Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20141227022405/@comment-5583506-20141227065055

(Couldn't sleep so I will just post a quick update here and go back to bed and try again... :P)

It pounded as hard inside her head as if someone had placed a troupe of miners in there to dig for gold. However it was not the pain in her head that woke her up, but the naughty whistles of inmates in nearby cells. She realised that she must have reverted during her sleep and that it was her human self they were whistling at.

"Whoah there, doggie!" said an Orc prisoner and tried to reach out for her through the bars separating her cell from his. "I won't bite, but I got a real nice bone for you. Heh!"

She quickly got up on her knees and reached for a nearby blanket which she wrapped around her nude body. She guessed that the local guard must have had the courage to track her down and capture her.

The Orc's expression turned sour when he couldn't see what he wanted to see. "Fine then, bitch! Be that way!"

"Oh, shut up you!" she growled. "Where am I?"

He leaned back onto his bed and adjusted his pants, apparently they had turned awfully tight for him during the past few minutes. "In Morthal's prison, why? Is your owner coming to get you out? Heh!"

Fuck, she thought.

Her group... They couldn't realise... Not yet... If they knew that they had a lycanthrope in their midst would they still trust her? She didn't dare to take the risk, she needed to get out of here before they came looking for her and learnt the truth.

"I must get out of here!" she exclaimed stricken with panic.

"You aren't going anywhere, sweetness", purred a Khajiit from a neighbouring cell. "Now when you have showed Morthal's city guard just what a bad dog you are they are gonna want to examine you." The Khajiit traced a finger across his neck. "Probably kill you..."

"No!" she said sternly. "I am Valkyrie Ghost-Wolf of Clan Ghost-Wolf! My father was the renowned Bitvarg the Elder. They cannot execute me! I am nobility, by Talos!"

"A nobility who needs a leash then?" joked the Orc and put his arms behind his head. "Anyway, they probably just want to interrogate you and fine you, that's all. Or maybe they will just sweep that whole nobility thing under the carpet and have your pretty little head on a spike."

"You aren't exactly helping", growled Valkyrie.

"Well, take off that blanket and you will see just how helpful I can be, wolf-girl."

The two prisoners fell silent when the commander of the guard entered the holding cells. "So, you are awake? Good. Because you have or two things to explain to me, missy."

Valkyrie approached him by the cell door and held her blanket tightly around her. "I am a daughter of Clan Ghost-Wolf and I demand that you release me immediately!"

"Clan what-now?" shrugged the commander. "Listen, lady. I don't care if you are the bloody harlot of the High King himself. You are a werewolf, and that's all I am seeing in front of me now."

''I knew it. No one even remembers our name. At least not the younger generations. Was that ambush really that devastating?''

"What if I told you that I know lots of people who would vouch for my innocence?" said Valkyrie.

"Innocence? Of what? We have witnesses. Me, among them, saw you revert into human form right in this very cell. You are a lycanthrope and should be punished thereafter. It doesn't matter whether you are of royal blood or born underneath a farmstead somewhere. In the name of the law everyone is equal."

I like his dedication and that he holds his honour in such high regard, but I really need to get out of here.

"What do you want me to do then? Stop being... a werewolf? It's impossible! I was born this way! I will die this way! If you are going to charge me for being who I am, then I am gonna have to serve time! How does that sound in your book of law?"

He shook his head. "You got a fair point, but I can't risk you running lose her in Morthal and hurt innocents, you hear? I almost lost some of my men last night because of you. You damn nearly scratched one of them as well and the last thing we need are more werewolves!"

"Just tell me what you want and I will do it, just... get me out of here!"

He sighed and scratched his stubble. "We will do it like this. You can come out if you can pay a fine, as well as having some people that can serve as your... guardians? To make sure you do not turn. How does that sound?"

"That won't work! You see... these people I am with..." She lowered her head. "They do not know... yet..."

"What people? The newcomers in Moorside Inn? That's your friends?"

She nodded.

He sighed even higher this time and rubbed his forehead. "You lycanthropes always have to be such a fucking nuisance it is hurting my conscience. How about this: you pay a fine as usual, and when your friends come to collect you we will... make something up... to make sure they keep an eye on you. How's that?"

She nodded again. "Agreeable. But... what story will you make up?"

"Why do you care? As long as you don't get busted for being a werewolf?"

"Point taken", she mumbled.

"Good. Now stay here and I will send for a guard to Moorside Inn to inform your friends of your... situation here. But I trust that you will eventually tell your friends? Because if you are not you are not only endangering your own life but theirs as well."

As the commander headed out the door she sat down on her scrawny wooden bed. She was still nervous about how they were going to react finding her like this, combined with whatever story the commander would make up it could only destroy her otherwise stoic image.

"The commander is good folks", slurred the Orc. "He treats people fairly. I was about to get the head chopped off on the block by some townsfolk in the Reach for stealing. But as soon as he heard about some prisoner being held in custody in a nearby hold by simple farm people, he immediately sent an escort to bring me here. Didn't think beheading was justice. Heh! Neither did I. So now I am just doing my time here. Beats dying anyday."

"True", said the Khajiit in agreement.

Valkyrie just wanted to close her eyes and hope that this embarrassment would end as soon as possible.