Jade sighed pulling back a bit from the man,"Stop squirming, Ralof, or else I'll never be able to heal your shoulder."
"It will heal naturally." Ralof retorted crossing his arms, leaning back against the table. "I don't trust it. Leave the fancy magic to the milk drinking elves."
"Not all elves are terrible, you know." She pressed her quivering lips together. "It's mostly just the Embassy. They do seem to give all Altmer a bad name though.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean..."
The brown haired imperial, hit Ralof on his head, "Now you've done it. You're going to make her cry."
"It's alright." She said quietly, "I came to terms with my father's death a long time ago."
"He was a good man, you know."
"I know, Hadvar. I blame the his shipwreck for what happened to him. To him and my mother."
Ralof's response was cut off when Jade spotted the Inn Keeper heading towards the cellar. "Wait! Balagog said he didn't want any visitors because he's... working on a new book."She said hastily."He said it would be months before he wanted anyone to go down there."
Ralof gave her a strange look, "What was that about?"
"Well, what was your little scuffle about?"
His icy blue eyes turned to Hadvar. "Can you believe the nerve of these Imperials? First you try to have the true High King executed and then you have the nerve to rob orders for the Stormcloak soldiers!"
"Not a very good pickpocket are you, Hadvar?"
"When I sighed onto the army I signed up to be a warrior, not a thief. Thieves have no honor." He said defensively.
"There is at least a little honor in being a thief. Everyone has at least a little honor, no matter who they are." Unless they're Mercer Frey.
Hadvar draped an arm around her shoulder, squeezing gently. "There's the Jade we've missed. Positive and innocent as always. "
"Right..." She said, thinking about how she brought her ten year old son into a guild full of assassins, home of her Argonian brother, a shadowscale, and how she almost married the man who called himself a master thief. Good life choices...
"Is something wrong Jade?"
"Just thinking about something. Sorry for the short meeting, but I need to go. Just try not to kill each other, unless it's absolutely necessary. I would hate for one, or both, of you to be missing the homecoming party after the war."
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A Fool's Blade
FanfictionForced to spend some time away from the guild, Jade wonders about looking for work and comes across a strange-looking imperial man. He claims to be transporting his deceased mother, but is there more behind this story? After the encounter, Jade beco...
