Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-27025277-20161129155225/@comment-7203512-20161214150710

The kid kept sitting on the hollow trunk, staring into the woods. A lone axeman strolled through the clearing a couple of meters away, his jolly whistle piercing through the serenity around Calder. The man stopped by the oldest of oak trees to perch on, taking notice of the boy.

"Eh?" the woodcutter uttered in an awkward, if a bit unintentionally threatening, fashion, "You lad! Whatcha doin' in these woods, sittin' like dat? Dam' bears gon' eat ya up quick, ya hear me boy?"

Calder just sat there, and only an occasional blink would tell him apart from the likes of those poor souls paralyzed by evil wizards.

"Lad? Ya livin'?" the man asked, popping a bottle of mead open and taking a greedy sip, "Eh, I'm talkin' to ya here!" he waved as he started slowly approaching Calder.

The latter pulled out a crumpled piece of paper, presumably torn off an incantation scroll by the looks of it, and a shard of charcoal. He then got down on his knees and started carefully dashing off what appeared to be several squares. He proceeded to jot down the triangles on tops, resembling huts upon a closer inspection. Calder then silently slid it aside towards the axeman.

"Y- ya lookin' for a village, eh boy?" the man replied, a bit unsure of what Calder meant by such an awkward introduction. The lad put his charcoal in the satchel.

"A village, boy." he repeated, loudly with a faint Dunmeri accent.

"Village it is then, right..." the axeman changed his tune, his voice giving off a slight hint of hesitation, "...Ivarstead?"

"I-var-stead." Calder repeated as loudly, breaking the hamlet's name into syllables.

"It's, err, down that road." the man pointed south. Calder turned his head indifferently to examine the man's hand.

"Lad, ya okay?'

"Okay." Calder responded in the same manner as he kept staring at the hand. He then slowly stood up, slouching, his arms close to torso, as he walked down the road towards Ivarstead. "Okay." he yelled one more time.