Just as Scorn told June, it only took a day to reach the ruins. June stood on a hill staring out at the giant ruins. There wasn't much left of it, she could a great stair way leading up to a word wall. June could see several Draugr roaming the ruin. 'Sera would hate this place..' June thought to herself as she watched them. She let out a sigh and began to walk down the hill.
Once she started walking a gust of wind came out of no where. It was so strong that it pushed her down and caused her to fall down the hill. Along with the wind came a ground shaking roar. June quickly sat up and looked up, just above her was a dragon. It flew right over her and landed in the ruins. "Oh great." She mumbled as she quickly got up off of the ground and ran straight for it.
When she got close to the ruin she saw that the Draugr were fighting the dragon and loosing badly. Of course they were no match for it, the dragon was grabbing them with its teeth and throwing them in the air, it was slamming them with its tail sending them flying. "FUS RO DAH!" June's thundering shout swept over the dragon and blew away the remaining Draugr.
The dragon roared in pain, it shook it off and than glared at June. June quickly drew her bow and began shooting arrows at it. Each arrow that hit stuck into its scaly skin but it seemed like it didn't even notice. The dragon opened it's mouth wide and shouted a wall of ice straight for June. June's eyes widened and she jumped out of the way just in time. The ice wall hit the trees behind her and once it did the trees broke in half.
June looked at them a bit surprised, this was no ordinary dragon. No, it was an Elder Dragon. "Shit!" June yelled as she had to dodge an ice blast from it. "YOL TOOR SHUL!" June shouted fire breath at it. The dragon roared again in pain as its body was quickly covered in fire. June drew out her sword and charged it, the dragon shook the fire off but before it could regain itself June jumped on top of its head grabbing onto one of its horns.
The dragon roared and shook its head furiously trying to get June off but she held on tight. "Ofan ko mortal! You fen dir!" The dragon yelled at June as it than let out a breath of ice as it roared. "Ah shut up." June threw her arm up in the air and than swung it down slamming the blade into the dragon's skull. The dragon roared in pain and than its entire body went limp with its head hitting ground causing June to fall off.
She laid on the ground for a moment catching her breath and letting her sore arm rest. It was just about to give out when she was on top of it. June slowly got up off the ground and watched the dragon's flesh burn away and its soul begin to lift into the air. June closes her eyes as she felt it begin to absorb into her but than, it suddenly stopped. Like a wall had moved right in front of it.
June opened her eyes and saw the soul being sucked away from her and into the sky. "Not this time Dragonborn!" She heard Miraak's taunting voice echo in her mind. June sneered at the sky, luckily she was able to gain some of the knowledge from the soul and hopefully it was enough to learn this new word she was suppose to get.
June examined the area a bit to make sure no more surprises were around. She saw lifeless Draugr lying everywhere and even a Troll's body. It must of been caught in the cross fire of the dragon. June stepped over the skull of the dragon and made her way up to the word wall. She had to walk up several steps to reach it but once she did she could hear the chanting of the word in her mind.
The word on the wall glowed blue as she approached it, the chanting became louder. She placed her hands on the wall just above the word and focused on it. 'Gol' The word whispered into her mind and what little she got from the dragon was enough to understand it. "Earth.." Is what the word meant and it was what she needed to free the people under Miraak's control. June searched the ruins a bit more and than left making her way to the shrine near the Skaal village that Scorn directed her to.
Seradia was sitting outside the Inn on the steps, she watched the Thalmor marching on the road and keeping guard of the house that the leader was staying in. The past two days she had been there and they haven't done anything. They just torment the citizens that live in this small village and scare the children. 'What are they planning?' She wondered as she brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them.
All of this was very unnerving and she hated not knowing anything. Seradia quickly straightened herself as she saw the leader leaving the house. She saw him speak a few words to his guards and than got on his horse and rode out of the village. Seradia quickly stood up and walked down the steps watching him get farther and farther. Maybe this was her chance to finally find out something. She looked over to the house and saw that the two guards were still there, she bit her lower lip as she started to try and think of what to do.
The young man named Erik walked past her and was heading into the Inn. "Hey!" She quickly stopped him. He looked at her raising an eyebrow. "Does your father do some kind of delivery to that Thalmor general?" Seradia pointed at the house. Erik looked up at it and than back at her. "I think so, he usually has someone do it every night." He answered her. "Has he yet tonight?" She asked quickly. "No I don't think so.." Erik looked at her confused.
Seradia smiled and quickly walked past him and into the Inn. She approached the counter. "Excuse me." She got the Inn keepers attention. "What can I do for you?" He asked with a smile. "I hear you deliver food to the house that the Thalmor general stays in. "I can do it for you tonight." Seradia spoke with a sweet smile. "Why?" He raised an eyebrow at her. "Well..You've been so busy since they arrived and I feel bad that you have little help. So I want to offer my help." She smiled again.
He examined her for a moment a bit curious but than just shrugged. "Alright, if you want to." He smiled and turned around getting the platter ready. Seradia felt relieved, for a moment she thought he wasn't going to buy it. Luckily, he didn't know that the elf was gone. The Inn keeper turned back around and handed Seradia the platter. She smiled and turned around leaving the Inn.
Seradia walked across the road and up to the house. "What is this? Jimar is not here." One of the guards furrowed his eyebrows down at her. 'Jimar is his name? Weird name..' Seradia quickly cleared her throat. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that. He might be back later, mine as well come back to a full platter of food." Seradia said with a shrug. The guard raised his eyebrow up at her and than he exchanged a glance with the other guard. "Very well, go on in." They stepped out of her way and opened the door for her. She gave them a sweet smile and walked inside.
Once the door shut behind her she hurried to a table and sat the platter down. She looked around at the house, it was small. It had a large main room and than a medium sized bedroom with a small wash room. She looked around the main room but there wasn't anything worthe looking at. She made her way to the bedroom and got excited when she saw a desk.
She quickly walked over to it and started going through the drawers. "There must be something here.." She whispered to herself. Most of the drawers were filled with blank papers and useless junk. She got to the last bottom drawer but it was locked. Seradia furrowed her eyebrows down at it and pulled harder but of course it didn't open. She let out a frustrated sigh as she looked around. 'Please let the key be here..' She searched baskets and even bowls but didn't find anything.
'Dammit the key must be with him..' She let out another frustrated sigh. She looked back at the drawer and stared at it thinking of a way to to open it. She walked into the main room and by the fire place was a small metal shovel. She quickly grabbed it and walked back to the desk. She wedged the shovel in the crease of the drawer and forced it open. It took a lot of her strength to do it but she was able to break it open. "Yes!" She dropped the shovel and quickly got on her knees going through the papers in the drawer.
Most of them were backgrounds of citizens in most of the cities, she even found one on June. Seradia furrowed her eyebrows down as she read it. 'They've been watching her?' She clenched her jaw as she read the rest of it. She quickly stuffed it into her satchel and began searching more. The rest were the same, she was about to give up till she found a letter that looked recently opened. Unlike the other wrinkled papers it was smooth and neatly placed.
Seradai grabbed it and once she touched it she felt chills run down her spine. She hadn't even opened it yet and she already got a bad feeling. She slowly opened it and began to read it.
"Update on your orders: Remain in Rorikstead for just a few more days and than you can take action just as we planned. Use what ever means necessary to rid Tameriel of that awful village. Just make sure it's nothing but ash by the time I return, than we will hit Whiterun and show them our true power. I will have soldiers sent to Whiterun soon, the Yarl will just think it's another search. Be ready. -E"
Seradia's heart beat increased and her hands started to shake. 'They're going to burn down Rorikstead and attack Whiterun!?' Seradia's throat tightened as she started to feel sick. 'I have to warn the Yarl of Whiterun!' She shoved the letter in her satchel and quickly got up. She ran out of the room and hurried out the door. She tried to calmly walk by the Thalmor guards but it was hard, sweat was running down her forehead and her heart felt like it was going to jump out of her chest any minute.
The whole way to the Inn she could feel their eyes on her, in fact at the moment she felt like they were all watching her. She walked into the Inn and hurried to her room. She packed her things and than quickly left the Inn without a word to anyone. Seradia looked around making sure it was clear, she casted an invisibility spell and escaped Rorikstead, escaped the Thalmore threat for now. Now she was trying to reach Whiterun as fast as she could and she wasn't going to stop for anything.