15 Dualahei 835

(Davinara)
Uthemar was right. He knows a lot of things about the land and the seasons and the days and the moon and the animals and the plants. The seasons. Now they are different. Just when you’re getting used to the sun moving in the sky and being super bright and then disappearing after just an hour of normal light and the darkness arriving after that with the moon in it. Come to think of it, the moon is almost as crazy as the seasons. But seasons. So they’re different. Days get shorter and colder and a lot of plants die. But they come back Uthemar said. So I don’t worry about that because Uthemar was right about a lot of things. Now we’re in the season of spring and some plants have small buds and seem to be getting ready for summer, which Uthemar promised would come after spring.

As crazy and interesting as the seasons and the moon are people. The moods of some people change quicker than the moon changes her faces. I guess that’s why Sigurd told me not to trust strangers. He is nice. Not like Mary Stewart or William Stewart are nice. They give me food sometimes when I bring them rabbits or roots. Their kids are nice too. Also not like Sigurd. They smile more. But Sigurd can not smile because of his job he told me. It is bad if the bad people see him smile. He smiles for me sometimes. I like it when he smiles. He knows A LOT about people. Why some are scared of me. Or him. And why they look different. And why some have angry moods. It is because they have something stuck up their arse Sigurd says. I don’t know why they don’t take it out. And Sigurd told me not to help them take it out. Or to look. People don’t like when you look at their arse Sigurd says. Which is strange, because some men people seem to like to look at my arse. One even grabbed my arse. I put pain in his brain and made him run away. Sigurd laughed about that when I told him. He said I did it right. He teaches me a lot. About the metal pieces you can buy boots for and how to talk to merchants. He and Uthemar know a lot about different places. I am glad they met. They will learn so much from each other.

Today I made a new friend. Khajiit. He is a Tabaxi. But he didn’t shoot arrows at me. He also has a different color from the ones in the woods that do shoot arrows. He seemed a bit sad when I first saw him sitting on the square. And cold, though it was colder a moon and a half ago. I followed him for a few days, because you can’t trust strangers, as Sigurd says but he didn’t shoot arrows at anyone. He doesn’t even have a bow. He has some magical shimmering knives he seems to hide under his cloak somewhere. He throws them at birds and eats them. The birds. Not the knives. So today I bought a chicken to eat with him. Mary prepared it for me. I was hoping he liked roasted big birds. I like them better than raw small birds. And he did. He was cold but he needs the metal pieces. For his wife I think. Because he brings all the pieces to the place where they live. Everyday. So I asked him to come to Mary, at the Black Horse Tavern to eat and get warm. He was hesitant but when I gave him a grey coin he wanted to come. He thought I wanted something from him. He’s funny.

We went to the tavern and met Uthemar on the way there. Sigurd was at the Black Horse already. So I could introduce all my friends and my almost friend Khajiit to each other. Sigurd talked business things with me. About yellow metal rewards and things. He seemed a bit upset about me making friends with strangers. But after I told him I followed Khajiit for a few days before I made friends he seemed less concerned. So the business was so secret Sigurd wanted to talk about it at my tree. Where people can not hear. Because they are afraid of the forest. And it is not even that dangerous close to Shadycreek Run.

On the way to my tree Khajiit and Sigurd made friends. They even put their faces really close together so they could talk better. After the talk we finally went to my tree. Khajiit liked it so much he gave me my grey metal back. Then Sigurd told us his scary boss asked us to go to the ruins to find things for rewards. And Sigurd doesn’t even like his boss that much, so it must be good rewards to go into the dangerous forest. Otherwise Sigurd would not go. But Uthemar told us that if we find things in the ruins we have to take them to his people and that they will give us a better reward. They want to fix the forest, so I wanted us to go with Uthemar’s plan. I told Sigurd this and he agreed with me. Khajiit also wants to fix the forest or at least get yellow metal. His eyes really gleamed when Sigurd told us how many we’d be getting.

Then we decided that we needed to show each other how well we can deal with danger and threat. Well. If I know one thing of danger it is that you have to be more dangerous. Or run. So it turned out Khajiit and Sigurd had seen some heavies from one of the nasty families and that was what they had been talking about when they put their faces together. So we decided to teach them not to try and scare us. It went really well. One of them dropped dead like the birds when Khajiit threw one of his shimmering daggers. It was really exciting. Uthemar even changed into a bear! Then we took their things like Sigurd taught me to. When you have the time, take everything useful he told me this winter. Khajiit seemed to know about this too. He helped me take the things.

After that we went to a merchant and I negotiated a deal with Sigurd’s help. I’m glad he taught me about merchants. Then we went to eat at the Black Horse. I’m really happy I have so many friends now. Friends that are not afraid. They can help me fix the forest for sure.

(Sigurd)
I don’t trust this. I don’t trust the boss giving me this job. I’ve got 100 crowns to get a gang and go to these ruins and take special stuff from there. It’s in the fucking woods. I know davinara enough to take her. I told her we meet at the black horse. She made new fucking friends again. I told her you don’t in shitty creek run. She gets herself killed, but then don’t. It was a forestman and a catman this time. There is a chance their skills are just the thing is needed. Uthemar and khajiit they names.
We go davinara’s tree. I tell them the job. They’ll come for share of 20 crowns, I take 2 shares. Catman chance notice something wrong. I tell he take half my share. He 30, I 30, they 20, everyone happy. We went round ambush on our way to the tree. We say we see others skill and go back and do the work on the ambush. We stalk them and catman show heart and come out. I respect him and step out too and devinara and forestman too. We do the work. Two run, three to the mud. We take their stuff, sell it and go black horse.
Catman has to move his wive. Others have to take their stuff.
I’m not going back. I step out of uttolot and never come back to shitty creek run. We sell stuff from ruins in a place forestman knows. I don’t trust them, only devinara. But I trust boss less now. No way back.