The Sleeping Giant Inn looked like a great place for one to hide away secrets or maybe a place where one could hide from their troubles. It didn't matter to Terra which it was, but she did need to figure out what was going on there.

The carriage had dropped her off toward the front of the inn. She didn't feel like she needed to sneak or appear any different because whoever was here to meet with her was going to want to know the truth about her. She didn't think they would take her at her word, they would probably want her to jump through some hops like a trained animal. She had been doing that through all these other groups. Why would this group be any different?

When she walked into the Inn, everyone turned to glance at her, but that was about it. Good, she thought, no one seems to want any trouble. She walked over to the proprietress and stood at the bar.

The woman raised an eyebrow at me, but just simply asked what I needed.

"I'd like to rent the attic room," Terra responded quickly, she didn't want to drag it out longer than needed.

""Attic room, eh?" she eyed Terra suspiciously. "Well… we don't have an attic room, but you can have the one on the left. Make yourself at home." She got out from behind the counter and started to walk away from Terra, "So you're the Dragonborn I've been hearing so much about. I think you're looking for this." She holds up the horn for a moment before continuing, "We need to talk. Follow me."

Terra followed behind, she said nothing. She watched the woman before her carefully. This woman looked to be more than just an innkeeper. Her arms looked like they had carried a weapon for a long time and her face looked as if it had seen a very hard past.

She turned to look at me and then signaled me to close the door. "The Greybeards seem to think you're Dragonborn. I hope they are right," she said after Terra shut the door.

Terra turned and sighed, "You're the one who took the horn?"

"Surprised?" she chuckled, "I guess I'm getting pretty good at my harmless innkeeper act."

Terra shrugged at the comment, she could tell the woman had handled weapons, but she couldn't judge anything else honestly, "Sorry, I'm supposed to be meeting someone here."

The woman wrinkled her nose at Terra and scowled for a moment, "I hope you're just playing dumb. I'm the one who left the note in Ustengrav."

Terra was not excited about this prospect or the declaration she was making, "The Greybeards are right. I am the Dragonborn." She wasn't fond of saying this to new people or anyone who wanted to use her and the woman before her definitely wanted to use her.

"I hope so. But you'll forgive me if I don't assume that something's true just because the Greybreads say so. I just handed you the horn of Jurgen Windcaller. Does that make me Dragonborn too?"

"What's with all the cloak and dagger?" with all this going on Terra knew for sure now that this woman was hiding from something.

"You can't be too careful. Thalmor spies are everywhere," she looked at Terra as if she was dealing with a child who refused to learn.

"I was expecting someone... taller, " Terra was struggling to understand everything going on and to be honest everyone who had been dealing with her had appeared larger than her in many respects.

"Good. The whole point of being in hiding is to appear to be someone you're not," she smirked at the comment and seemed to take no offense.

"Here I am. What do you want?" Terra was feeling extremely frustrated with all this dancin around the issues.

"I didn't go to all this trouble on a whim. I needed to make sure it wasn't a Thalmor trap," the woman seemed to have a tinge of annoyance in her voice.

"What do you want with me?" Terra was not liking any of this. This woman was being careful and she could whole heartily understand that but for her to just walk around everything instead of just spitting it out made Terra's hair stand on end.

"I didn't go to all this trouble on a whim. I needed to make sure it wasn't a Thalmor trap." This woman had seen a lot but it appeared that this made her overly paranoid.

"You'd better have a good reason for dragging me here," Terra was thinking about how she left Farkas alone for the sake of this.

"It was the only way I could make sure it wasn't a Thalmor trap," she shrugged at Terra as she repeated herself again.

"I just came here for the horn," Terra sighed as she thought about the Greybeards and their stupid have to prove oneself quests.

"And now you have it. No harm done. I knew the Greybeards would send you for the horn if they thought you were Dragonborn. Taking it was the only way I could make sure it wasn't a Thalmor trap," Terra glowered at her third time saying that she was making sure this wasn't a trap.

Terra was struggling not to shout at this woman as she kept repeating and repeating the same thing over and over again. She hoped that she didn't repeat herself so much and if she did she hoped someone would tell her she sounded paranoid and crazy, "You'd better start explaining. Fast."

"I'll explain what I want when I want, got it? You'd already be dead if I didn't like the look of you when you walked in here. But I had to know if the rumours about you were true..." she was cocky as she spoke, but Terra took that with a grain of sand.

"I don't have time for this," Terra was unsure how she wanted to proceed honestly. Here was a woman before her that didn't introduce herself or explain anything other than she had to make sure this wasn't a trap.

"I shouldn't let you walk out of here, knowing what you know. But I guess even my paranoia had its limits. You know where to find me when you change your mind. Because you will. You have to," this woman knew a lot and the point that she was holding back everything was like she was trying to hold all the cards.

Terra went along with this farce, " Go on. I'm listening."

"I'm part of a group that's been looking for you... well, someone like you, for a very long time. If you really are Dragonborn, that is. Before I tell you any more, I need to make sure I can trust you," the woman stiffened up as she said the last part.

Terra growled at her trying to turn everything into her issue, "How do I know I can trust you?"

"If you don't trust me, you were a fool to walk in here in the first place," this woman had no clue of what Terra had done. She only trusted herself in the long wrong, but gave people the benefit of the doubt till they screwed it up for themselves, this woman didn't know Terra.

"Why did you take the horn from Ustengrav?" Terra started to dig for anything that would make her stay.

"I knew the Greybeards would send you there if they thought you were Dragonborn. They're nothing if not predictable. When you showed up here, I knew you were the one the Greybeards sent, and not some Thalmor plant," this Thalmor seemed to have struck a bad cord with this woman and while she didn't hid that, she did hide all other information of who she was.

"You said something about the Thalmor?" or I should have said you said Thalmor more times then you said what I was here for, Terra gritted her teeth.

"Yes. We're very old enemies. And if my suspicions are correct, they might have something to do with the dragons returning. But that isn't important right now. What is important is that you might be Dragonborn," the woman was now looking around the room as she explained that to Terra.

"Why are you looking for a Dragonborn?" Terra raised her brow at the woman now that she wasn't staring Terra in the eyes.

"We remember what most don't - that the Dragonborn is the ultimate dragonslayer. You're the only one that can kill a dragon permanently by devouring its soul. Can you do it? Can you devour a dragon's soul?" The woman leaned in closer to Terra as she questioned her. It was like the woman was expecting a certain answer.

"Yes, that's how I first learned I was Dragonborn," Terra rolled her eyes as she answered. It felt like this woman was just poking fun at her for a moment.

"Good. And you'll have a chance to prove it to me soon enough," The woman had a wicked grin cross her face as she responded to Terra's answer.

"I absorb some kind of power from dragons. That's all I can say," Terra felt like explaining that she only absorbed something, but that she wasn't sure honestly if it was the dragon's soul.

"This is no time to play the reluctant hero. You either are or aren't Dragonborn. But I'll see for myself soon enough," the woman's lip sneered for a moment as she seemed to think that Terra was playing coy. What the woman didn't know was that Terra was reluctant on all levels to be doing any of this, but when it came to show that she wasn't a liar she would burn the world if she needed to. This woman liked to walk on thin lines and she didn't know if Terra would pull her off one of the sides.