"Kyra! Stop!" Kyra throws open the door leading back into the street, she whirls on her heel.

"I have to go to work." She lies as Cindiri shuts the door behind her waving off an approaching guard.

"As if Glover cares whether you're late. You need to start explaining yourself." Kyra looks around and folds her arms across her chest taking a large step forward, closer to Cindiri.

"I was the Dragonborn. Hear the past tense? Now I'm just me. Hello, nice to meet you I'm Kyra, I have a wife of six years and a little girl that I adore!" Kyra ignores the stares of the passersby as she raises her voice to the Council member.

"I don't spend my days killing monsters in old tombs and fighting dragons!" Kyra exhales and looks at Cindiri, lowering her voice to a more respectful tone.

"I've. Moved. On. You should too." She turns on her heel again and storms off, her dress gently blowing in the breeze.

Kyra doesn't look at Glover as she stomps into his forge and picks up her apron from the hook. She picks up a mallet and the nearest hot piece of metal from the Forge and slaps it on the anvil in a shower of sparks as she mutters to herself. Her loose bangs fall across her face as she strikes the hot metal.

Her muttering and cursing intensifies in sync with her hammer strikes as she flips the metal and is soon banging repeatedly on the metal until Glover grabs her hands and she looks up at him panting from exertion.

"Give me those. Is something wrong?" Kyra blows the strands of hair from her face looking up at him and shakes her head.

"No."

"Clearly. That's why you can't be trusted with the tools." He drops her hammer onto the workbench.

"Glover, you like me just the way I am right?"

"Of course, why?"

"So if I told you that a long time ago before we'd even met I was something or even someone else entirely..?" Glover looks thoughtful for a moment before he shrugs.

"Well no ones perfect right? I wouldn't care, we all have our pasts." Kyra smiles.

"Thanks."

"You sure everything's all right?"

"Yeah, yeah. Seriously. And give me back my hammer." Kyra takes the hammer, turns back to the anvil and pulls another piece of metal from the forge.

Kyra inserts her key and opens the door to her home. The smell of dinner was already filling the halls. She drops her gloves on the table by the door and locks up behind herself.

She walks around the staircase leading down into the rest of the house and peeks over the railing for any signs of life. Finding none, she circles around to the pot by the fire and leans over opening it.

"No sampling before dinner." Kyra looks up as Selena trots up the stairs onto the landing, wearing nothing but a long shirt. Selena comes up and hugs her before sliding her hands over Kyra's hips pulling her into a soft kiss.

"Mmm, only if I get to sample you instead." Kyra pecks her wife's lips again.

"I missed you, thought you said you were coming straight home." Kyra rests her forehead against Selena's as their fingers interlace.

"I know I just-it's been a long day." Selena looks into Kyra's eyes stroking her cheek.

"Aww, poor thing. I know how to make you feel better." Selena leans in and kisses Kyra softly.

Kyra resists for a moment before whimpering softly and giving in. Their tongues meet briefly before they slowly pull apart. Selena looks into Kyra's eyes for a moment before she kisses her forehead, wiping the tear sliding down Kyra's cheek.

"What happened out there, my love?"

"Fate came knocking. Going to read." Kyra breaks their embrace and walks around the stairwell wiping her eyes as she disappears down the stairs.

It takes Selena a while to get Sofie to bed, she enters their bedroom closing the door quietly behind her. Kyra was already asleep, on her side facing away from her, the blanket pulled up almost over her head.

Selena crawls into bed with her and rests looking up at the ceiling. After a few moments Kyra rolls over and slides into Selena's arms, moving closer against her as Selena plays with Kyra's hair.

"What's going on Kyra?"

"I don't know, Cindiri has some crazy guy screaming about the Dragonborn."

"There's a name I haven't heard in a long time."

"Yeah, he flipped out when he saw me."

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I exploded on her and stormed off, I'm going to have to apologize in the morning. Just really spooked me."

"I would be too. Come here." Selena leans up pulling Kyra's lips to her as she slides onto Kyra's lap, Kyra laughing as their lips meet again, rolling Selena under her and sliding up her body.

Kyra rolls over in bed and her arm falls into the empty place where Selena usually was, that extra moment of her arm falling through the air and hitting nothing makes her eyes snap open.

"Baby?" Kyra mumbles sleepily, when she gets no reply she sits up rubbing her eyes, looking around their bedroom.

"Selena?" She cocks her head at the open bedroom door and slides out of bed pulling on a shirt carelessly dropped on the floor. She folds her arms across her chest as she shuffles barefoot out of the bedroom, glancing at her daughters bedroom door which was still shut.

She pads up the stairs and examines the front door, unlocked. She pulls it open and pokes her head out into the cold night air. Someone grabs her hand and pulls her the rest of the way out, closing the door behind her.

"Hey-" Selena puts a finger to her lips as she points.

In front of their house was a large group of the towns people all walking as if in a trance, towards the Earth Stone just outside of the town. The stone glowed in the moonlight as people they knew quite well walked by them without acknowledging them. Kyra breaks away from Selena and walks down to the path.

"Glover? Glover it's me, where are you going?" Glover doesn't stop his slow shambling along with the group as they march towards the Earth stone.

"It is here, His shrine is here." They all say in unison.

Glover is pushed passed her along with the rest of the townsfolk, and Kyra is left standing looking puzzled.

"Kyra!" A Dumner in bonemold armor separates himself from the group walking up the path towards her house. Kyra walks a couple of steps down the path to meet him cursing when she steps on something sharp.

"Neloth. What is going on?"

"I don't know, but you seem to be unaffected."

"Yeah, Selena too."

"Neloth. It's like a campfire tale out here." Selena walks up to the wizard brushing her hair from her face as it whips in the gentle wind.

"Odd, yet intriguing, I've questioned several others who were unaffected. Most said they were rousted from sleep by slamming doors or beds without spouses, and as far as I can tell the children remain unaffected as well." Kyra grabs Selena's arm as she turns towards her.

"Did you check on Sofie?"

"She's fast asleep." Kyra blows the air from her lungs as she looks at the people walking by.

"Well I think the best we can do is wait this out and question them when they return to their senses." Neloth folds his arms across his barrel chest and rubs his chin thoughtfully. Kyra nods in agreement as she looks at the glowing stone, thinking of the crazed mans words to her.

"You can wait inside with us, Neloth." Kyra turns and pushes open the door again.

"That's very kind of you."

'I'll um-I'll make some tea." Selena walks past her with Neloth in tow and heads inside.

Kyra takes one last look at the townspeople before bolting the door behind her.