flame to them that drew Lya in like a moth. They almost luminesced with an ethereal twilight of their own.

"A Draugrs axe." Kyra closes her eyes again and lets out a contented sigh as she snuggles up to her pillow, Lya kisses the scar again.

She feels Lyas lips work their way up her shoulder to her neck and then to her ear as Kyra starts to drift off to sleep. Lya tries to put her feelings at that very moment, of which there were many, into words . Concern for her well being, how happy she was to be here, how much she loved her, how much she'd rather Kyra didn't die...Lya shakes her head and kisses Kyra's neck again, as if any of it would make a difference. She pulls Kyras sleeping form closer to her, wrapped tight in her arms.

"You're safe here with me."