short chapter this time
Something wasn't right. Well, something was much less right that it had been a short while ago. There had been something wrong ever since he'd come to ruins, but the
arrival of these "Falmer" didn't sit quite right with him. As far as he knew the only Mer (or even high order sentient being) that should be living in the Dwemer ruins were
the Dwemer themselves. He supposed that they might have been dwemer who were trapped under ground once the "Cold Ones" had frozen the outter walls in a block of ice, It would even be logical to
assume that after their mental shields softened from the years of being isolated from the rest of their kin, and that the cold ones had broken their minds and bent them to their will...
But something about that theory didn't sit well with him, Dwemer had hearing that was less developed than higher order elves such as Dumner or Altmer. Years of working with loud and heavy machinery
had made their sensitive ears more decorative. In fact, Dwemer typically "heard" using vibrations from the ground, making their actual hearing so poor that they were practically deaf.
If they were tortured and warped Dwemer, then a blast of high frequency sound from his sonic wouldn't have affected them.
Then there was Jane... The Doctor was aware that he was stuck in a very very important and DELICATE turning point in the history of the Nirn, and Jane had so many roles to play in it; All of which made it all the more important that he wrap this business with the
Elder scroll and the cold ones up as fast as possible. He could practically see the thousands of different alternate realities this was creating. It was giving him a headache.
He and Jane managed to pick their way through the village of unconcious "Falmer" without waking or killing any of them, and the Doctor locked the door to that section of the hall behind them.
"You do realize that if there's one village in here, there's probably more, and I'm pretty sure that your little sonic won't be enough to take all of them out."
He gave her a look that told her to shut up and sighed
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it but for right now, we need to focus on getting to the scroll." He said, secretly hoping that despite what his better judgement said she was wrong.
She studied him for a moment, then pulled a small dagger out of her satchel and gave it to him. He started to say something about how he wasn't a huge fan of weapons when
she stopped him.
"I don't care how much you detest the idea of killing things,if we're going to get this elder scroll, and get out in one peice, I need to be able to defend myself without having to worry about
making sure you don't get mauled or killed. Understand?" she said, giving him a very stern and serious look.
He nodded, but didn't make any promises.
Jane was very careful to keep any unecessary killing to a minimum. Whenever she saw a skeever or a spider, she would use her thu'um to keep them calm and idle until they were
gone, and some even followed them to aid them. She even used unrelenting force to stun Falmer when the came across them.. Unfortunately, stunning them didn't stop them for
long, it wasn't long before they had been surrounded. Jane fought hard, and the Dok-Tor defended himself well enough, at least at first. For whatever reason, he was starting to slow, and get paler as the battle went on.
Jane suddenly realized that the falmer had coated their daggers in some sort of venom, probably that of the spiders. Good lord she hated those giant spiders; the little normal sized ones were alright, even the ones that
were the size of your hand were decent as long as they were kept at arm's length, but the giant ones were a horribly dangerous nusiance. Jane heard some of them somwhere in the crowd, and shouted to them, hoping that
they might provide a enough of a distraction to provide an opening, but she was sorely disapointed, they barely even made a dent in the crowd. One of the falmer managed to get a knick on her face, and even now she could
feel the venom in her blood, slowing her down. She was getting desperate, and the pounding in the back of her head wasn't helping. She screamed, and fire came out of her mouth, incinerating several falmer. Suddenly the pounding in the back
of her head spread to the rest of her body, and she could feel her body start to stretch as she roared in pain