More romance ahead... Sorry, I don't like it either particularly. Really short chapter ahead.
Impatience
Kod watches Mila leaving with a saddened heart. Mainly because he won't see her again for Divines know how long.
"Kodlak!"
"Svari?"
"I hear about you and Minette. Congratulations."
"Thank you. My heart is conflicted, Svari. Aye, I love Minette but Mila, that girl there, still holds her place in my heart."
"She always will Kodlak. You just need to focus on Minette. She loves you back."
"Svari, you are a wonderful person. Do not forget it." He says before hugging the older girl gratefully. Then he feels small, warm arms around his waist.
"Kod..."
"What do you want?"
"A nice shiny ring on my finger and a house with you in it."
"Not yet. I want my mother to know as soon as it happens. Besides, this is comfortable enough for now." She rests her head on his shoulder and Svari leaves to find Kayd. Then they begin to kiss deeply. The couple walks down the steps to a small hiding place at the bottom of a cliff where they remove their clothes and start to waste the night away with each other.
Meanwhile in Windhelm...
Sighing, I shake my head yet again.
"Ulfric for the last time I will not sleep with you! I do not give a skeever's backside what you feel because I have not finished grieving yet."
"Just one night alone, Dovahkiin." His last attempt to win me over using dragon language is a complete flop.
"Not since Hadvar died."
"This... Hadvar. He meant a lot to you. Have you not accepted anyone's affections since his death?"
"Nobody has shown them. I would not accept them anyway."
"Now that could not be true. You have looks to peak my interests and that is not something done easily." He says, his eyes looking deeply into my own. It looks like he's trying to remember the way I look for whatever reason.
"Compliments will achieve nothing here. Maybe if I set off now then my son will not worry when I turn up in the early hours of the morning." By this point I've had enough of his dry compliments and I simply walk out of the palace. I climb into the back of the carriage and pay to be taken to Solitude.
It is mid morning by the time I have returned and that is when I remember that Carlotta and Mila will have returned home by now. It is a shame that circumstances have lead to me not being able to say my farewells but for now I need to focus on delivering the news to Tullius.
"Traitor! Arrest her!" Tullius shouts as I enter. Guards rush towards me and grab each of my arms.
"Tullius, what is the meaning of this?" I growl, my voice hoarse.
"You have sided with the Stormcloaks!"
"I have done no such thing! I came to deliver the news that the Stormcloaks are no longer a threat and that we do not have any enemies in Windhelm."
"This letter sent from your leader says differently." He says, holding a letter out in front of me.
Dear General Tullius,
We will not surrender. We will not give in.
We have the Dragonborn on our side.
Surrender now or we will send her to destroy you.
Yours Faithfully,
Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak.
"LIES!" I shout, panicking. Tullis makes a few motions to the guards and they carry me out, kicking and screaming. "WULD NAH KEST!" I speed away from the guards, leaving them in agony. More guards instantly try to apprehend me but I kick them away. I leap off the top of the hill leading up to Castle Dour and spot Kodlak in the distance. Seeing my panic, his face distorts into a confused frown. Before I can get to him I'm shot in the shoulder by a paralysis poison tipped arrow.
"Mother!" He shouts, his face the very image of dread. I fall to the ground, incapable of moving. Guards pick me up and carry me away, two men carry each limb and one gags me, rendering me incapable of using my thu'um.
"Kodlak, stand back. This woman has committed treason." I shake my head furiously but one of them grabs my head to stop me. Before I know it I'm thrown into a cell, gag still in place. I pull it out and start to scream, enraged by the false accusations made against me.
"Ma'am please calm down."
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? YOU HAVE THROWN ME INTO THIS CELL FOR A CRIME I HAVE NOT COMMITTED!" I throw a bucket at the jail door and it breaks into smaller pieces. Then I sit down in the chair and run my hands through my hair. My leg bounces impatiently and I glare at the guard sat outside. I hear a door close quietly outside.
"Is the Dragonborn in here?"
"What do you want with her, boy?"
"She's my mother."
Damn it.