Chapter Two
It'd had been about three days after the Necromancers had moved into their new cave in the province of Skyrim and they had already finished un-packing. The only thing had to do was to build a shrine, a shrine of Mannimarco, The God of Worms. Everybody had to help out before doing anything with necromancy, the only thing they did, that was not building a shrine, was eat and sleep.
Loendes had been working more than she ever had and was getting exhausted, her brother on the other hand was up and running like a machine. He hardly slept, nobody ever saw him eat, and Loendes knew that their group leader, a Dunmer by the name of Noveni Othran, would notice his amazing progress and probably offer him a higher title than "trainer." Most of their members didn't respect Noveni because of the fact that she was a Dark Elf and they usually hated Necromancers. In fact, Necromancy was banned in Morrowind, but Loendes liked her; she didn't care what she was. Noveni was their group leader because of her killing of a woman named of Azura Dragon-Heart. She was a hardy Nord and was sent to Wellspring Cave, the Necromancer's old cave, to kill everybody there and to obtain their wood for a staff. Although she did kill quite a few of them, she didn't get past Noveni, who later found their old leader half dead. His last words were,
"You saved them… please, do the honor of taking my place… it's my final wish…"
then he dropped dead, leaving Noveni to all of the difficult work of taking his place. She moved all of the Necromancers to a different cave, a different province, to protect them from any furtherharm. Loendes's brother saved her from the woman, he heard about the news from a former member who, unfortunately, died by strike of sword. He was one of Ulundir's closest friends, and he survived long enough just to warn him about the so-called Champion of the Mages Guild. He knew about how Ulundir wanted to protect his younger sister. Ulundir took Loendes, and a few other members, to the secret area of the cave, a part accessible by pushing in a rock in a discreet location. The space was very crammed, but worth hiding in in very dangerous times. But alive and well, the ones who survived worked really hard to forget everything and move on. Building the shrine under the hole in rock revealing the sky was a good way to forget, so that was a main objective.
Loendes was out of breath and panting like a wild hound. She sat down for bit to catch her breath and sip on some water.
"Tired already?" Loendes looked up and saw her best friend, Arnand Bovkinna. He was a Breton and was about the same age as her. He had always had a huge crush on her but took it out by teasing and annoying her. All and all he was a good friend and cared a lot for her.
"Shutup, I'm just a girl, not a.. hardy man like you!"
"Nice comeback Loendes, very clever, how long did it take you to come up with that?" Arnand said sarcastically.
"Be quiet…" Lonedes replied, pouting.
"Awww don't be like that, you know I was only kidding!" Arnand sat down next to Loendes and swung his arm over her shoulder and made her smile. Loendes looked at Arnand and then saw her brother over his shoulder. He was staring disapprovingly at them then walked away to the shrine with some supplies. Ulundir never liked their relationship and always had suspicions about Arnand like he was going to make a move one day and Loendes would go with it. He was always warning her about him saying, "You should stay away from that man, Arnand. He sounds like trouble…" And Loendes would just roll her eyes and walk away.