Slowly the two companions made their way from Caldera to Balmora. Two travel companions are a normal sight on Vvardenfell/Morrowind.
One of them was a young man, maybe twenty years old. He didn't look much like one of the races you know from the isle, but everyone simply thought of him as a Breton. His black hair was done in a pig-tail, his eyes were of a stormy blue color and he was a least six feet tall. His clothing consisted of in a red shirt and black pants and a light chitin armor.
His companion was a girl, around seventeen in age. She too didn't really look like one of the races of Morrowind, but rather more like the young man. So everybody thought of her a Breton. She was only five foot tall, has black hair and violet eyes. She wore a robe, so you couldn't really say what she wore beneath it, but a careful observer could see that she too wore a chitin armor beneath the robe. In her hands she had a massive daedra pole arm.
The girl was constantly grinning at the young man, who was frowning at her.
"'Boots of blinding speed'," she snickered.
"Oh, shut up, Hotaru," he shot back.
The girl, Hotaru, only snickered some more, causing him to roll his eyes. The result of their last quest really wasn't what they had thought. They had met a Trader named Permenie north from Caldera. She had said that she lost her guard and was on the way to Gnaar Mok. They had nothing better to don and escorted her to the town. As thank she gave them a pair of 'Boots of blinding speed'. He tried them out and ran directly into a nearby tree. Okay, the boots made you very fast, but at the same time they made you blind.
According to the people in Gneer Mok, she had pulled more stunts like this and seemingly had a bounty on her head.
"I swear, I'll sell this goddamned boots the next time I'm able to do it." he said.
"Don't take it too hard, Ranma."
The young man, Ranma, breathed in deep and shook his head.
"I should have taken her out on the spot."
Hotaru raised an eyebrow.
"So much for the guy who changes into a woman and wasn't able to take someone out permanently when he came here first."
Hotaru was right. Ranma had came to Balmora three years ago, through some kind of teleport spell. It was only a few days after the failed wedding and his live had gone down the drain. It took him some time to used to the harsh world of Vvardenfell.
There he had met Hotaru an young mage, who had been adopted by Ranis Athrys. From the look of it Hotaru herself had came to Balmora in the same fashion as Ranma. She had came as a young girl of five and had been badly injured. Even the best healers weren't able to help her completely. She still was a bit weak, but she was extremely talented in the area of healing and destruction. And her pole arm was specially enchanted to act as a focus for her.
In the last three years Ranma had tried to find a healer that was able to heal his curse, but so far he found nothing. And these assassins of the Dark Brotherhood wasn't a good thing either.
They just entered the northern gate of Balmora, as a teleport spell hit them. As they rematerialized they...
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