Chapter 4: Arrival

Orion and Karliana stood outside the gates of Whiterun near the stable whose ownership was now in the hands of Jervar, Son of Skulvar Sable-Hilt. Skulvar grew too old to run the stables while Orion was Riften's Prison. The old man was always a stubborn nord and Orion had no clue how Jervar managed to convince his father to resigned. It was now six months later and were preparing supplies and their belongings for the long trip to Haafingar, which is where the capital of the providence stood whose name was Solitude. As they stood out the carriage that was now in possession of belongings and things, the harsh cold winds swept across the plains of Whiterun and ran chills through their skin, though this was mostly Orion being he was a Redguard and was never accustomed to the defeating weather patterns of Skyrim. This made it even worse when adding the fact that he was submitted to a prison cell almost half of his life now. Trying to conceal his ghostbumps and shakiness from the bitter cold climate, he kept his arms to his sides of himself but soon not long after, found himself holding his sides with miniscule shakiness. Karliana identified this extremely quickly and looked around to find something so that he would not shake as much. After awhile of surveying the area around her, she later found his snowy sabre cat pelt that he had used a coat and waltz over to it, getting a firm grasp of it and waltzing back over to Orion to give it to him

" Can I have this for the trip Orion? It's quite bitter, wouldn't you say?" said Karliana feigning obliviousness to his current body condition.

The look he gave her was almost enough to break her out of his false state when she swore that he had a facial expression of a child who lost their wooden sword and which soon switched to stoic but yet courageous stance as he said, " Sure Karli, If you want to utilize it, then it is fine by me. "

Karliana sighed very much after he spoke this and uttered, " If you're cold then take it… don't always try to act tough Ori.." voice trailing off in the distance into inaudible rambles. She threw the pelt right at him as she said this and walked away to receive the last of her things.

He sighed and proceeded to haul himself up to the passengers portion of the carriage and adjusting the pelt to fit him comfortably as he planted himself down onto the wooden sits that laid in the carriage. As he surveyed the area around him and took in his last sight of Whiterun he would see for a long, he thought to himself for awhile on menial stuff like what he ate along with the goodbyes he gave everyone the evening before today. He stayed in this trance for what seemed like some time before someone flicked his forehead and caused him to flinch and faced who just did this. It was none other than Karliana and said there after,

" Come we should get going now. It's going to be one damn long journey and the sooner we can leave, the sooner that we will make it to Solitude. Orion," She said as she cleared her throat and said afterwards, " I just want to let you know that whatever may happen while we do complete this mission for Elisif, we need to have each other's backs. You haven't done anything like this in a damn long time now and need to know if you are mentally ready."

He watched that with every breath spoke, a small puff of vapor withdrew itself from her lips. It was almost enticing to say the least and when hearing her voice go silent, he mustered up some words after not actually hearing what she just said.

" Yes Karliana, I realize you're concerned for me but I will be fine, I promise I will be careful."

His oceanic eyes peered into her's and was almost like Orion was looking into her soul. She reddened a little bit before speaking up and saying, " Well I hope so Ori because to be completely honest with you, I am slightly nervous now since this is the first, well, real mission I am to be sent out on by Elisif and with the way she looked at us, it seems like the utmost importance that we figure this out." She paused for a moment before proceeding with more, " Orion, I also know that you didn't mean to almost send me to Sovngarde. I know that you lost control because it had been decades since you have actually had an actual skirmish with someone and so the dragon inside you immediately gained control over your body."

His facial expression changed rapidly as she bought up what happened two weeks ago when he literally almost murdered her during what was supposed to be a friendly spar. He just so badly wanted to say something to her like he was sorry but knew that would honestly just make her mad so he decided to keep his voice silent this time.

They signalled to the driver that they were ready and within an instant they were off towards Solitude.

While on the road to Solitude, they had encountered a sabre cat who had tried to take on the three but had horribly lost to the combined powers of Karliana and Orion. By this point they had already pasted one day into travel and were presently nearing the end of the Reach border that lead into Haafingar borders. They decided to settle down for the night before taking one last stride before finally making it to the capital.

They started to set up camp in a clearing east a little ways from the pathway. In the campsite laid three separate tents for the traveller's and one being, of course, their carriage driver and gathered two huge logs to set next to the fireplace that they utilized for sitting to sit during the night. They talked about menial and common stuff and within a hour or so, they piled into their tents and drifted off to sleep. The moon was right above them when Orion awoke to hear shuffling within the bushes that laid eastern to them and next to Karliana's tent. He slowly started to arise as to not startle whatever was out there and deliberately started to make his way out of his tent and into the bitter cold skyrim night and towards her tent in a crouch like position.

When he finally made his way towards her tent, the unknown creature within the bushes bolted away from them and disappeared into the darkness of the night. He found her quivering erratically and when she realized it was Orion she sprung up into his chest as she hugged him tightly with her large chest pressed up against him. He held her whilst also proceeding to look at her and noticed that she was bare of any clothes or undergarments. This made Orion's stand 9 inches tall, in which bulged under his undergarments but then gained a completely red embarrassed look on his face but soon after shaking it off when realizing again that Karliana was terrified out of her mind. They embraced for a little while longer before he let go of her and got in a position to face her.

He whispered, " Karliana, what the in the eight divines is going on!"

Still shaking erratically, she mumbled, " I don't know"

"What?"

" I DON'T KNOW," she said in a hushed voice then following after, " C...c..can you stay with me" face looking tomato red with embarrassment then finding the courage to say the next words, " for the night.."

Orion immediately could tell that she was being dead serious and shook his head slightly before completely welcoming himself into her tent.

Just like ol' times eh Orion?

He thought

They piled into the rather large bedroll of Karliana with Karliana's huge soft chest squishing up against his and legs intertwined with each other and blanket covering them up as they finally drifted off into a restful slumber.

When they woke up, they started to pack up their tents and made their ways towards Solitude. After the awhile, they saw the huge stone walls of the capital and the Blue Palace standing proud in the distance

The Carriage driver then announced:

Welcome to Solitude, Capital of Skyrim