I ran as fast as I could, in efforts to stop their carriage before they took off. I continued to chase it until it went down a road south, then I
finally ran out of breath after sprinting furiously for about 3 minutes. I trembled to my knees in the freezing cold, winded. Powerlessly, I watched the carriage
get away. I screamed in anger, punching the ground. I sat there on my knees, gasping for breath, worrying about Hildir, and what was going to happen to her. While I did that, I heard a voice.
"Pitiful." The voice said. It was a light, female voice, and sounded elvish.
I looked around, to all of a sudden see a woman, on a chestnut horse. A dark elf in very unique guild armor Stood before me. I was baffled at how a horserider got so close to me and I didn't hear anything.
"Get up off the ground, Requisite. You look pathetic." The woman said.
I slowly get up, still catching my breath. "Who are you?" I asked the mysterious rider.
"Nocturnal sent me here to collect you." She said.
"Oh, so you're Karliah..." I said. "Well, I could really use your help right now, It's good that you happened by."
"I'm not helping you, Requisite." She replied.
I brought up a point. "Listen, If you can help me save my companion, we can take care of this business with Nocturnal sooner than later!" I explained.
She stood silently, pondering for a moment, then sighed. "Fine." She muttered.
"Great! Let's follow the tracks from the carriage wheels!" I said.
"Wait. I'm also here to remind you that you have new words to learn within the tome." Karliah said.
"Oh." I said and retrieved the tome from my bookholder and read it. Just like all the other times, I slowly understood all the words progessively. The entire book was not available to me, of course. I closed the book and looked back at Karliah, expectantly.
"You've just learned a new spell, called Fury; a very reliable illusion technique." Karliah said.
As she said that, I did feel an aura around me like before when Hildir taught me magic. I put my mind to it and channeled my magicka to my hand, like I did when I learned the charm spell. A new red energy surged through my hands and I casted it towards the ground. The spinning ball of energy collided with the ground, fading. Noticing how the spell did nothing, I looked at Karliah, confused.
Karliah elaborated, "Cast it on any target, and they will become enraged, attacking anything and everything within their sight."
"Interesting..." I Looked at my hand while channeling energies through it. "So you will help me catch them now, right?" I asked.
She reached her arm out me to help me get on her horse. "Get on. I better not be doing all the work."
I took her arm and she helped me sit on her horse. I noticed a very impressive, beautifully designed ebony longbow held by the woman herself. She must have been an unfathomably great archer, with such a unique bow.
"Hold on tight." She said. She whipped her horse and it began to ride at a very fast pace; Much faster than me on foot, of course. We had rode down the trail at a breakneck speed, catching up to the carriage within at least five minutes.
"There it is!" I yelled, pointing at it. "Karliah, can you shoot the wheels of the carriage?" I asked.
She equipped her bow and pulled out an arrow: the arrow had an extra item on its tip, I couldn't see what it was. We got within 30 feet of the moving carriage, within the silent night. After seconds of of focus and accuracy, She took her shot; Her first shot was a direct hit, causing the wheel to break and force the carriage to slide out of control and hit a tree.
I wouldnt have guessed a mere arrow could break a wheel, perhaps the attachment she put on the arrow was some explosive. I worried if Hildir was still safe after the collision.
As the carriage crashed, she stopped her horse and we both had got off the stallion.
"We'll sneak up on them from here." Karliah muttered and ducked.
I followed along and crouched.
We creeped up on them from there, becoming capable of hearing their words.
"How did the carriage go down?" One of the thugs said.
"It doesn't matter, just hurry up and replace the wheel with a spare!" Silvan ordered while getting off the carriage.
Apparently, They never noticed us given how close we were. I continued to prowl towards them while speaking to Karliah:"Do you see the one with the guild armor?" I asked her.
"What of him?" She said.
"He's a traitor to the guild. He's trying to get away to Cyrodiil." I explained.
"Bastard..." She murmured.
"Don't kill him though; He's mine." Said, sadistically.
I charged my magicka and casted my fury spell at an unsuspecting thug, trying to repair the wagon wheel. I fired the projectile, still out of vision luckily, and glared at him, wondering if the spell effected him. After moments of pause, He stood up, glowing with a red aura around him. He then screamed maniacally, pulled out a short sword he had sheathed, and started wildly swinging at every man in sight, killing two oblivious men.
The charmed victim was finally killed by an arrow, belonging to Silvan. "Why in oblivion did he do that?" He said, Baffled at his supposed comrade's actions.
Only two men remained. The fury spell made a great first impression for me. We sneaked up closer on Silvan and the carriage driver; I formulated a plan.
"Karliah, I'm not sure if I'm asking for too much, but can you pierce Silvan in the arm?" I asked.
She nods silently, and cautiously prepares her shot.
Her bow fires, Her arrow swiftly and gracefully flies, perforating Silvan's right arm, disarming and disabling him from combat.
Silvan fell down, paralyzed, not even realizing he had been shot until he lifted his head and glimpsed at his forearm.
The carriage driver run's toward Silvan, realizing they had been under attack all along. I rushed into the driver, tackling him and knocking him unconcious with my fist. All the targets were dealt with, So I ran to the carriage and looked at the large knapsack which had something moving inside. I used my dagger to cut the sack open. A hand errupted from the bag, tearing the fabric.
Hildir emerged from the bag blindfolded, and gave me a punch to the face, not realizing who she was hitting.
I hold her hands down. "Hildir, it's me!" I shouted, and took the blindfold off of her.
"...Ly'ro?" She said, squinting and blinking as she looked up to me.
I grabbed hold of her, picked her up from out of the bag and put her on her feet.
She stared at me, holding in her tears.
I looked back at her and smiled. "Are you well?" I asked, as if nothing happened.
She then looked to herself. "Ly'ro..." She cried as she spoke. "They said they were going to turn me in to the guards in Cyrodiil to collect a bounty from me..."
"You carry a bounty? hm..." I Patted her shoulder, gently. "Well, It's okay now, Hildir. They're gone now." I said, in a relieving form. She seemed more angry then sad. That gave me an idea. I Handed her my dagger and pointed at Silvan, still lying on the ground, his arm leaking spots of blood on the snow. "You do the honors, If you wish." I said, giving her judgment.
Hildir had stared at Silvan, lying pitifully on the ground, just like her first encounter with him. With moments of thought, and glaring, She handed me back my dagger."He's not worth it. Let him bleed out." She said.
Karliah approached, unsheathed her dagger and executed the unconsious carriage driver. She grabbed a piece of his shirt, cleaned the blood off of her dagger with it, then approached us. "Are we done here?" She asked, impatiently.
"Just about." I replied.
"Good. We need to get to the Shadow stone, near Riften." She explained.
"Alright. Hildir comes with me, mind you." I Said.
"It's unwise to bring your significant other, Requisite." Karliah said, warningly.
"She's not my woman, and why do you keep calling me that?" I asked, confused at her presumed name calling.
"Because that's what you are. A requisite." She crossed her arms.
"Requisite to what, exactly?"
"The death of the White Knight, of course. I will explain everything to you soon." Karliah said.
"Hey, look..." Hildir said, and pointed at Three distant figures running towards us.
The three figures were Renandra, Sharia and Morina; They must have tracked us down with the carriage tracks. Sharia looked furious. She ran directly into me and attempted to punch me in the face. I anticipated it, and grabbed her arm, stopping her swing.
"Sharia, unwind. I did what had to be done."
She pulled her arm from me."You could've been killed, you ignorant, mentally ill..." She balled up her fist in anger.
I stared at her with a confident smile, and put my hand on her shoulder. "I can take care of myself now, Sharia."
She looked to herself.
I gave her a small hug. "I understand you're still worried about me, But you just worry for yourself, Okay?"
She silently nodded.
"Children..." Karliah murmured to herself.
I turned to her. "What was that?" I said, slightly offended.
"Nothing." She said. "Anyway, can we go now, or do you have anyone else to caress?"
I gave her a slightly annoyed look. "No, We can leave now." I said to Karliah.
"Oh, you must be Karliah." Sharia said.
"Indeed. You're the requisite's brother, correct?" Karliah asked.
She raises a brow, confused.
"She's referring to me. I, am a... Requisite, apparently..." I said.
"Well, yes." Sharia said.
"You'll come with us, as well then." Karliah responded.
"To where?" She asked.
"The Shadow Stone. It's better you know the truth of your brother as well." Karliah said.
She developed an odd look when she heard Karliah mention "the truth". "...Okay." Sharia said.
Renandra and Morina got the mess of bodies "cleaned up" and retrieved all the stolen items Silvan had taken behind our back.
Karliah, Hildir, Sharia and I voyaged back to Riften to find the Shadow stone.
