A Skyrim fanfiction following the life and times of Aventus Aretino, a young boy who loses his mother, and his salvation by the Dark Brotherhood. Set in the same continuity as and acts as a companion story to heiwako's "Darkness Rises When Silence Dies" and "For the Future of Skyrim," and used with permission. Skyrim is copyright Bethesda. Please review if you like the story!

Before Champions and Warriors, they were but children - children with lessons to learn and mistakes to make. But no matter the challenge, no matter the danger, their most pivotal moments were faced as family - as siblings who grew up fighting side by side. The eldest, a jester. The youngest, an underdog. And in the middle of it all is the child who only wants peace. /MageGarrett

There was something bothersome about the way she was acting…It was unnerving. She rarely spoke, her smiles just as rare; far smaller than they ever were. It was so very unlike her…And so very like me. Natsume x Mikan. R&R Please.