Ahnaressu's Travels Ch. 7 Options

[Dantrag]

Forgot to post chapter 7 in this site i realized....here you go.

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Ahnaressu had been scouring the ashlands for weeks, hunting Valnor. The weeks of hunting proved to be unfruitful, leaving a very angry dunmer boy. Ahnaressu was devoid of all emotion in his hunt. Except anger. Familiar images, images that had never left him, filled his mind. He saw his mother dying, offering one last spell to destroy her enemies. He saw Valnor, the cruel dunmer who seemed so far away. He saw the survivors of the tribe, running for their lives, Ahnaressu still wasn't sure of their survival. What he saw most clearly was his future. And in it, he saw his revenge.

Valnor noted the move of the Urshilku tribe. He had seen the old site and the new. He marked the new position on his map for future reference, and continued his hunt for another army. Seeing another small camp, he made his way towards it, planning to give his well recited speech to whoever was in the camp.

Ahnaressu knew he was not himself. It was as if anger controlled his every step. Anger seemed to be a separate entity that took his body from time to time. Ahnaressu remembered the same thing happening during his fight in the Rat in the Pot. Ahnaressu need only to see Relgar to bring him back to reason. Without the baby boy, Ahnaressu believed, he would not have survived so far. Anger would have controlled him, devoured him. He would not lose himself in his anger. Or so he hoped.

An alit walked around, apperently searching for a meal. It found what it was looking for. A cave rat always cured an alit's hunger. The alit stalked silently (For an alit anyway!) on its two awkward legs.
The alit made a strange jump, catching the rat under its foot on the landing. Thinking it had a meal. The alit turned around, only to catch a dagger in the neck.

Nyph smiled at his own excellent marksmanship. Thinking of the meals he could cook with the alit he killed and the rat that was killed for him. The assassin skinned the two animals right there before taking their meat and the alit's hide back to the camp.

Nyph arrived at the camp to see four new mambers. The assassin politely offered them the alit hide, not needing it anyway.
"What a thoughtful gift." one of them said.
"It is my pleasure." Nyph said.
Nyph honestly liked nobody in the band other than Valnor, but he knew they were necessary for their mission. Therefore, he tried to make a sense of "friendliness" in the band, hoping for less deserters. His plan was working. Nyph Noted an unusual dunmer in the latest small group to join their cause. He was obviously not very strong, as a matter of fact, his body looked very frial, but his eyes glowed with an intensity Nyph had not seen in anyone but a certain young boy. Nyph told himself to meet him, but not now. There was food to eat right now. Nyph sat down by a nearby fire and slowly roasted his meat while sipping a bit of matze. Nyph liked nothing better than killing and relaxing. Killing being his favorite.

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Ahnaressu woke up and put his clothes on. After checking on his sleeping brother, he walked out of the temple for fresh air. Leaning against the temple wall, the young dunmer got lost in his thoughts. He thought it ironic that he would sleep in a temple of the Tribunal. The Tribunal, mere mortals who thought of themselves as something more. As his thoughts continued, he realized that he was guilty of the same sin. He had thought himself a god, the way he roamed the ashlands for revenge. He had thought that Valnor could not kill him, that his anger would somehow see him through the battle.
"What's wrong?" Trielle's daughter, Cali, asked.
Ahnaressu was startled, being thrust from his personal thoughts. "Nothing." Ahnaressu said.
It was obvious to Cali that he was hiding something, but didn't press the point. "Well if you need anything, my mother will be in the temple."
"And you will be where?" Ahnaressu asked, almost accusingly.
Cali merely walked away, but turned around to flash him a mischevious smile. "I'll be around."
Ahnaressu watched her go before walking back into the temple to get his brother.

Ahnaressu put Relgar down and sat down beside the toddler, and began playing with him. It wasn't long before Relgar decided to take another nap, and Ahnaressu took the time alone to lie down with his head propped up on a rock. He fell back into his thoughts. He was scared, he realized, scared to lose his brother. That was why Relgar could calm his anger, that was why he could not bring himself to give him up, even though he had just found a person to take care of him. Ahnaressu sighed, life was so much easier when his family consisted of more than two people. He slowly stood up, grabbed his sleping brother and went back to the temple to get his things.

Nibani sat in her recently constructed yurt, thinking of the visions she had. She wondered how Ahnaressu could help after the danger was over. Maesa used her magic to find out that the same force that assaulted the Urshilaku had been obliterated by the warriors of the Erabenimsun. She had not had a vision since, but did not know why she had it in the first place - her visions had never proved wrong before. It worried her, but not enough to keep her from sleep.

Ahnaressu wondered if he was being rude to leave without telling Trielle and Cali goodbye, but didn't want to be talked out of leaving. He was walking out the temple door with his pack and Relgar in hand when Cali popped in front of him.
"Leaving so soon?" Cali asked, genuinely worried.
"I have to." Ahnaressu answered.
"Why?" Cali asked.
Ahnaressu had no answer, so he was relieved when Trielle walked up. Before he could even say "hello," or even "farewell," Trielle asked him to travel with them to the next shrine, located at the Fields of Kummu.
Ahnaressu had no idea where he was going anyway, and decided to go. "I would be glad to." Ahnaressu said.
"I see you are already packed," Trielle said. "but Cali and I are not. we will not be long."

It was less than an hour before they were on their way. Ahnaressu had no idea why Trielle would invite him to go with them because a thirteen year old boy was not exactly ideal protection, no matter how good of a fighter he was. Ahnaressu still wondered what he was going to do - Relgar's life demanded his attention, but so did his need for vengeance.