Chapter 14: House of Wolves
[Author's Note: Reader discretion is advised. Raven and Brelyna get attacked in the streets of Winhelm and this fic probably handles sensitive topics as bad as the original My Immortal.]
Instead of asking Onmind or D'Jango to come with me to my trip to Anslevnund, I asked Barleyna instead. She was a good friend to me and fcking Onion broke my heart, so I didn't want to see his stupid preppy face. Plus D'Jango was busy with his exparaments, but he give me some fire scrolls to test on sum zombies before I left. I thanked D'Jango, packed my bags, and left with Barleyna without saying goodbye to Onmind after.
Me and Brenana spent a lot of time studying conjugation during the trip and she thought me how to summon a frost artronarch like hers! I also know how to raise zombies now because I red a book about it with Barleyna's help. But I never summoned a zombie before. Barleyna said I should be careful tho because people in Skyrim are sacred of narcromances. Even tho it was technically legal in the Collage of Winterhold. They think it's dark magic or something.
We had to camp out during the night which was horrible because it was freezing, but Brenana let me borrow one of her enchanted rings of resist frost which made the whether more toleratable. I was only wearing one fur clock (made of black wolf pelts, which is also my spirit animal) over my black mage robes with the skull print so the cold was unbarable without Barleyna's magic julery. It was a sliver amethyst ring, which was purple. I wasn't wearing my black corset this time. Instead, I used sum black leader strips as a belt to make my mage robes more form fitting like a modern style dress. I also used a thinner black leader strips as a chocker around my neck.
After two day's worth of travel on foot, Barleyna and I arrived outside of Windhelm. We were gunna stay there for a night to find an inn and get sum food. It took us a long time because there were no carriages in Winterhold when we left, which was really annoying but that's ok. I got to spend the road trip bonding with Barleyna, my gf (not in that way!)
We entered the gates and some smelly middle aged men were staring at us. It was creepy and Barleyna looked uncomfortably. They locked at us judgemantally. It was cold and windy inside the city.
"By Talos, not another one of those damn gray-skins..." one of the smelly old men commented racistly while staring at Brenana.
"And a mage too, I don't like the looks of that one." One of the others replayed.
"That little Breton she's with seems off, too. Those garments... you think she might be a necromancer?" Said another drunken creep. I think he was talking about me because I was dressed all gothic, so I stuck my middle finger up at him.
Barleyna scowled at them quietly but didn't say anything and she just backed away and headed towards a small passage.
"What's a gray skin?" I whispered to her.
"It's an insult that some of these narrow minded Nords call us Dunmer. I guess I haven't really told you, but my kind aren't exactly welcome here in Windhelm." Barleyna answered quietly and bergrudgingly. I can tell she's upset. It made me mad too because she's my friend.
"WTF did you just call her?!" I shooted at the smelly old drunks.
"A filthy gray-skin. What about it, little girl?" He said rudely to me.
"Raven, don't. It's not worth it. Let's just go to the Gray Quarter before—" Brenana tugged on my robes gently while trying to steer me away from the old guys.
"You @ssh0les! FCUK YOU!!!" I yelled and stuck my middle finger up at them.
But then, one of the creeps grabbed me by the wrists violently and I screamed! I was so scared. I just realized he was bigger and stronger than me and that yelling at scary men might have been a bad idea. I wanted Onmind to come save me like he did when I was at the narcromancer cave, but I left him at Winterhold. I regretted it and started to cri
"Raven!" Brenana called out to me. She tried to call one of the guards, but they ignored her. Maybe because she was a Dark elf. She lifted her hands to cast a spell but hesitated because a guard was staring at her terrifyingly. I remembered Onmind saying that most Nords hated magic and was terrified of it!
I started kicking violently when the men tried to grapple me but one of them got me in a forearm lock. And then I saw one of the other men try to grab Barleyna! She shrieked and didn't hesitate to cast litening spell at him.
The man got socked because he was electrocuted and Barleyna ducked and got away from his grasp! Then she shocked the man who was grabbing me and I sneaked out of his grasp too! Then we each summoned our frost artronarchs, which scared them off. But then the guards came running after us instead of the creeps!
We ran away from the guards and the big hulking frost artronarchs followed us, shaking the ground with their giant steps.
"Stop right there!" One of the guards shooted.
He was catching up to us but my forst Artronarch punched the ground with it's giant icicle fist and the guard stagereded. And then me and Barleyna were able to reach the city gates. The artronarchs distracted the guards and was fighting them, so Brenana and I were able to slip past the gates. And then we ran into the woods in the mountains and away from the city. We were both so scared that I couldn't stop shaking and had an ardrenalen rush. And then I realized...
"OMFG Barleyna!" I said. "I think we're lost!"