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I put the bottle back into the chest. Maddy quickly shut the lid and locked it up.

'We'll chuck these over the cliff tomorrow. I don't want any drugs around here.' She said hastily. 'But for now…' she picked up a bottle of shein and looked hopefully up at us.

'Go for it.' I answered her unspoken question. She let out a small squeal of excitement and leapt up off the ground to the table. Vanhil hesitated for a moment, before reaching down and picking up a bottle of sujamma. He looked thoughtfully at it for a moment, then turned to me.

'What are you going to have?' he asked.

'You're going to have that whole bottle to yourself!' I cried incredulously.

'For once, I want it. Don't stop me from having it. Now what do you want?' he said firmly.

'Na, I don't really feel like anything. If I really do later, I might share some shein with Maddy.

'What?' she called out. She turned to me with a puzzled expression. 'I have never been so stressed out in my life. We broke the law, and ran from the guards! I'm sorry, but I've decided to get hammered tonight.' She turned around again to the table and started pouring the shein into a goblet.

'Alright then, I'll go without.' It was strange, but I didn't really feel like anything except some food and of course the skooma.

'Really?' asked Vanhil, curiously.

'Really.'

We sat down at the table after Vanhil and I had cooked some of the hound meat and scuttle over a newly built fire.

The food was nearly more than anything I could have wished for. As well as being almost starved to death, I also really felt like a nice, meaty meal. Maddy had been planting the corkbulb roots and seeds by the lake while Vanhil and I were cooking dinner. She said she had found a note buried in the strange dust.

Sprinkle over corkbulb roots to increase taste and speed of growing.

After a short conversation Maddy left to sprinkle the dust on top of where she had planted the corkbulb roots. In a couple of weeks they should have been ready to eat.

Maddy had now had quite a lot to drink, and she seemed quite tipsy. She had already started saying sort of stupid things and starting to laugh like hell to Vanhil's most crap jokes. He was alright at the moment, but he was starting to get more drunk. My stomach felt quite fine as to what it was eating, but my brain and taste buds kept on urging me to suddenly leap over to the chest and gulp down all the skooma.

As I started to finish my meal Vanhil and Maddy were really quite drunk. When things got too quiet, Maddy would start whispering a song that then got louder and louder until Vanhil finally picked up on it and started singing with her. After singing loudly for quite a while, they would then finish on an out-of-tune ending, throwing their arms out sideways. Twice while doing this I only just stopped Maddy from falling backwards off her chair. While they were enjoying their fantasies and sharing exciting moments of their life, (including how Maddy once almost hit on a guard, and Vanhil said that he had flown to Cyrodiil and back in a quarter of a second) I just sat in my chair, my elbows on the table with my hands clasped together and my mouth resting on them. I wasn't exactly bored, I just couldn't stop thinking about that skooma. Also, what was that second scent? It was obviously another drug. And it was the cause of me wanting more. If I had just smelt the skooma I wouldn't have wanted more. But that smell… What could make you attracted to something just by the smell? And then it hit me.

Shit. Telvanni Bug Musk.

Part of my brain was now telling me to go chuck out the skooma now, make sure I couldn't have any. But most of my brain was egging me on. Telling me to give in. Who could fight against Telvanni Bug Musk? Definitely not you.

And in the end, that was my decision.

I came beck to my senses as Maddy hopped off her chair and walked towards me, before grabbing onto my shoulder. I shook my head and looked up at her, just before she bent down and kissed me on the lips.

Okay, didn't see that one coming. But oh well. She was my girlfriend after all. But this kiss seemed to go on, and on, and on. We finally broke apart and she slumped her chin onto my shoulder.

'I love you…' she mumbled.

'Right,' I answered, pushing her off me and holding her up. 'Your completely wasted. Time for bed. C'mon, you're drunk.'

'No!' she cried back to me. 'You're drunk!'

But as soon as I lay her down on one of the bedrolls she curled up into a ball and allowed me to pull the blankets up over her before falling asleep straight away.

As I stood up I heard some snoring behind me. I turned around and saw that Vanhil had fallen asleep in his chair.

I lay on the bedroll, still in my clothes after I had pulled the slumbered Vanhil onto his. That chest stared back at me, wanting me to open it and take from it. It looked so welcoming, so happy. I lay there for a whole half an hour wondering what would happen if I really did take the skooma before I checked if Maddy and Vanhil were still asleep. Seeing that they were, I finally stood up and made my deadly decision.

I walked towards the chest full of skooma, and using the key on the ground, I opened it. I stared at the pink bottles of skooma hungrily before picking one up and holding it at the top, ready to throw the flask at the cave wall. Just as his arm started to move into position, I looked at the bottle one last time. That smell was so warm…

I opened the bottle and gulped it down, all in about five mouthfuls. It wasn't enough. I picked up two more and scoffed them down one after another. That, I decided, was enough. After closing the bottles again I placed them back in their old positions and closed the lid to the chest. Locking it, I realised what I had done. In one day, I had hit a couple of guards, the General/my best friend, and messed with an illegal drug. I walked over to the lake and looked at my reflection. I hadn't changed. It was same old me, adventurer Jolin. My Imperial reflection stared back at me. The same short black hair, same small beard around my mouth, same broad shoulders and strong build. Same dark green eyes. Same everything. A lot of people said I looked like Vanhil, but I only think we have the same type of build. He has long blondish hair and a longer type of face. His eyes are blue, and he has no beard. I don't know what they were on about.

Confident that I looked the same as before, I walked back to the bedroll, a little more calmly. As I lay back down, I looked once more at the skooma. It tasted so good…

Well that's it people! That was a kind of boring chapter but I had to get the addiction started. Hope you enjoyed it! PLEASE REVIEW!