p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"17th of Last Seed, 4E 197/p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"In the time since I last picked up a quill and put it to paper, we have managed to successfully start a small garden growing out front. Illedia sometimes helps harvest potatoes, but I only let her help out for a few minutes or so before I send her to rest. Arlian, however, has been most helpful in the garden. While he can't lift heavier harvests, he can carry small sacks of potatoes into the house and leaves them by the cooking pot./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"In my spare time, I've taken up a bit of alchemy. Mere dabbling, you see. But it is something I enjoy immensely. When I go out to the forest or walk to Falkreath for supplies, I gather flowers, mushrooms, and various other plants I find and mix them together. Obviously, I have a lot to learn, but I've managed a few concoctions. Unfortunately, Arlian is a curious boy, and I must keep the mixtures in stoppered bottles on the highest shelf in the cabin, out of his reach. Some of the hens' eggs have hatched into chicks, and the rest have helped to keep the three of us fed./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Just yesterday, Illedia became paranoid that she had lost the baby. Now, this isn't out of the ordinary. She's worried about it a lot the past few months or so, but this time, she looked ready to cry. I talked to her, tried to keep her calm. I promised her the baby would be fine. I even listened to her stomach to reassure her, and sure enough, I felt the child move./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"However, Illedia's nerves were still…shall we say, jangled. She asked me to go to Falkreath and purchase a book or two for herself and Arlian. Of course, I wouldn't turn down my dear friend's request, so I headed to Falkreath and made my purchases. While carrying the books home, I noticed dark storm clouds looming over the horizon. In fact, I had made it home just as it began raining./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Illedia and I talked about the rain and the good it would do for the crops, but a moment later, I noticed she got rather quiet, staring out the window at something. She stepped outside, and just as I got up to urge her back inside, a bulky Nord fellow and a Cathay Khajiit woman entered the house with her. They were both shivering intensely and absolutely soaked by the downpour./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"The Nord fellow introduced himself as Joruth, and the Khajiit as Zeneza. The two were both hunting game in Skyrim when the storm took them by surprise. The pair immediately apologized for imposing, but Illedia and I did our best to reassure them. We promised them they could stay with us until the storm cleared and they could get back to their families in Bruma./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Joruth immediately took a shine to Arlian, as he has a son in Bruma who is only a bit older. He even asked Arlian to help him cook some of the game he caught for dinner. Dare I say, it was the best venison chop I'd had in ages. I regretted having only two beds in the cabin, as the two had to sleep in chairs at the table./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"When I woke up this morning, Zeneza was at the table mixing ingredients together with a mortar and pestle. I could not believe my eye. The only other alchemist I'd met was Zaria over at Grave Concoctions. Seeing her at the table mixing some kind of potion, I was too curious not to ask Zeneza where she learned alchemy. She had apparently learned it from her wife when they first met, and offered to teach me some of what she knew. She gave me a few pointers about what ingredients would mix well and what wouldn't, and how to properly sample them without harming myself./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Zeneza recommended I pick up the Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim next time I find myself at the market. In addition, she gave me a potion, some kind of healing potion or painkiller, that she says will help Illedia with her birth, as it helped Joruth's wife with all three of hers./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"The rain outside had lessened significantly. Joruth and Zeneza gave us a bit more of the game they had hunted before they left. I'll need to stop by Falkreath and pick up some more salt to store our food. As for Zeneza and Joruth, I hope they make it back to Bruma and their families safely.u/uspan style="text-decoration: line-through;"/span/p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"In the time since I last picked up a quill and put it to paper, we have managed to successfully start a small garden growing out front. Illedia sometimes helps harvest potatoes, but I only let her help out for a few minutes or so before I send her to rest. Arlian, however, has been most helpful in the garden. While he can't lift heavier harvests, he can carry small sacks of potatoes into the house and leaves them by the cooking pot./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"In my spare time, I've taken up a bit of alchemy. Mere dabbling, you see. But it is something I enjoy immensely. When I go out to the forest or walk to Falkreath for supplies, I gather flowers, mushrooms, and various other plants I find and mix them together. Obviously, I have a lot to learn, but I've managed a few concoctions. Unfortunately, Arlian is a curious boy, and I must keep the mixtures in stoppered bottles on the highest shelf in the cabin, out of his reach. Some of the hens' eggs have hatched into chicks, and the rest have helped to keep the three of us fed./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Just yesterday, Illedia became paranoid that she had lost the baby. Now, this isn't out of the ordinary. She's worried about it a lot the past few months or so, but this time, she looked ready to cry. I talked to her, tried to keep her calm. I promised her the baby would be fine. I even listened to her stomach to reassure her, and sure enough, I felt the child move./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"However, Illedia's nerves were still…shall we say, jangled. She asked me to go to Falkreath and purchase a book or two for herself and Arlian. Of course, I wouldn't turn down my dear friend's request, so I headed to Falkreath and made my purchases. While carrying the books home, I noticed dark storm clouds looming over the horizon. In fact, I had made it home just as it began raining./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Illedia and I talked about the rain and the good it would do for the crops, but a moment later, I noticed she got rather quiet, staring out the window at something. She stepped outside, and just as I got up to urge her back inside, a bulky Nord fellow and a Cathay Khajiit woman entered the house with her. They were both shivering intensely and absolutely soaked by the downpour./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"The Nord fellow introduced himself as Joruth, and the Khajiit as Zeneza. The two were both hunting game in Skyrim when the storm took them by surprise. The pair immediately apologized for imposing, but Illedia and I did our best to reassure them. We promised them they could stay with us until the storm cleared and they could get back to their families in Bruma./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Joruth immediately took a shine to Arlian, as he has a son in Bruma who is only a bit older. He even asked Arlian to help him cook some of the game he caught for dinner. Dare I say, it was the best venison chop I'd had in ages. I regretted having only two beds in the cabin, as the two had to sleep in chairs at the table./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"When I woke up this morning, Zeneza was at the table mixing ingredients together with a mortar and pestle. I could not believe my eye. The only other alchemist I'd met was Zaria over at Grave Concoctions. Seeing her at the table mixing some kind of potion, I was too curious not to ask Zeneza where she learned alchemy. She had apparently learned it from her wife when they first met, and offered to teach me some of what she knew. She gave me a few pointers about what ingredients would mix well and what wouldn't, and how to properly sample them without harming myself./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"Zeneza recommended I pick up the Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim next time I find myself at the market. In addition, she gave me a potion, some kind of healing potion or painkiller, that she says will help Illedia with her birth, as it helped Joruth's wife with all three of hers./p
p style="border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 1.28em auto 1.28em auto; border: 0px none currentColor;"The rain outside had lessened significantly. Joruth and Zeneza gave us a bit more of the game they had hunted before they left. I'll need to stop by Falkreath and pick up some more salt to store our food. As for Zeneza and Joruth, I hope they make it back to Bruma and their families safely.u/uspan style="text-decoration: line-through;"/span/p