Sweet Sanity

Sweet Sanity Chapter #3

             The wagon starts to come into view as I walk back from Whiterun. As I drew nearer I got more and more anxious for my future. I can either ask for a ride to falkreath with him , Or I can travel to...well, I don't know. I'll go to where the wind takes me. Oh my, what have I gotten myself into. Should I have just let Cicero suffer and walked away. No, that wouldn't solve anyone's problem. Maybe he was brought to me, like a sign that it's time for my life to begin.

There he was. The man that held my future in his hands. If he says he cannot give me a ride, I will surely be lost and alone. He was standing there with his hand on his chin looking at his wagon. What was he thinking, I so desperately wanted to know.

" Cicero I have returned with the needed tools, I'll get to work immediately." I say as I take the tools from my satchel.

" Oh my, you surely have saved poor Cicero. Begs the question, why do such a thing?" He says leaning up against the wagon watching me begin my work.

" Why would I help you? ....Why it's strange, but I just felt like someone inside was telling me too. Like a voice. That makes me sound crazy, huh?" I giggle a bit.

Cicero's face curved into a smile. He seemed to relate in a way.

" Why we are turning out to have a lot in common!" He said as he clapped his hands and laughed maniacally.

" How does a girl like you learn such handy tricks. I wouldn't expect the niece of a farmer to be so hands on." He asked me.

Ok well this was a chance to tell him more about myself. Not too much though, I wouldn't want him finding out about mother.

" Well, for the majority of my life I grew up in riften. I was an orphan, well I still am but that's not the point. I would try to make some extra coin once and awhile. So I asked the carriage driver to show me how to repair wagons. I mooched, so the lessons were free. This way if anyone ever broke down around me I could charge them and make some extra coin."

I realized what I was saying, I had made it seem like I wanted money.

" Oooooohhhh, yes. Reminds me, So how much do I owe you darling?" Cicero inquired.

"Don't worry about the coin, it's on the house." I say without turning around to look at him.

"Pish posh Corrina, I have to give you something. You have done so much for Cicero and my mother, you deserve a reward." He stopped leaning on the wagon, in an effort to make his argument seem more sincere.

" Well, there is something else you could do for me." I say turning around to him.

" Im listening." He put a hand up to his ear and leaned down to me.

" Well, I have kind of burned down all my bridges here. And If I try to leave with the carriage driver in town, Loreius can just ask where I went. So if it's not too much to ask could you-" I was interrupted by Cicero's index finger over my lips. He shushed me...

" I would be happy to travel alongside you, wherever you need to go I will take you. It is the least I could do." His face was mere inches from mine.

My face burned as hot as the sun. My cheeks were flushed with bright red coloring. I took a step back and put a fist to my mouth and my shoulders seemed to retract right up next to my neck. He saw what he had done to me and took a mental note. He chuckled softly, in a deep voice that I hadn't heard before. It was... seductive.

" Uh... You can take me to Falkreath with you. I don't want to make you go too much out of your way for me. I can get a ride from there, and don't try to talk me out of it. As much as you think i'm doing for you, you have set my life on track. I can now focus on what i've always wanted to do with myself ." I say to the now seductive faced man.