Narissa continues to run, everything blurring past as she sends up a quick prayer to Talos for those fighting in Whiterun. Tears stream down her face as she splashes through the river and up the hill. Nari stumbles and falls and in the moment her entire body burns of eternal fire. She bites her lip to stop herself from screaming. She looks up and around and notices a cave. She struggles to her feet and staggers toward the cave. She gets through the entrance and collapses. At once she hears a growl. She picks up her head slowly and notices a large bear and behind her is the reason for her growl. She had a cub. Nari raises her hand and creates a calming spell and the mama bear sits and looks at her. Narissa struggles to get up and takes off her bag and pulls out a few pieces of horker meat and walks a little closer and sets the pieces down and walks to the wall and slides down. Her vision starts to grow black around the edges, but she sees the bear move close and take the food before passing out completely.

Narissa's dreams were short of night terrors. She was swimming when suddenly she is jolted awake and looks around in alarm squinting in the dark and looks up and notices the mama bear has a small bucket and Nari is soaking wet. The cub walks around her and drops a small branch in front of her and goes back out of the cave. Nari picks up the branch and looks closely at it to find small berries on them. She smiles to herself and pulls her knees up to her chest and picks them off and starts to eat them. The cub walks back in with a few twigs and places them towards the back of the cave. Nari looks over at the pile and back the mama bear. She stands up shakily and walks closer to the pile and creates a small fire ball in her hand. Nari starts a small fire and sits down as the cub comes back with more branches. Nari smiles and whispers thank you to the bears and gets up slightly shaken to get her bag. She walks back and sits down taking out a small pan and a few salmon. She takes a few rocks and place them in the fire. She sets the pan on top and lets it heat up and places the fish on them with a few herbs. After a few minutes and a flip of the salmon, she takes it off the fire and adds more wood. She sets aside a fish for herself and takes the other two and slide them to the mother bear. The mother bear cocks her head at Nari and watches as she takes a bite. The mama bear looks the fish and picks on up setting it by the cub and watches the cub eat and then takes on for herself. Narissa watches the interaction with curiosity. She silently stifles a yawn and lays down next to the fire watching it. She notices the cub walking around the fire to her and stop in front of her. The cub turns in a circle and lays down next to Nari and watches the fire with her. Nari smiles and nods off to sleep.

The next morning, Nari wakes up but doesn't move. The cub was curled into her still sleeping and the mama bear was closer to her feet curled up. Nari shifts slightly pulling away from the cub slight and sits up. The mama bear wakes up and watches her. She picks her head up and shakes it slightly. Narissa almost swears she was telling her to get more rest. She knew she had to get to Windhelm today and soon. She stands up and must hang on to the wall to steady herself. She looks at her arm and notices it hasn't healed which means that the arrow she was hit with had poison. That makes her slightly wary and the trip to Windhelm a little more urgent. She puts her bag on her back and looks at the mama bear and cub who just woke up with a sad smile. She trusted them, and the mom had learned to trust her, but she had to go. She turns and starts walking out of the cave and hears rustling behind her. She turns and sees the bears following behind. She smiles and watches the cub pounce up to her. She leans over and pets the baby bear and picks him up.

"You are so cute, I forgot to tell you. We need to name you... hmm... what about Atarae?"

The cub grabs her hand in his paws and she smiles at him. She continues to walk with the mama in tow who keeps looking around her. Narissa smiles and points at the mama bear,

"Your name will be Ursa." Nari announces.

The mom makes a little noise and Nari takes that as an agreement. She starts down a hill and sees a tower looming. She knows it Veltheim Tower and knows that were bandits are. Sure, enough as she approaches, she is stopped by a bandit highwayman.

"It will cost money to cross. Hand it over and I'll let you pass."

"Nah. Thanks though." Nari says shaking her head.

The bandit pulls out a sword and Nari sets the cub down and takes out her dagger charging at the bandit. Another bandit joins the fight and the mother bear decides to attack that one. Arrows start flying from the top of the tower and the baby cub looks around and starts backing away. He takes off down the road, whining and calling out. Narissa notices and thinks it for the better. She dispatches the bandit and Ursa kills the other by sheer power. Nari goes to run into the tower and notices that her body seems to weigh a lot. Her limbs are slow to react, and her vision starts to go hazy. She pushes herself and staggers slightly. The poison must be one of a high level. One that courses quickly through her if she fights. Not a bad idea, she thinks to herself. Effective even.

She hears running and armor clanking, but she can't tell where its coming from. She tries to place it. If its behind her then, it's the imperials and she was as good as dead.

"NARISSA!"

She turns her head slightly at the familiar voice. Ralof! He was here! Nari smiles right before her vision goes black and she hits the ground. Ralof runs faster when he sees Narissa hit the ground. He skids to a stop and kneels and the stormcloaks around him surge their way to the tower to take out the last remaining bandits. Ralof picks up Nari carefully and turns noticing a large bear next to the cub that caught his attention. It was weird to see a cub running and seeming to yell for help only to circle and run back this way. Hes glad he decided to follow. A soldier runs back to his side.

"The bandits are dead. It looks like she was attacked prior to this. If that cub hadn't showed up when it did, we wouldn't have found her in time. What do we do sir?"

Ralof looks down and then over to the bears and then back at the soldier.

"She needs help. Take everyone out to whiterun and figure out why they haven't answered couriers. I need to rush her back to Windhelm," he looks around at the soldier who has the horse. "I'm going to need to borrow that."

The soldier dismounts and handles the reins as the other soldier takes Nari from Ralof. He mounts the horse and leans over taking Nari from the soldier and setting her across his lap. He nods at the soldiers who nod back at him and he turns. He stops and slides a glance and points in the direction of Windhelm. The bigger bear seems to understand and once Ralof takes off, she takes off with him with her cub in tow.

Ralof rushes back to Windhelm by nightfall and hops off his horse at a dead run up the bridge. He notices the bear is still running with him. The guards notice and ready weapons.

"No! Don't! Open the gate! She needs help!"

The guards scramble and open the gate quick enough and Ralof and the bears go running through the gates and through the streets up to the Palace of the Kings. He slams open the door to the Palace and race in to the main hall with the bears and past the tables to the Jarl. He bows slightly.

"Jarl Ulfric, she needs help!"

Oh! It's starting to pick a little bit more and will continue to get intense!

I hoped you enjoyed!