[Alina’s POV]
I don’t rember Auntie looking like this.
He face was stiff and her expressions were shaken.
What in the world...
I never have seen this strong woman like that. She was either furious like an angry beast or silly like doting parent.
I saw all her expressions, all her emotions, all her rage, and all her happiness. But she was never shaken.
She was the most amazing person I ever knew when I was a child.
Ti stopped in my head and I rembered old mories. So of the best mories and the saddest mories I ever had.
My mother died when I was young. I was so young that I can’t even rember her face anymore. They said she was so beautiful and everyone loved her. But since the ti I was born, she beca sick and weak.
When she died I beca the young mistress of the house. I don’t rember much since then but I was never liked by the clan that much. Sothing about my eyes made them wary. The eyes of Masser, different from the eyes of Secunda that all my clan has.
When I reached the age of five, the Firemane Clan sent people to request the aid of our clan for apprehending a mber of theirs that went rogue!
My father refused to send the n yet he carried his swords alone and went down the mountain. He said he alone was enough.
After a week! He returned with a strange woman that was covered in blood. He told the Firemane steward to return as the woman would stay with us until her matter is over.
Since that day, I’ve got to know that woman as Hilda. She was a large woman taller than any man in our clan. She lived in the castle with us and never appeared too much.
One thing we had in common, everyone was afraid of us!
She never talked and glared at people all the ti, but she didn’t glare at . Since that ti, we started to get to know each other.
I brought my dolls and started playing in her room, in ti she started to get close to too. Months passed and I was always with her, I slept in her room and ate with her. During that ti I got learn her story.
She had a child. A son she nad Jonhild. A son that everyone in the world wanted to see him dead.
In order for him to live. She had to give him to soone else in a far away place so he can grow up in peace. Her father, the one I knew later as Grandpa Turmond Firemane, forbade her from going to see him. He also didn’t want anyone to find him.
Auntie Hilda always cried when she was alone so I stayed with her most of the ti. I didn’t want to see her crying anymore.
By the ti I beca seven, my father started teaching the sword art of our clan, I was praised in every swing I made. Auntie Hilda also trained many tis.
When I beca ten years old, Auntie said that her son has also beco ten. She cried bitterly that I couldn’t stop her anymore.
All I could do is help her escape from our clan to go see her son.
The clan caught as I really didn’t put up much resistance. They tried to ask about her whereabouts many tis but I never said anything.
They gave up as they seed to have understood what was going on.
A month passed and Auntie ca back once again. She has changed a lot.
She was smiling all the ti since then. She said that she could see her son. He was very smart and had a very unique personality.
She said many things that ti but everything about Auntie changed. She beca a very happy person.
Grandpa decided that it is of no use to keep her anymore. She won’t go on a revenge spree once again judging by how she changed.
Auntie started doting rcilessly ever since and sotis it turned scary. She also took outside the clan many tis and showed the glade where here clan lives, the sea in the north, her ship, the animals she raises, the hot springs in Eastmarsh. She showed the world I never knew. I got to have many friends since then and the world beca so much easier to live in, I even started to get along with even my stupid clan.
All these mories went through my head in a few seconds. During these few seconds, Auntie was beside no more.
She was there, hugging that young man who just ca.
Just like her, he was tall and strong. Just like her, he had that red fiery hair and gleaming blue eyes.
I heard her crying sothing just a second ago.
She was saying... "Jonhild!"
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[Jon’s POV]
Almost six years have passed and that woman never changed.
She has no control over her strength!
She cried my na and hugged so fast that I couldn’t even have the ti to dodge.
Well, I wouldn’t have dodged her anyway!
She was... she was crying!
"I missed you, Jonhild! Mother missed you so much!"
Yeah! I missed you too.
I didn’t say that but I hugged her back.
By the ti she let go, I could see no one in the room. They all must have left.
"You have grown a lot, Jonhild." She said.
"Well, thanks to a certain annoying bloodline, I had to give all of my clothes away."
"Pffft hahaha! Well, we all did that at so point!"
"Ahaha! You haven’t changed at all!" I said as I looked at her. She was the sa as I rembered her.
"Hehe! The perks of being Firemane, we grow up as slow as elves!"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah!"
"Damn! I should prepare for a slow life from now on!"
Hilda and I started laughing mindlessly.
"Co, let’s sit!" She pulled over and sat on the sofa.
She was smiling brightly and warmly. My heart was being healed from seeing her smile. Rays of sunlight ca from the window behind the sofa and added more warmth on this cold day.
Hilda was a beauty! I could only be thankful to her for giving the genes to be this devilishly handso.
Her red curly hair and shining blue eyes were just the starts of our similarities. My hair was one degree darker and straight but it was nothing to consider different when we compare the rest of the features! Even our height was almost similar.
"How long has it been?" She wondered.
"Five years, eight months and fourteen days." I said.
"Woah! Soone was counting the days!" She said with a smile.
"Well, can’t bla for being aweso!"
"Hehe! Still the arrogant brat!"
I kept looking at her bright smile until she spoke again.
"Now tell , during those five years, eight months and fourteen days, how was your life?"
"Hmmm! Let’s start from the day you left..."
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Ti passed.
And more ti passed.
It was already sunset!
"Oh boy! That was the longest catching up I ever had!" Hilda said as she stretched her arms left and right.
"We still haven’t heard your turn!" I said.
"Co on! There is plenty of ti, and I am hungry!"
"Yep! I am hungry too."
"Where have they gone?"
"No idea!"
"Nurina took the wine barrel with her!"
"You brought Nurina a wine barrel?" I said as I felt a sudden headache in my head.
"Sorry about that!" She seed to know what she has done.
Good grief!
"Let’s go look for them."
Hilda and I went out of Nurina’s room and I locked it.
We took the stairs to Faralda’s room but no one was there, Laaneth didn’t know where they are either.
That only left one place possible.
"Let’s go to my house!" I said.
"Fufu! My son has his own house now."
"Well, if Nurina has a barrel of wine and took it to my house... well, at least the basent may survive."
We headed out of the College and reached the town. On the stone bridge of the College, I saw the Firemane ship in the sea.
"That’s one huge ship!"
"Hehe! That’s my ship, the ’Guilty Crown’! It used to be the flagship of the ’Blood Fleet’."
"The Blood Fleet? The fleet of the Bloodsail Clan!"
"Hehe! Ten years ago, I infiltrated their clan, freed a lot of prisoners and workers from enslavent, beheaded their patriarch, and stole the ship. The Bloodsails never dared to sail far away from their port ever since that day. All they could do is to use other nas like the ’Blood Horkers’ or whatever to avoid now!"
Daaaamn!
Well! I guess that was one angry Hilda back then.
"You are not causing a ruckus anymore, right?"
"Nah! I was stopped by a childhood friend of mine. It was not my finest mont but it was the ti when friends act to save each other’s hide."
We kept talking until we reached the town. There were a lot of people gathered around so place.
"What is going on there?" Hilda asked.
"Oh! That’s the notice board. It must be the announcent!"
"Announcent?"
"Co! You will like that one!"
I walked to the crowd which moved to the left and right once they saw .
"Hmm!" Hilda humd as she started reading the announcent!
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It is with a great pleasure that we announce, to the good people of Winterhold, the establishnt of the ’Dare Dragon Company’ under the managent of Thane Jon Dare, Thane of Winterhold.
The company has taken the permission to invest in all the public resources around the Hold.
The company opens the door for a lot of major Departnts that will work day and night for the prosperity and the protection of Winterhold and all its people. The Major Departnt are; Construction, Real-Estate, Security, Exploring, Industry, Trading, Transportation, Investnt, Insurance, and Entertainnt departnts alongside other minor service departnts.
Another series of recruitnt announcents and requests will be announced on a later date.
- Jon Dare (Chief Executive Officer)
- Wulfur (Industrial Departnt)
- Ongeim (Transportation Departnt)
- Elishka (Financial Departnt)
- Trudvar (Security Departnt)
- Mjoll (Exploration Departnt)
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"....." Hilda was speechless.
"Do you like what you see?" I asked.
To tell the truth, I was showing off what I have done.
"There a lot of complicated words but it is no wonder that the Bloodsails were afraid of you!" She said.
"Hehe! You liked my gift last night?"
"Fufu! You rascal! You really made a score on them. They won’t forgive you even though you managed to pin the death of their son on us."
"Well, from this day onward, I would love to see them doing sothing about it!"
"Are you prepared for them?"
"Heh heh! I have a plan in motion, it would take ti but they also need a lot of ti to recover. The Hold is now completely mine."
"Winterhold is mostly a wasteland, you know. You sure you can find anything useful?"
"Fufu! You have no idea, Hilda! You have no idea!"
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