It was three days later from the night the creature had attacked my camp. I had dozed off in my saddle knowing that Sila would not go astray. I woke to find that I was still in my saddle riding along the deserted rode toward Talia. I looked up and saw a faint structure in the distance. Yes! I was nearly there! I leaned down and patted Sila, and then I whispered to her in elvish softly, "If you gallop as fast as you can I can get you in a nice warm stable with lots of yummy oats in it before nightfall." She slowed down then stopped catching her breath.
About five minutes later, Sila turned her head toward me and gave me a mischievous grin. I knew she was going to run as fast as her little legs could go so I gripped the reigns tightly. She turned her head back around, bent her knees a little, then sprang up into a gallop. I was startled at how fast she was going. She was probably (in your guy's measures) going about seventy mph. Now that's fast for a horse. I had no idea how much she wanted a warm bed and lots of oats, maybe it was the oats that got her to run.
Sila slowed down to a trot and trotted up to the gate. She stopped at the gate; I talked to the gatekeeper, and then I paid him 2 gold crowns so he would open the thirty-foot high gate. Sila and I trotted into the city of Talia.
I asked lots of people where an inn was. And finally I found a person that told me where an inn was, plus he was generous enough to show me the way.
I stopped at the inn and handed the reigns to a servant nearby. I told the servant to give Sila lots of oats, hay, and water, and make it so the stable would be as comfortable as possible. After giving those instructions to the servant, I walked into the inn, and then I strolled over to the innkeeper to negotiate the price of a room.
"I would like a single room, and a single stable please" I told the innkeeper.
"Ok, all of that will be fifteen gold crowns."
"Oh, all right, I'll just go to a different inn." I started walking away when the innkeeper called me back. "Yes?"
"Sorry I just realized my mistake" he said although I could tell he didn't make a mistake, "I thought you said two stables and two rooms, but didn't you say just one room and one stable?"
"Yes, I did."
"Ok then its really only five gold crowns."
"That's much better but I'll need the keys now" I smiled, and then gave him five gold crowns, and then I put my hand on his desk and opened it for the keys.
"Right" He frowned, took the money, then took out some keys and picked one out. "Your room number is three hundred ten."
I took the keys, then thanked him, picked up my luggage, and walked up three floors and found room number three hundred ten. I unlocked the door, and slowly pushed it open. I peeked inside to see if anyone was there. No one was there so I opened the door all the way and walked inside. I locked the door, and then I turned around and practically ran over to the bed awaiting my arrival. I flopped down onto the bed and shut my eyes.
I opened my eyes and sat up. I slipped down off the bed and sleepily walked over to my luggage. I opened up my clothes bag and took out my sleeping gown. I slipped off my traveling clothes, and slowly put on my sleeping gown. I yawned then walked over to my bed, flopped down onto it and pulled the covers onto me, I blew out the candle that was beside me, and then fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up and got out of bed and went back over to my luggage and looked inside it. There was nothing there! Still in my sleeping gown I ran to the door pulled it open and ran out. I practically flew down the steps and ran over to the desk where the innkeeper would be.
He wasn't there either; confused I walked over to the taproom door and peered inside. It was dark, but no one was inside. I craned my neck to see the dark corner to my right. A dark figure in a cloak was there. He, she, or it looked up at me and motioned for me to sit down. I could see its nose and it was a human nose so I cautiously walked over to the person and sat down. The person snapped his fingers and a bar-woman came over instantly and asked what we wanted. He said two ales. I told him no and just water. The bar-woman rolled her eyes and walked away.
We just sat there starring at each other until the bar-woman came over and brought our drinks. I took mine but didn't drink from it. The person snapped his fingers again and the bar-woman disappeared. I starred at him wondering how he did it. Then as quick as he snapped his finger he caught hold of both of my wrists and stepped on my feet and wouldn't release me. I struggled to get free but he wouldn't budge. Holding both of my wrists in one of his big hairy hands, and with his other hand he pulled out a piece of rope and tied it tightly around my wrists. I started to panic. Then he tied another rope around the rope on my wrists and then thread that rope through a hole and tied it to a bar under the table. To my horror he next drew out a small dagger and aimed it at my heart. Then he threw it! I closed my eyes ready for the dagger to pierce my chest but it never came.
I opened my eyes and to my surprise I was in my bed again. I then just realized that that was just a dream or I would be dead right now. I caught a whiff of a smell of bacon and fried eggs. I sat up, rubbed my eyes, and then looked around the room. "Where was that smell coming from?" I wondered. I looked at the small table beside my bed, and saw eggs and bacon. I jumped up out of my bed and hurriedly sat down at the table and started stuffing my face. "Man this stuff was good, was I going to have to pay for it? I'm not going to worry about money right now."
After I was finished I leaned back in my chair with a satisfied look slapped on my face. Then I remembered Sila, and she was still down in the stables. I got up out of my chair. I took off my sleeping gown and put on my tunic for I didn't want to wear my sleeping gown any longer.
I walked down the stairs and I could feel a cold feeling once again. I looked into the taproom and saw the black hooded figure once again; it was supposedly watching a group of people laughing drunkenly.
I backed away and went out to the stables. Sila too had a worried looked on her face. I walked up to her and told her in elvish to keep and eye out for the black-hooded figure. She nodded her head then looked at a bag of oats then back at me. I sighed then walked over to the bag of oats and picked it up. I brought it over to where Sila was standing and set the bag down. She immediately dipped her head and started eating ferociously.
I walked back to the inn and went back inside.
The whole place was totally quiet.
