Reyda Will Come Back

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Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, nor do I wish to make money off of this! This is merely for fun! 

Notes: Kink Meme Request Fill! The original request is as follows:

Anything having to do with Reyda. How did she die?

Personally, my theory is that she drowned. Also, just to mention, I did this in September. I suppose since I have this profile I should use it.

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All she needed was a few more bones. She had tried the haunted barrow but the bones there outside the door crumbled too easily and the ghost had scared her off. She wasn't nearly as strong as she had hoped with her magic so she couldn't face the ghost down. It left her with either travelling into the bear caves to fetch dead bodies or Geirmund's Hall. She chose the hall.

Narfi had begun to get suspicious on where she was going but she merely kept to her promise she was collecting ingredients for soups and stocks and when she came back they would eat like they had before. Of course it was a lie but he didn't have to know. Her brother was sweet and she loved him dearly but if he knew about what she was doing he would only raise questions or even worse, follow her and try it himself. Then the entire town would be after them both. She was careful, he wasn't. 

So she left him in the dark, buying nails for him to repair their house which was falling down due to the lack of upkeep. He could swing a hammer, cut a board, and chop logs for the fire. It was all he needed to do while she worked.

And then her break came. A body had floated up onto the shore one day near the northwestern side of the hall. It was a conjurer, with black robes she could tell were enchanted and she stripped the body immediately for them. The extra boost would help and she harvested organs from the dead Altmer, collecting as much as she could. Soon, she would bring their parents back to life and everything would be okay again. The body was a gift from the gods for her work, she just knew, and she went home that night with a bright smile on her face.

It had faded when Narfi got into her stuff, wanting mushrooms and honeysuckle after their meagre soup. She had screamed at him making him distressed before she moved to leave, taking everything in her satchel with her.

"Reyda!" he had said, not understanding what he had done and she tied her precious satchel hastily to her belt. "Reyda, I'm sorry! Narfi's sorry! Don't go!"

"Narfi-!" she spat, so angry she couldn't see but she calmed herself, knowing not to raise her voice so high with him. "I'm going out. To get plants. I'll be back later."

"Promise?"

"Yeah, I promise," she said rather quickly and she left with her satchel, her bones, and her potion of magicka. She was going to revive their parents, she swore before she lost all her things to Narfi and his damned curiosity.

Only something unexpected happened. While she was crossing the bridge, her belt came undone. All her ingredients spilled out, her butterfly wings falling over the edge and into the water and she panicked as she grabbed her precious finds. She shoved it all into her bag, bones falling out which she had to run to collect and in her haste, she lost her footing. She fell over the edge of the bridge and hit the water.

She could swim. She had known since she was a little girl but the weight of her collected bones, the robes she had put on which were new and not hers combined with the night and darkness of the water made her confused. She went down, not up, tangled herself in the weeds, her new robes catching on the rocks and with it, she sank.

All the while her brother sat at home, frowning at fire. He went to where his sister slept, pried off the board he knew she used to keep her treasures hidden and he looked at the wooden box kept below. He moved to open it as he had hundreds of times before but for some reason, tonight he knew he shouldn't. He replaced the board and went to sit in front of the fire, waiting.

"Reyda will come back," he said with a frown. "Reyda always comes back."

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