Chapter 15: Thank You for the Venom
Barleyna and I spent another night in the wliderness, so it was cold again. Luckily, we didn't stay lost for a long time because Barleyna knew the clearvoyance spell, and she used it to find the nearest road. We followed Barleyna's glowing trail the next morning and found... the ruins of Arnselvnund! OMFG finally.
The rift wasn't as scary as Onmind said. Barleyna and I were lucky and didn't bump into any bears or DARGONS on the way there. Also it wasn't as cold as Winterhelm because it's
autumn all the time for some reason.
Barleyna and I went inside the ruins and found an excavation site with rocks everywhere and a campfire. Then I was shocked! There were dead bodies everywhere! Some were mummified and some were still fresh and covered in blood. They were scattered everywhere and the smell made me literally throw up. Barleyna comforted me. And then I noticed a lot of the dead bodies were dressed like me.
"By Azura, it looks like someone already got here before we did. Be careful, Raven. We don't know what we're dealing with." She said.
We each summoned our flame artronarchs before going deeper into the ruins. We were careful not to set off any tarps because Barleyna said the ruins could be full of them. Going down the passageways, I saw dead zombies everywhere. They smelled terrible. Luckily, nothing tried to attack us.
When we reached a dead end, I heard voices and Barleyna hushed me. We hid behind a rock and kept our artronarchs behind us.
"Have you tried snake, whale, hawk, snake?" It was the voice of a young man. He sounded exited and full of energy and it reminded me of Onion's voice, which made me melancholy.
"For the last time, Erik, We can't just try random combinations to see if it works! I was bedridden for three whole days last time I got hit by a poison arrow from one of those traps!" Another young male voice exasperatedly repleid. "There has to be a hint somewhere in this room... there always is."
"Why don't you try looking in this book we found? It worked last time with Yngol Barrow" the one named Erik suggested.
"Great, more riddles." His friend grumbled.
I peeked from behind the rock to look at their faces and OMFG. They were both handsom. Erik was tall and had long red hair that flowed down to his shoulders with a little braid on one side and wore heavy steal armor with swirly patterns and brown fur short sleeves on it. He had matching steal boots and gauntlets too. He had bright brown eyes that you can get lost in and a short beard which made him look like a manly Viking. He carried a big sword in his back.
Erik's friend was shorter than him, probably almost as short as me. He reminded me of Enthrir, but a little taller and less preppy. It was like he was a sexy gothic version of Enthrir. He had light caramel brown skin and small pointy ears. He had big eyes like an elf but they were hazel green like a deep forest. He had long wavy chesnut brown hair that fell below his shoulders and he had a braid on each side of his face kinda like Onmind did. He was wearing all black matching armor, the color of Enoby. It was shiny even tho it had specks of blood on it in some places. And he had a black enoby bow strapped to his back with a shiver full of black enoby arrows. He was wearing a black fur clock made of wolf fur kinda like mine.
"OMFG!" I swooned.
"Raven—" Branana shushed me.
"Who's there?" the Enoby clad hottie called out and aimed his enoby bow in our direction. Then my artronarch noticed and chucked at flaming all of fire at him! I was terrified! But he dodged. And then Erik unsheathed his big, long, steal greatsword. Then he stared at me!
"I think it's another necromancer, Errenir! We might have missed one of them!" Erik shooted at his friend.
"Ugh, seriously?" Erik's friend, who's name was Error grumbled. "I got this.." he sighed annoyedly.
And then he looked at me and shouted "YOL TOR SHUUL!" Like a dragon and OMFG he breathed fire!!!