Thallon Eljeon: Consummation of Light

Chapter 6

Thallon's View

"Thallon."

Netoria spoke softly and pointed to a Thalmor guard watching the road outside of Fort Icerunner. I drew my bow back and shot an arrow into his throat. He collapsed without a sound. We snuck up and moved his body into the brush. I took lead as we slowly inched towards the front gate. She stopped me and signaled she was going around back, I nodded and she left. I waited for the signal. After staring into the night sky for a brief moment a flaming arrow pierced the darkness. I shot up and spun around. I saw two guards at the lookout. I shot one and the other started to run. I quickly notched another arrow and released. The arrow struck his thigh and he fell off the side and landed on the ground with a loud thud. I went up to the front gate and picked the lock. Went I opened the gate up half the guards were already dead. Some Elven soldiers were starting to come out of the Fort and were charging Netoria. She fired an arrow at the first one to run at her and then she shouted,

"Iiz slen nus!"

The men who were charging her were stuck in ice and were all frozen solid. I was surprised and very thankful she was on our side. We both picked the frozen soldiers off, like slaughterfish in a barrel. After the soldiers were looted we started towards the entrance to the fort itself. We snuck inside and killed the sentry outside of the food hall. We could some voices inside. She notched an arrow and shot a cooking pot, making it spill on the ground. A man from the other side of the room was upset,

"You kidding me? We get shit for rations and then the cook spills it? How could be you be so dumb, was your mother a troll?"

Some other men laughed and the cook muttered something under his breath and went to pick up the pot. As he bent over to pick up the food, she shot him and his lifeless body flung into the fire. Before the men could register what happened we jumped in the room and started to take them out. After the cooking hall we went into the sleeping chambers. There were three soldiers there and we pulled out our knives and slit their throats. I motioned to her to check out the left room as I made my way to the Officers quarters.

I opened the door and an Officer was reading a book, The War of Two Minds, tainted the arrow I had with a paralysis poison and shot his calf. He let out a guttural moan and fell back into his chair. I tied him up and Netoria walked in.

"I am going to kill you, but I am going to make a message out of you." She was scary sometimes. She took a quill and stabbed his arms with it and wrote a note with his blood,

Loyalty Cost Lives

Choose Your Loyalty Wisely

-Dovahkiin

She is a force to be reckoned with! We looted the office. We found over 500 gold and some food. He was obviously living better than his troops. Greed gets men killed, a lesson he won't get the opportunity to contemplate. We set up a few traps near the entrance and went and made our beds in the Officer's office. I held the arrow on his forehead and Netoria shot it through. We moved his body outside and laid him down. We went back into the room and I grabbed his wine.

"Oh looky here! Some Argonian Bloodwine! This will go down rather quite well after today, don't you think?" Netoria smiled and she grabbed a silver goblet.

"If I didn't know any better, Thallon, I would say you were trying to impress me." She smiled and poured a glass, I smiled and poured my glass as well.

"To furthering our cause." I said raising my glass into the air,

"To Thallon's poor attempt at flattery!" She clanked my glass and started to drink. I laughed some and started to drink mine. I was growing ever more fond of her. The drink did go down rather smoothly and before I knew it we were pouring the last of the wine.