The Dawnguard Hunter

Frozen Shores

Kirena was standing next to Ariia on the back of the ship as normal except she was wearing her cloak and was purposefully drawing out her exhaled breaths.

"Have you never seen your breath in winter before?" Ariia asked as she was slightly concerned. 

"I have. It's just fun to play with sometimes." Kirena responded.

"I suppose." Ariia said as she watched the elvish nord with a raised eyebrow and an awkward smile. 

The two stood there and watched as the water and distant land flowed smoothly past them as the days grew colder.

"Where are we landing in Skryrim?" Kirena asked.

"A city called Windhelm then we get are pay and are free to roam the land and do whatever the fuck we want." Ariia answered. "And do try not to freeze to death when we get there."

"I won't, though I can't wait until tonight when we get around the fire." 

"If you are cold now you won't last a day in Windhelm, the city is covered in snow and ice."

Kirena couldn't imagine an entire city covered in snow and ice the Ariia described it making her think that no one would have torches or fires burning.  

The day slowly faded into night as snow began to lightly fall and the fire at the front of the ship started to burn as everybody gathered around it. Mostly it was the crew saying how wheb they land they couldn't wait to get out of Skyrims weather. A few others along with Kirena and Ariia told of how they wanted to come to Skyrim for new opportunities. Ariia told of how Skyrim was more rich with monster contracts than Cyrodiil,  Kirena said she was going to try to visit her friend. 

Then somebody opened a wine bottle and started passing it around as everybody talked.

"Hey dawnguard." One crew mate said trying to get Ariias attentions.

"What?" She responded.

"Isn't there another dawnguard fortress in Skyrim?"

"I'm surprised you knew that you dumb bag of shit." 

Ariia continued to talk about the Skyrim dawnguard fortress, how it was the first for all Dawnguard Hunters before they spread out across Tamriel in their now hidden fortresses. 

Kirena sat and listened as the bottle was passed to her, she took a drink then passed it to Kalos who was sitting behind her as she was resting her head on his leg. 

"Just think." He said. "Tomorrow night we will be docking at the harbor in Windhelm."

"I can't wait." Kirena said to him. "Do you know of the forests in there?"

"I think there are some in southern holds." Kalos answered. "I'm not sure the names though."

Kirena was happy to hear of the forest again espically since it had been so long since she saw them.

"Where's that lizard?" Ariia asked loudly breaking Kirenas thought. 

The argonian showed himself and Ariia forcefully grabbed his hand and took him to the second deck.

"You're keeping me warm tonight." She said as they went below.

"Well Ariia is done for the night." Kirena said aloud to the other crew making them erupt in laughter. 

"Gods i'm going to miss you Side Down." One crew mate said as he took a sip from the bottle making Kirena blush slightly.

"Come on lads lets get some sleep so we can enjoy our night tomorrow longer." The last crew mate said as he got up. "Oh lets disturb the warming couple." Making everyone laugh again.