Ri'Akari found out pretty quickly that taking care of me while I slept was a lot easier than traveling with me. This probably had to do with the fact I was unable to move more than two feet away from the mouth of our suddenly cozy looking save. We were knee deep in snow, which meant we were up North. Lots of deep snow means Frost Trolls. I didn't want to meet a normal Troll, let alone a Frost Troll. They were big, ugly, and mean looking on my T.V screen and the thought of actually coming face-to-face with one made me want to vomit. When she finally got impatient and asked what the hold up was, I stated my fear. After a few moments of staring at me blankly she burst out in a fit of laughter.

"Laugh at me all you want. I don't want to be up against one of those things. I'll piss myself in your pretty armor, it'll freeze, I'll smell... Don't laugh harder, damnit!" She did, anyways, practically clutching her sides while she laughed her furry hide off at me. I crossed my arms over my chest and waited with a glare plastered on my face. It took a minute but she did eventually gain her composure... Eventually.

"By Talos, you can fire an arrow a dragon but a little Frost Troll scares you. I don't know who you are Kate, but you amaze me." At this point I'm downright pouting. She didn't have to be so mean about it...

"You don't have to make fun of me, you know."

"Aww, come on now, don't pout little milk drinker. We'll take the easy way and head for Solitude instead, alright?"

"Don't call me a milk drink-" I had started to shout at her but was cut off when both her arms wrapped around murmured something under breath. My eyes went wide as everything blurred and spun around me. It felt like a very long time before the world went still again, but I was too dissoriented to notice right away. As soon her arms left me, I fell to my knees and threw up right in front of me. There was a wooshing sound in my ears which I recognized as me hyperventaling. I think she was trying to talk to me, saying something like calm down or just keep breathing. As my breathing evened out and the sharp nausea became bearable, I noticed how badly my eyes were burning as if I hadn't bothered to blink in a long time. I did so rapidly and it helped, if only a little.

"I take it that was a first for you. I should have told you to close your eyes, at least. It makes the transition a little easier to take. You'll get used to it the more you do it." I grunted in response and tried to get to my feet. She hauled me up and reached for the handle of the door that I didn't know was in front of us, the key already in it's place.

"We went to... Solitude?"

"Yes, we are outside my home. Or we could venture inside, if you like", she teased. I rolled my eyes a bit and forced my jello legs forward into the open door.

AUTHORS NOTE: I'm new to writing Fanfics and haven't actually been writing anything in several years. Until I get used to it again my chapters will be fairly short but I will hopefully start posting longer ones.

Thank you for your patience.