Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24141785-20150606215453/@comment-12599067-20150607044915

"I still can't believe they're just handing out all this food to anyone who shows up. I mean, where do they get it all, and why don't they use it for something really useful? You'd think they'd be more concerned with feeding their soldiers than holding feasts back home," Vienelle noted as she took another moment to look at the flyer as they walked, flipping it over as if expecting to find some grand revelation on the other side of the paper.

"It's free food. I wouldn't think too much on it," her travelling companion answered, keeping his eyes straight ahead in search of the inn.

"But surely those soldiers must be hungry, right? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying what they do is right, but..."

"That's Empire for you, Viene. Frankly it's hard to believe that anyone in the Empire even cares what happens outside of Cyrodiil these days," he answered. "So long as they're happy on the homefront, it hardly matters to them."

There was a long moment of silence between the two of them as they walked through the streets side by side, Vie furrowing her brow as she shifted her attention from the paper to the cobblestone street and her travelling companion keeping his eyes on the signs up ahead.

Finally, the silence was broken when the armored giant next to Vie sighed and looked over to her with what looked like a degree of sympathy.

"Look, sister. I wouldn't think too hard on it," he said simply. "They signed up to protect their Empire and they're trained very well for that. Even if the Emperor is a complete fool, his Legion does their job just fine. It won't be easy, but most of them will be fine in the end."

Another long moment of silence as the small woman's travelling companion looked at her with a degree of worry while she kept her eyes on the ground, silently contemplating what the armored giant walking next to her had said.

"Yeah, I suppose that's true," Vienelle said finally, turning her attention to her travelling companion. "Thanks for that, Shan."

"Mm," the massive Argonian nodded, turning his attention back to the signs up ahead just as they rounded the next corner. "Look, the inn's just ahead. I'll rent us a room so we have somewhere to stagger back to when we're drunk, yes?"

"Yeah, yeah, alright," the petite Breton woman answered with a quiet chuckle, surrendering her knapsack to the behemoth before he walked up to the door and wordlessly stepped into the inn, leaving Viene to herself outside the inn.

Without another word, Vienelle took up a spot leaning against the inn's wall, not far away from a tall Nordic swordswoman and some grumpy-looking Nordic man smoking a pipe.