The End-Days War

Chapter 9: A Way Through

The Queen of the Wolves has returned to Ragnar and Delphine so she can offer the both of them guidance. Ragnar seems confused at this and had no idea what was going on but Delphine couldn't get around to care about what Lagertha was telling her. Delphine felt like she was just questioning her about useless things that seemed unimportant to her liking. And so, she wandered off by herself and went out for a little walk in the forest when she started to receive visions of herself a Thousand Years Ago. These Visions continued to be with her and it was truly with her for the rest of her days as she wandered the many lands of the Earth.
There is, indeed, a terrible darkness in you, Delphine, for there is nothing you can ever do to change it. Each day, I watch as you slowly get more powerful but also as you slowly succumb to the Darkness that you have sought to destroy. Your soft and warm body does not feel like any ordinary body for it is pale and white, yet dark as your Soul. Oh, the Horror that revolves heavily around you each day as you get even closer towards The Daedric Lords. Beware, lest you find yourself struggling to get out of that Darkness but finding nothing but empty lands that are as black as night. Farewell, for now.

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Delphine finds herself back to where Ragnar and Iris were resting themselves under the large tree that was behind them. Delphine then gets herself down to the ground where she would rest herself from all the walking and the wandering that she has done. She lays herself down on the grass and she uses her long Cape to cover herself from the Cold Wind revolving around her. She closes her eyes and she goes to sleep for a good minute before she could open her eyes again and say something else to herself. She gets herself up and she sits up onto the grass and she looks down at herself and she spoke to herself, saying, "I'm finding it a bit uncomfortable to get a good rest wearing clothes."
And so, as it was now Late Morning, Delphine begins to take off her clothes that she was wearing and she lays it aside next to her. And again, she lays down onto the Grass and she uses her long Cape and she covers her bare body to get some sleep. And so, Delphine gets some more sleep as the Late Morning is upon them as they were resting themselves. Delphine suddenly began to feel comfortable than she's ever been and nothing else woke her up. They continued to rest themselves for the time being and nothing else interrupted them.
Suddenly, Ragnar was walking slowly towards Delphine to speak with her as she was asleep on the floor. As he was walking towards her, Delphine slowly began to open her eyes and see that it was Ragnar who was walking towards her. Delphine never took herself for a heavy sleeper, because she always saw nothing when she was asleep and nothing more. And then, Delphine slowly began to lift herself up from the ground and she was now sitting down on the grass. Ragnar had a very concerned look onto his face as he approached Delphine and he had the eyes of someone who has seen someone immortal.
           "May I speak with you?" Ragnar asked her.
           "Yes, sure." Delphine answered.
           Then, Ragnar goes towards Delphine and he sits down next to her and she does not go anywhere else from there. Ragnar's eyes continued to look weary and he was very fearful of what was going to happen to both him and the rest of them. Delphine looks at Ragnar where he was sitting and she was beginning to worry greatly about him as he looked like this. Then, she looks away from him and she looks down at herself as she was realizing something that troubled Ragnar's soul. "You've seen her, didn't you?" She asked him.
           "Yes... I have." Ragnar said.
           "Lagertha. The Wolf Queen." Delphine said.
           "I remember her. She took me in when I was just a Boy and she trained me to survive and taught me to kill. She made me who I am now and for many years, I have fought, hunted, survived, and killed and never knowing that she was always watching over me. I do not know why she comes back to me all of a sudden and why all of a sudden I begin to feel her presence wherever I go. It pleases me, and yet it sickens me to the very core that she has come to either haunt me or even give me some sort of advice that I thought I would never reach."
           "I understand, Ragnar. For she was also with me."
           "What makes you say that?"
           "Ever since I have walked this Earth and ever since I have been on this long Journey fighting any Demon that stood before me, I have always felt her presence coming and I felt it reach me. I could not let it escape and it would never leave me for it was always in my presence and in my very Soul. My Soul trembles at her very sight and even seeing her in person brings a sudden end to your heart's beating. You see that she is very immortal and cannot be defeated by the likes of any mortal and she has lived on this Earth for many thousand years. She has lived in the Wilds and she has sought to seek those who lust for power their everlasting desire.
           "The most that she has ever encountered were those who came out of curiosity's sake or even they were chosen for a lost cause. From what I understand, you must be the last one that she has came to and it must've revealed something in you, and she heard it."