All Chapters of Dragonborn: Chapter 11
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11. Forward
Cold. That was the first thing he felt.Not the sharp bite of Emberfall’s snow he had grown up to love, but a damp, heavy cold that clung to his bones like wet cloth.Tomas opened his eyes, weakly. A flicker of firelight blurred into focus above him. The ceiling wasn’t the thatched roof of the home he used to know, but rough canvas— from memory he knew it to be a trader’s tent. His ribs ached with every breath he took, wrapped tight in linen that smelled of herbs and something foul.He groaned as he tried to sit up from the wool covered bed.“Easy there, lad.” A gruff voice came from the shadows. A man with a scarred jaw and fur-lined cloak leaned forward, pressing a steaming cup into Tomas’s trembling hands. “Drink. You’ve been out for two days. We thought you’d gone to the frost. But fortunately you survived.”Tomas looked at the man, he was kind looking, had brown hair and a warm smile. He stayed there motionless holding the cup in hand and watching the steam rise from it and dance
12. The Girl With Golden Hair
Minutes turned to hours, the silence stretched longer than expected. The trader and his coachman Turnip continued to ride the carriage in a certain direction past the snow covered forest and down the half frozen forest path. Tomas had nothing but the spund of horse hooves smashing into snow to comfort him in his present moment.His face was forlorn of a void that needed filling, but did he want it being filled or did he chose to remain empty?The trader did not bother him for a while, he would occasionally come into the carriage to check if he was fine, and keeping warm. Tomas barely reacted each time he appeared before him, he only clung tight to the book that was the only reminder to the home he had lost.His purpose in life now seemed uncertain, his future he had drafted now ash.A few more hours passed and it was nearing nightfall, that was when he heard the voice of the Trader again, this time it sounded very bright. "Hey kid, we're here." His voice reeked of optimism.Tomas bare
13. The Odd Man
Ash pat a whining Snow gently on the head as she bulged her head out of his coat. He steadied his breathing as he climbed over a huge tree root, his stomach gave a low growl so primal he almost thought it was the leopard pup.The forest of trees in front of him only grew more dense. Lyra had been in more of an haste than she usually was and it left him a bit more out of breath than he had been before.He had not seen her in a while now but knew she had to be lurking somewhere in the trees, or he proposed she might be. Snow was the only thing that relieved the loneliness he felt even by a little but not having anyone to talk to for the time being proved detrimental to his mind and body.Ash's thoughts slowly drifted back to the day his world crumbled, he tried to forget it all; the cries from that day but that was not the person he was.Since the day of the incident he seemed to be overwhelmed by the chaos for days that nothing made sense, he had even tried to take his own life. But of
14. The Chained Man
Creeping closer to the sounds of laughter of what had to be at least two men he could feel his heart thumping in his chest, he would have perhaps heard it but his breathing was too loud for him to focus on that.Snow gave him a strange look of fear and worry. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." He suspected the pup could smell lies because it whined and looked away from him.Ash had to convince himself that he was doing the right thing, and what was the right thing anyway? He tried to walk as carefully as he could, but he could barely move without making a sound. Lyra had been the only one who could move around without making a sound, thinking about her made him anxious again.Ash was slowly getting closer, the sound of men grew louder. He tried to push past the tree branches slowly without making much noise.It did not take long before he came by a huge tree trunk, he leaned right next to it and peeped over the edge to see a small space a few feet ahead. It was
15. By The Flip Of A Coin
Ash stood there looking in shock at three dead bodies scattered on the ground and a bloody elf standing over them all. Even Snow seemed impressed as she gave a proud whine, Ash felt the need to gag and he did. To his disappointment nothing came out of his already empty bowels.Lyra looked over her shoulder and held her gaze on the scene of what she had done for the fraction of a second before addressing him. "We have to go there are others coming."Before Ash could ask how she knew this someone interrupted, and the chained man seemed all to interested in them now. "By the devil's arse, that was a mighty good save. If you could kindly take me down from here I would appreciate it, though I can't promise you riches. I shouldn't have said that part, ignore the last bit."Lyra did not spared the chained man a look as she walked over to the first corpse of the man she had killed recently and pulled out her other dagger.Ash looked up at her, then his gaze fell to the chained man. "What abo
16. Kip
The sound of fire crackling caused Ash to wake up, he found himself lying down on a dead log and under the night sky. Everywhere was covered in snow and cold, but for some reason his body was running warm.The first voice he heard was that of the strange man he had saved, it was a warm contrast to the cold lifeless voice he had been accustomed to for so long. "Are you awake now? Or are you going to start talking in your sleep again."Ash did not respond at first, he sat up straight and pressed his palm on his chest. His heart rate was fine, and that was the problem. He felt fine now but earlier, he felt like he was going to die out there.He looked around and accessed his surroundings, the man he had saved was sitting on a small rock boulder at a small distance. He gave him a wave and a bright smile. There was a small fire in the middle that looked like it would die within the next hour. Snow revealed herself on the log, the little pup climbed into his laps and nibbles at his palm. H
17. DrakkonXebec
Ash sat there paralysed by shock for several minutes, his mind pondered if she was messing with him. But that did not seem in her character. So what did that then mean to him?He wondered which was more traumatizing. That the mother he never grew up with, or ever knew existed was alive?Or that she might have had an idea what had happened to him before it even happened. Did that mean she always knew where he was and never showed up? If she did know where he was, why did she not come himself.Lyra broke his minutes of silence with even colder words of her own. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that. I wanted to see how you would react."Ash did not know how to feel about that either... Did that mean she was she was trying to show that she could be trusted or that she was trusting him? It could also be that she was lying to manipulate him, he did not really know anything about her either way. So was it a ploy to control him or the truth?The words slipped out of his mouth like venom. "How
18. The Past
Lyra maintained a steady gaze with Ash, her eyes barely blinked even for a second as she spoke. "You want to know about your mother? I can't promise I know much, after all I was only recently stationed by the border before being sent to come here."Ash listened attentively to her words, he could almost hear his own heart beating slowly. His pupils dilated, "I'm listening."She drew a short breath of air and let the silence settle there for a moment before she spoke again. When she did her voice was soft and almost tender. "Moonblade assassin's are moonlight elves chosen to be the best of their respective clans. We are chosen to help protect those who cannot protect themselves, I was only recently enlisted. My parents died in the same service, killed by human scum."Kip who had been quietly listening to the stories snapped his fingers together, gaining their attention. "I apologise for interrupting but how did you parents die if no human has gone over the wall before?"The elf girl's e
19. Motive
"Let me get this straight, you can't get back to the wall the same way you came. And you also don't want to take advice from the locals here?" Kip said with a very clear hint of sarcasm. They were currently making their way through the forest in the light of day. Lyra led the group as she always did, she found herself losing her senses by the second. She tripped several times over tree roots she should have seen earlier. She tried to block out the noise of others, she could hear her breath wheezing. "What's happening to me?" She said under her breath. Ash answered Kip with very little enthusiasm. "She's afraid of being discovered. If we could get a map, we would know where we're going." "I'm not afraid." She said under her breath, too low for any of them to hear. Kip grinned from hear to ear as he whistled to the wind and looked at the trees around him, then turned his gaze to the sky. He peered at the sky for a while before saying, "There are no birds in the sky." Dry leav
20. The Man In The Other Room
Tomas groaned as he kicked the bedsheet off his body, he had been in Larshak's physician house for three days. Within that time he had been nursed to good health and grown a bit fond of the physicians daughter, Mera.In the time he had spent there he had always been woken up early every morning by the sounds of screaming. It always came from the room next to his and he had ignored it at first but the screams became more bone rattling by the second.Listening to it filled him with a lot of dread.He sat up straight, his eyes shot up as his gaze narrowed in on the wall opposite him; fearing the screams would shatter it.Several seconds passed, feeling like minutes. But then it stopped abruptly, in that moment his chest tightened. He had not realised he had been holding his breath through the whole ordeal, he let himself breath. Surprised by how heavy his breathing was he paused for a bit before taking another breath.A few minutes passed leaving him paralysed in fear, he could still rec