The Elder's Scrolls

Assassins in the Night

A/ N : I finally got something posted! And it's in the 2nd person viewpoint, like I said I'd try out. Lemme know what y'all think about it! Also, this is an introduction to my new OC, Auriinye. Of sorts. I'm thinking of putting up a character reference chapter - thingy of Torra and Auriinye. Hmm ...

You step back slowly, the chipped steel sword still embedded in your palm. Your chest heaves against the clothes you'd just recently purchased from Radiant Raiment, and the cold sweat that's broken out earlier was starting to abate.

Multiple thoughts race through your mind, forming theories and wild ideas about why you were attacked.

You swallow the lump in your throat, then hesitantly lean down and nudge the cooling body of your attacker. Your fingers brush over the dark leathers and the occasional metal stud. Your fingers continue their journey, becoming more and more acquainted with the now dead body, and soon both your hands are rummaging over the body, checking every single pocket and crevice of the leathers.

Masser and Secunda shift from behind a particularly dark cloud and offer you light as you continue to search your attacker. The new light gives the leathers a color, a deep, maroon red, and an endless black. Your throat constricts in on itself as realization dawns on you: this is a Dark Brotherhood assassin.

Your hands, which were frozen in place, begin to search more furiously now, your eyes straining to find the slightest hint of a reason why someone wanted you dead.

Finally, your hand brushes against the familiar rough edge of parchment. You seize it immediately and snatch it open, eyes darting left and right as they read the scrawled penmanship.

As instructed, you are to eliminate Auriinye, the Bosmer - Altmer mix, by any means necessary. The Black Sacrament has been performed - somebody wants this poor fool dead. Probably the same person who ordered her mother's untimely demise.

The elf shares her Bosmer father's appearances for the most part, she has the unruly sandy - colored hair of her Altmer mother. She sticks out like a Khajiit in an Orcish Stronghold. She was last sighted in Solitude, wearing the clothes of a Noblewoman.

No matter, Torra. We've already received payment for the contract. Failure is not an option. But with you, I don't think I need to worry about that, do I?

Astrid