Chapter 17- Slayer Scrolls
Chapter 14- Chrissy
Day 11 morning- Off we go
Breeze Home White Run
The persistent banging of wood against wood forced Chrissy awake and not to her liking.
"Doesn't that woman ever give it a rest?" Chrissy mutters while thinking it was the blacksmith making the noise. Chrissy covers her head with the pillow, but she finds it does nothing to block the noise, in fact it seems to get louder. Chrissy gives up and sits up in her bed then begrudgingly swings her legs over the edge of the bed. She finds she is in her pants and tunic covered by her cloak. She starts to put her boots on when she hears more banging followed but a scream. Chrissy realizes that the scream had come from Lydia's room. Chrissy grabs up her knife from under her pillow and runs for Lydia's. Chrissy bursts into Lydia's room to kill who ever was hurting her housecarl.
Though the sight that greeted her was one she wished she hadn't seen for there was the very naked Thadmor on top of an also very naked Lydia. Thadmor has one of Lydia bear plump breasts in his mouth, and he was sucking with intense glee. Chrissy saw that Lydia was grabbing his very tone bare ass as she was trying to get him to move up into her. Both seem to be pleasing each other.
"Ooopppsss. Sorry… I heard. Nevermind." Chrissy says as she quickly covers her eyes and backs out of the room and closes the door.
"You could join us if you want. I am sure Thadmor wont' mind." Lydia giggles at the red-faced girl.
"I won't mind at all." Thadmor smiles broadly down at Lydia as he pushes forward into her causing her to gasp in pleasure.
"Nope I am good." Chrissy calls back as she literally runs to her room slamming the door quickly. Once safely in her room Chrissy goes back to getting ready to leave for their journey. She finds her backpack and weapons at the foot of her bed. It didn't take her long to finish getting ready and head downstairs all the while she could hear Thadmor's body smacking and pounding into Lydia like there was no tomorrow while Lydia loudly screaming. "Harder… Oh by the Divines! Yes! Don't stop. Yess!"
As Chrissy is passing by Lydia's room on her way down the stairs, she thinks to herself "That woman is just doing that to annoy me."
When she gets to the bottom of the stairs, she quickly uses the privy then heads for the kitchen area to get some food when she notices a door she hadn't remembered going in before, so she opens it to check it out. She finds that it was a pretty good size room with a couple of small beds. Though it had been cleaned it looked like it had been mostly used for storage. Chrissy shrugs it off and goes back to the kitchen and gets some bread, meat, and cheese to make a sandwich. Not wanting to listen anymore to the two upstairs Chrissy takes her sandwich and heads for the front door.
"I am going shopping. Do you want anything?" Chrissy calls out from the front door.
"Well, if you are going to the bath house you could pick up some special items for me as I really could use them right now." Lydia gasps out while Chrissy could clearly hear Thadmor grunting and the bed smacking against the wall.
"If it's what I think it is you can go get it yourself." Chrissy snaps back as she slams the door on a laughing couple. "That woman is going to drive me crazy."
Outside Chrissy heads goes to the blacksmith and finds her outside in the middle of working a piece and decides not to bother her so she heads into the shop to see what they had and what she could sell off. Chrissy is not the only one to leave the house at time as a small being climbs out a window in the back room.
Inside Battle Maiden's
"Welcome to Battle Maidens. Looking to defend yourself you have come to the right place." A large man behind a long wooden counter says.
"Hi. I am Chrissy. I have a few things from law of Bounty I would like to sell." Chrissy says as she drops her bag.
"I am Ulfberth War Bear. Ahh, yes law of bounty what do you have?"
Chrissy sold off a larger piece of armor and a couple of swords.
"Hey, I was wondering is there a lock smith in town?"
"We sell locks."
"Who installs?"
"Most of the time it's the owner."
"I don't know how. Can I pay you to install one if I buy?"
"It will be 25 for the lock and 10 to install."
"Can you also make copies of keys?
"That's easy. 2 gold for each extra copy."
"Okay here is a second key I would like a copy of. Along with two copies of the key for the new lock please."
"I can have those keys done this afternoon."
"Great here." Chrissy says as she hands over the gold. "When can you install the new lock?"
"Later tonight."
"I don't know if I'll be there tonight, but I'll drop the key off before I leave, and you can hold onto the new ones until I come back or send someone. Thank you." Chrissy says than leaves.
When Chrissy leaves, she notices a sign across the path that read "Drunken Hunter". Chrissy figured that it was a tavern and that she could leave a message for Borazon and Samuel there. Chrissy goes in and is greeted quite cheerfully by a very short man at the bar.
Drunken Hunter
"Welcome stranger to the Drunken Hunter what can I get for you?"
"Hi I am Chrissy. I was wondering if you had any hot Javaffa beans juice?" Chrissy asks as she approaches the bar.
"I am Markon. I haven't even heard of that. I have some warm ciders if you are interested." Markon says as he walks over to her.
"What kind?"
"Some sour apple and regular."
"I'll have some regular hot apple cider."
"That'll be 2 gold." Markon states as he places a large wood mug down in front of her.
"Thanks." Chrissy says as she pays then starts to drink it. "Hey, I was wondering if I could leave a message for a friend here with you. I can pay."
"How much."
"I can give you 10 gold to hold it and not read it."
"Okay."
"I just need to write it first. Do you have a pen and ink? I only have paper."
"Yeah, I have some around. Give me a moment." Markon says as he starts checking under the bar for some. "Ahh, yes here it is." He says when he finds it.
"Thanks."
"Not all just let me know when you are ready." Markon says as he leaves to attend to another customer.
Dear Borazon and Samuel
You won't believe what has happened… I helped to fight a DRAGON! I still can't remember doing some of the fighting but everyone who was there that survived said I took it's head off with a shield. Oh, well that's not why I am writing because of law of bounty I got a couple of houses and I want to hire you Borazon to run them for me while I am out looking for a way home and in turn, I will leave them to you and Samuel if I ever make it home or die trying. The first home is inside the city of White Run it's called Breeze home.
I know don't think about dying but let's see I helped kill a Giant and Dragon in the same day so it's a good possibility. Don't worry The Jarl of White Run has made me a Thane and given me a housecarl. Her name is Lydia, and she is good in a fight. So, I am not by myself. I plan on finding my friend who I told you about.
I don't know how long I'll be, so I am going to leave the new key to Breeze home at the Battle Maiden. Breeze Home is right next to the black smith's There will be a second key inside Breeze home to a farm outside of the city. It's down the road to the stone bridges and to the left. I haven't been there yet but I may go and see it before I leave. After finding my friend, if I haven't heard from you I will head for Falls Creek before returning here. I hope to see you two soon.
Love Chrissy.
P.S. You can use the big bed until I come back than I call dibs.
Chrissy seals the letter with some candle wax and gives it to the cheery man with some gold. She finishes drinking her cider and leaves. As Chrissy walks past Breeze home, she still could hear the grunts and decide to head up to the other shops.
Black Cauldron White Run
"Welcome to the Black Cauldron. Maybe I can interest you in a love potion." Alena inquires.
"No thank you!" Chrissy replies as she has quick flash of Thadmor and Lydia's little rump and mumbles to herself. "I need bleach to wash that image out of my head."
"Of course, a lovely lady like yourself won't need a love potion. But you are looking a little peeked there. I could sell you some Lamas root for that." Alena remarks.
"Thanks, but I would like some Jaffa berries." Chrissy says.
"Ahh yes, I remember you. But I haven't gotten any more since the last time you were here." Alena tells her.
"When might you?"
"I am not sure. My normal supplier is late."
"Okay. How about some of those health potions." Chrissy asks.
"Sure, how many would you like?" Alena says as she turns to get them.
"I'll take four. Do you have any lamp oil?"
"Here is your four. I have a couple of small bottles of lamp oil."
"I'll take them. How much for all this?"
"Well let's see 15 gold for each health and 10 each for the oil. That will be 80 gold."
"I have a few bottles of this stuff." Chrissy says as she pulls out some bottles filled with a fluid; she had no clue what it was.
"Let me see…" Alena says as she takes the top off the bottles and smells each one. "This one camfree.. It's usually used in cooking, but this is quite a lot. Oh my… this is called Luuci."
"I've heard of that. It's some kind of nasty drug. I don't want it. Dump it." Chrissy says as she steps back away from it.
"Yes, it usually is bad stuff if taken wrong but I can change it to be an very nice strength potion." Alena tells her.
"Okay I don't want it."
"So, I'll trade you those for these." Alena indicates the potions Chrissy wanted to the bottles she wanted to get rid of.
"As long as we don't get into trouble for it." Chrissy agrees.
"No problem. Now about your red tint there. I have some Mollen root that can help with it."
"No, I am good." Chrissy says as she puts the new bottles into her pack.
"Are you sure I have Ramsweed wheat that could fix." Alena goes to say as but is interrupted by another customer opening the door.
"Thank you, Alena." Chrissy says as she heads out the door. "That woman is nuts." Chrissy thought to herself and was glad to be out of the shop and into the fresh air. She almost goes into the merchant shop but the skin crawling feelings that went down her spine scream in her mind "OH HELL NO!"
Chrissy spent the next hour walking around and found more of the city than she had before. Chrissy finds other shops that consisted of shops and utilities. She walked by a glass blower shop as she was afraid, she might accidentally break something if she went in. She did window shop at the weaver/seamstress shop as she figured if she had gone in it would be an all-day event. After that Chrissy bought a sweet roll at an open-air kitchen. She hurriedly passed a privy cloth cleaning area as the stench of soap was quite strong. Chrissy did stop at the tannery and sold off the hides she got at the barrow. She made that transaction very quick as stench from the process was quite strong. Chrissy decided to stop at the Leather smith shop just down the way.
Leather Smith White Run
"Beautiful work." Chrissy remarks as she lets her fingers slide over the detailed work of a horse on a saddle.
"Thank you. That piece took me 2 weeks to do."
"It shows. It's so beautiful I would be afraid to of damaging this artwork by riding a horse with it." Chrissy says in awe.
"It's mostly a show piece. I am Balmor is there anything I can help you with."
"Well, I don't have a horse yet, but I am looking for some saddle bags, a pouch or two."
"Those saddle bags are over there, and the pouches are on display on the far wall."
"Looks like you could use a specially make glove or gauntlet." Balmor boldly remarks.
"Actually yes. Can you do that?"
"Do you want anything special about it other than the lack of a finger?" Balmor asks as he takes her hand in his and looks over it carefully.
"Yes. I could use some extra padding in these area's." Chrissy says as she points to the middle of her palm then turns it over and points the exact same spot on the back of her hand. "Can I get the gloves in black?"
"Black is a good color, and that stitching will take just a little longer. I suggest that we add thick padding here." Balmor says as he points to where her finger had been. "Place your hand on this while I trace around it." He continues as he takes out a nice thick piece of soft light leather and lays it on his work bench. Chrissy places her hand on the leather and holds still as he traces her hand with a piece of charcoal.
"Looks like these stitches are ready to come out. I suggest you get them removed." Balmor once he was finished tracing her hand. Then motions for her other hand for him to trace which he quickly does.
"I will thanks. How long do you think it will take to make?"
"Shouldn't take more than an hour if that. Tell you what you go get your hand taken care of and by the time you get back I'll have it ready for you."
"Cool how much?"
"15 gold should be good."
"No problem I'll be back in a about an hour." Chrissy says as she heads out the door.
"See you than."
Chrissy makes her way up to the house of healing but stops at a few jewelry vendors to look for an amulet of Talos. She has no luck in finding one, so she quickly makes for the house of healing. At the house of healing Chrissy sees the priestess just finishing up working on a person who was moaning in pain.
Temple of Healing White Run
"Hail Chrissy." Danica happily greets her.
"Hail Danica."
"It is good to see you."
"And good to see you too." Chrissy says as she hugs the older woman.
"As good as it is to see you, but thanks to you and your House carl I am quite busy so my ask why you have come?"
"I hate to interrupt you working onthem, but I was wonder if you or someone had some time to look at my hand." Chrissy says as she holds it up for her to see.
"Oh, my that is looking like the stitches are ready to come out. How is that?" Danica remarks as she takes Chrissy's hand in hers and starts to examine it.
"I don't know. But they are itching can we take them off?"
"Alright sit here. Give me a few minutes and I will take care of it." Danica says as she points at a chair next to a table. Chrissy sits and waits while watching the other Priest and Priestess tending to the wounded and sick. Chrissy recognizes some of them being of the slaves she helped to free.
Danica returns a few minutes later with a tray that had some items covered with a towel and bowl of water on it too. Danica instructs Chrissy to lay her arm on the table with her palm facing up. Danica spends the next 20 minutes removing the stitches and is amazed at the healing.
"Hey Danica."
"Yes?"
"What kind of mental help can the slaves get?"
"What do you mean?"
"They have been physically, mentally and sexually abused and those aren't easy things to deal with even with time. Is there anyone that will help with the trauma in the years to come?" Chrissy asks.
"My Priests and Priestess are trained for such things." Danica answers.
"What about those that aren't of your faith?" Chrissy inquires.
"Priests and Priestess of most of the faiths are trained to deal with such." Danica answers with a gentle voice.
"That is good to know. " Chrissy remarks as she thinks about a few things.
"I was told you took a healing potion after this happened. Where did you get it?" Danica asks as she washes off the dry scaling skin that was starting to form on Chrissy's hand from not being washed.
"I got it from Genny in River Run." Chrissy answers.
"I'll will have to send a runner and see if hers work as well on others." Danica remarks.
"Here take this." Chrissy says as she hands her one of the last one she got from Genny.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, and here is some gold too." Chrissy says as she also hands her a pouch that contains about 2000 gold coins."
"This is a lot."
"Well, I did get a lot off the slavers and if you could use it to help them then it really isn't enough. If that stuff really does help heal fast than all the better." Chrissy says as she gets up. "I haven't forgotten about the knife you said I need but I have a friend who needs me. I promise to get it as soon as I help a friend and check in with some others."
"Thank you."
"No thank you and see you later." Chrissy says as she heads out the door and down to the leather smith to retrieve her new glove.
Leather Smith White Run
At the Balmor's, Chrissy was thrilled beyond delight as she saw that he had two versions of the glove for her.
"I make this one for everyday wear when you are not out adventuring. It is not as padded as but it should fit well and give you protection for chores." Balmor says as he holds up the first glove which was as exactly as he said. Then he produces a much thicker set. "Now this one is much thicker and padded where we discussed."
Chrissy takes the lighter one and tries it on and jumps for joy while hugging the man, on how nicely it fit. Then she tries on the other set and is amazed at the softness but ease of it. She knows that such work takes true skill and says. "You said 25 a set if I remember."
"No I said.."
"Here you go." Chrissy says as she hands him 50 gold before he can argue.
"I do…"
"Listen I know great work and to have a glove that fits that is well padded and not have an extra piece of leather that gets in the way means a lot to me so thanks. Oh, here is another 300 for those two saddle bags sets with the dragon on it or is it more?"
"Actually, that is more than what I was asking."
"Well, I love it and the workmanship is worth it." Chrissy says as she hands him the money and leaves with her new items calling out. "Thank you."
"She is something." Balmor's mutters while scratching his head and watching the door close then heads back to work.
Wood Crafter's Shop White Run
Chrissy next stops in at the wood crafter's shop and eyes the handmade furniture, she is especially in awe at what appears to be a wooden chest full of beautifully crafted chest pieces.
"See anything you like?" An older man approaches her.
"Oh, hi yes, I love this chess board. The pieces are intense. The dragons are really detailed." Chrissy says as she picks one up and carefully inspects it.
"I saw pictures of dragon's when I visited the grey beards when I was much younger and carved them from those pictures." The old man explains.
"So, what about the other pieces?" Chrissy asks as she notices the Knights on horses look much like that of the Templars.
"Oh, those are on some of the word walls up there." He explains.
"They look like the Knights Templar from where I am from." Chrissy says.
"I don't know who they were. I just tried to copy what I saw." He tells her.
"How much for the set?"
"It's not for sale I play with an old friend. But if you like I could make you one of your own."
"Yes please. How much?"
"100 gold now and 100 gold when I am done."
"I'll just pay now and you can drop it off at my place when your done as I don't know when I'll be back." Chrissy says as she drops a pouch filled with over 300 gold.
"Oh, really where do you live."
"The old Breeze home down by the blacksmith."
"OHHHH! You are the dragon born!" The old man cries out in surprise.
"No, I am just Chrissy. And you are?"
"I am Hardron. But I know you are the Dragon Born. The legend speaks of your coming and stopping the Dark One." He tells her. "I have seen it on the word walls. In fact, the tales are written all over the land on the walls."
"Really.. All over the land…Thank you. How long do you think it will take to make another Chess set?"
"It took me a little over month on that last set. So, about a month." Hardron answers.
"I don't know if I am going to be at Breeze home than why don't you hold on to it until I have someone come and get it." Chrissy suggests.
"Okay do you have any wood type you would like?"
"No. This one is so beautiful this would be fine. I need to head out now I'll see you later." Chrissy says as she leaves.
Chrissy just rounds the corner of the Black Cauldron when she sees Thadmor doing the walk of shame if you could call it that as he had a huge shit eating grin on his face while he struts by her.
"Morning Chrissy." Thadmor says as he walks by her on his way to dragon's keep.
"It is morning." Chrissy glares at him as he walks by whistling then she quickly makes her way back to Breeze home but doesn't go in quite yet as she goes back to Battle Maidens and gets her new keys then heads to Breeze home.
Breeze Home
"You better be decent." Chrissy calls out as she enters.
"I am." Lydia says as she shows she is ready for their trip.
"When I asked you to make sure I didn't do something stupid last night at the party I didn't mean for you to go and have sex with him to stop him from hitting on me so much." Chrissy says.
"It worked." Lydia answers with a smile. "Plus, I am glad you didn't want him as…"
"I don't want to hear it I heard enough." Chrissy remarks as her blush returns causing Lydia to laugh and Chrissy laughs too.
"Did you sell any of the items yet?" Lydia asks.
"Some. Plus, I did buy some new gloves and a couple of saddle bags. I also ordered a chess set. Which by the way did you know that the Legend of the Dragon Born is written all over the land." Chrissy says as she shows her new gloves.
"Yes."
"Maybe It might say how I got here and maybe how I can get home."
"It could but I only know of a few of the walls."
"I was thinking while we were heading to help my friend Sexy, we keep an eye out for them. I also left word for my friend Borazon and his grandson Samuel of my plans."
"That is good. Where are we heading first?"
"I know this is going to sound weird, but I have just have to follow my feelings as they will direct me to Sexy." Chrissy tries to explain.
"We can see about purchasing a horse or two on the way out of town." Lydia suggests.
"I just need to put this extra key to my farm where Borazon can find it." Chrissy says as she places it on the table next to the fireplace.
Public Stables outside of White Run
Chrissy and Lydia arrive at the stables in good spirits.
"Hail stable master Skulvar." Lydia calls out as they approach a man tending to a horse.
"Hail Lydia." Skulvar calls back. "What can I do for you?"
"We are looking for a couple of horses." Lydia tells him.
"I am sorry my friend, but the jarl has purchased them all."
"Why?"
"He has sent word to all of the Keeps that the Dragon Born has returned and she has become a Thane of White Run after beheading a Dragon with a shield."
"Damn I guess we walk." Chrissy remarks.
"Where are you heading?" The Stable master asks.
"That way." Chrissy says as she points to the Northwest.
"Well, you could take the Carriage towards MarkHall Keep." Skulvar suggests.
"What if we want to get off before then?"
"Don't know you'll have to ask Jarlam the carriage driver." Skulvar tells them as he points to a man reading while leaning up against a wagon.
"Thanks." Both women says as they head to the wagon.
"Hail Jarlam. I am Lydia and we seek your services."
"Where can I take you?"
"We would like to go towards MarkHall Keep but we may want to get off before. Is that a problem?" Lydia says.
"25 gold per person up front no matter if you get off early or not." He answers as he glances up.
Chrissy hands him that much then gets aboard with Lydia. Jarlam gets up and with a slight flick of the reins commands the horse to go.