Konrad rode ahead of the party, weaving in between the houses and objects lying around. On seeing a familiar sign he stopped, looking up at it. It was the sign of his father's blade academy. A tear rolled down his face, but he wiped it off with his grubby and unwashed sleeve then made his way back to the group. He kept his head down as he fell in behind the moaning Sel, staring at the dagger he was given. "This is an enemy's dagger, and I am unsure wethere I should be handling it..."

Niran decided to stop and allow them to go on ahead. They would clear the way for him unknowingly, and he would follow without any trouble from beast or monsters. He hid and waited for them.

As they rode along, Jonacin saw the tracks of another horse and rider. He looked carefully about, and saw the stranger from the inn hiding nearby. "Why are you hiding over there young man?" he called out to him

[quote=LoneWolf]As they rode along, Jonacin saw the tracks of another horse and rider. He looked carefully about, and saw the stranger from the inn hiding nearby. "Why are you hiding over there young man?" he called out to him[/quote]

(Great. I was unprepared)

Niran, turning away, pretended he hadnt heard him. He busied himself with his horse.

Serene caught up with Jonacin..

"What is it Jona?" she asked, " is someone spying on us or what?"

Sel

Sel saw what had happened. "Don't worry about it Jonacin." Sel said. "It's his business if he wants to be alone. And if he turns out to be a threat, the odds are in our favor."

[quote=Dantrag]Sel

Sel saw what had happened. "Don't worry about it Jonacin." Sel said. "It's his business if he wants to be alone. And if he turns out to be a threat, the odds are in our favor."[/quote]

Hearing this, Niran smiled to himself and thought
"They have no idea."

Shakur rode his horse at a gentle trot and rode around the group, as if herding sheep. "I hate it when people ignore you as if they were a god. And even a god of terror wouldn't be that ignorant" Shakur looked in the direction of the hiding man. "You! Come out here and show your manners! I have not gone through hell and high waters for some man to act as if I don't exist!" Shakur said his words cleanly with no slurs and boomed his voice, his angry words were almost poetic. The party was lucky he wasn't a toung when his voice would bellow.

At these words Niran turned, his face full of anger

"What you have gone through is nothing!" He said

Shakur noticed the combination of sadness and anger in the stranger's voice. "I am very sorry for my anger, but I have been in a lot of danger and may very well be heading head first into even more. Please, come out here and we can talk peacefully without anger".

Cautiously, Narin, stepped out from his hiding place, and came within feet from the stranger. Keeping his eyes on him, and his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Konrad steered his horse around the back of the man, drawing his sword and twirling it around his hand. "No funny business please sir...take your hand off your sword." He said it with an authority unbefitting of one so young. He brushed his hair out of his eyes and paced his way in an arc around the man.

[quote=Konradude]Konrad steered his horse around the back of the man, drawing his sword and twirling it around his hand. "No funny business please sir...take your hand off your sword." He said it with an authority unbefitting of one so young. He brushed his hair out of his eyes and paced his way in an arc around the man.[/quote]

Diving and rolling under Konrads horse, he came on the other side out of reach of his sword. Niran unsheathed his own sword.

"If you want to assert superiorty over me, you must do it in a fight. I do not listen to those I dont know."

Serene watched with fear as Konrad and Shakur approached the young boy..she felt sick, as always when it came to the risk of a fight

"Jonacin please stop it" she said in a low voice, "think at least about Celia, she shouldn´t see things like that"

"Konrad" Jonacin said sharply to the boy "threatening him is not a good way to get anything done. Now put your damn sword away and leave him alone. You need to stop always thinking with your sword". Knrad was beginning to irritate Jonacin. He was always surly and always though with his sword. At this rate he was going to get himself, or all of them, in a lot of trouble

Konrad sighed, shaking his head and sheathign his sword. He turned his back, and horse, on the man and rode back to the party. " I have no wish to fight you sir...though I dare to say it would be a nice warm up for say....a cliffracer." Konrad liked psychological warfare the most, and found it a way to weaken his opponents in mind therefore in body.

Niran, did not sheath his sword but he lowered it, unwilling to approach the strangers once more.

C´mon now, we have to get going Serene said, listen to Jonacin now Konrad we don´t need no fights amongs us...

She led her horse up at Jonacin´s side.....

"Konrad, i'm warning you, if you try to incite any more fights, i'm going to thrash you. We have enough to worry about without you causing even more trouble for us all" Jonacin said, a hard edge to his voice.

OOC: I have to go now, i might be back tomorrow but i don't know.

"That's right be on your way, I wish to have no more interaction with you."
Niran said, though he wasn't sure if he really meant it.

Konrad sighed, seing he was fighting a losing battle. "I see you have no idea on what sheathing your sword represents Jonacin." He troted around the group, his eyes locked on the stranger.

Feeling hostility towards himself, Niran brought his sword up.

Konrad put up his hands to the group. "I didn't set him off!"

[quote=Konradude]Konrad put up his hands to the group. "I didn't set him off!"[/quote]

"It's not you, I feel we are being watched. Ride carefully these next few miles, and be wary of anything disturbing."

Niran, didnt just feel it, he knew it. They were not following the group, but they were following him. He did not want to bring others into his problem.

"Is this certain, or are you coaxing us into a friendship? Also, I am sorry about my comrades, they are quick to violence and obviously don't understand that walking into a group of armed men is intimidating"

[quote=Red]"Is this certain, or are you coaxing us into a friendship? Also, I am sorry about my comrades, they are quick to violence and obviously don't understand that walking into a group of armed men is intimidating"[/quote]

Niran sighed, another thing he did not like about other people, a lack of trust.
This was a reason he did not get along well with others.

"You can choose to believe me, or you can go on your way, unprepared."

Konrad rode up next to Shakur. "Don't forget women, they can be very intimidating as well." He laughed kicking into his horse and speeding a few times up and down the track they were on.

"Well, if we are riding into danger, you can come with us for a while, but don't expect much love from this group"

[quote=Red]"Well, if we are riding into danger, you can come with us for a while, but don't expect much love from this group"[/quote]

"Love? Why would I expect love, none has been shown to me in the past. I have no friends, nor do I plan on making any." His eyes wandered from one group member to the other, and he felt different inside. For all their eyes showed kindness, not the hatred he was so used to. "I will come with you, but allowing me to follow puts you and your friends at risk. I am running from an enemy and he will follow us and kill us if he gets the chance too. I offer you little skills as a swordsman, but I will fight to defend the group as well as I can." He hoped that the rest of them would except him as a group member.

Turning to Serene he said:

"I must apologise for the rude statement I made at the inn, seeing you cry made me feel as if I had commited a terrible wrongdoing. You were only showing me kindness, something I do not yet understand. You must understand that the times are hard for everyone, I have lived with very little all my life. But I do not wish to discuss myself now, for we have a task ahead, a long one." As he said this he tried to stare directly at her eyes, but found it hard to do so.

He liked being able to say we, it made him feel secure. Now that he was part of a group he felt the need to express himself, though he was not sure how to do so. He still didnt know anyone from this group well enough. But he sighed because he knew that had been the case all his life.

Turning away from them, he climbed his horse and sat in the saddle. He brought his horse around to face behind the rest of the group, it was several feet away from the last horse in the group.

(okay, time for an update on his past, just a tidbit: basically, the person thats following him is an assasin. And if you guys role play while I'm logged off, just pretend Niran is following you around. He doesnt talk much anyway.)

Sel

Sel watched the spectacle in silence, his input on the subject would not be appreciated by any of the group. He would have suggested leaving the strange man behind. He did not trust him, mainly because of his previous actions.

When he saw Konrad's actions, he was reminded of himself at that age - would fight anything anywhere...even if he would lose. He almost felt proud of the boy, yet Sel would never tell the boy, lest he get even sillier ideas than fighting such an obviously strong warrior like Niran.

Even though Sel did not trust Niran, that did not mean that he wouldn't give the man a second, or even a third, chance. He slowed his horse down until he was trotting easily beside Niran behind everyone else.

"So, what exactly do you have chasing us, and how did it happen?" Sel asked in an attempt to know the man better.

Arco has been silent as always and rode up by Sel's side... Arco wasn't sure if there were anything good in letting Niran into this group, its enough danger already.

"Well I dont know about you others... But I really want to get going, with all this danger I doubt we have time for this chatting" Arco said looking around in the group..

Konrad unpacked his leather bag and searched inside it ferverently. Upon finding his water container he drank heartily, waiting by the roadside for everyone. "I fear a great evil is descending upon us. I feel the winds changing their tone." He looked east, shading his eyes from the sun. "We have a long trek, and I do not doubt there will be many dangers. We must proceed quickly...we may outrun some." He turned his horse around, falling in in the middle of the group. "I am beggining to feel like the when I was with the refugees, a defenceless huddle. We must keep sharp eyes for te rest of today, and set up a watch tonight."

"Well, then let's move. If we are too anxious to get attacked we should leave this rock" Shakur started his horse into a jog, hoping the others would do the same.

(OOC: I may not respond too much today, because of family trip later on in later afternoon...)

Glancing around quickly, Celia nodded. "Konrad and the others are right: we really should be going!" She shivered. "Assassins, I hate 'em! I'd rather get chased by those demons again..." She ran back towards the city. "Let me get a horse real quick..."

She had then managed to bribe a man for one of his spare horses with for several gold pieces, as well as buying some food and ingredients and healing potions. "Just in case," she thought to herself.

By the time she rode back to the group, they had advanced much further than before. She galloped after Shakur, who seemed to be more ahead of the group. "Hey, when will we know how close we are to Morrowind? Is there a sign or a river or mountain range or something?"

OOC: Got ahold of a computer did you?

IC: "We'll be going north-east of here until we meet the Velothi montains. we will then trek north to the far reaches of the mountains where they descend into the great city of Blacklight. Then we can get a nice boat to Khuul and then take the short walk to Gnisis and then Ald'ruhn. Unless anyone has any objections" Shakur said to Celia. "It sounds confusing, but the only amazingly hard part is the mountains, where if we go to high, we'll die from lack of air. And believe my dead guide Roland, passing out and falling down the summit isn't very fun".

OOC: Don't ask her a question noww!!!! She'll take the whole of the weekend to write her post then.

Arco started to get reminded of his past job as a assassin in his old tribe. He was one of the most skilled assassin in the Grazelands and east side of Vvardenfell, if there were a assassin after one in the group Arco would notice... He was only glad no one knew, he rode up to Jonacin, Serene, Celia and the others...

"It has taken to long with this talk, lets go" Arco demanded and grined before starting riding off...

"I'll tell you when we are in Morrowind Celia..." Arco added...

"Another good way to know you're in Morrowind is when a Dunmer calls you s'wit and runs at you with a dagger" Shakur joked.

Arco laughed as he heard Shakur...

"Or if you're called a outlander..." He said laughing... "I really think you will notice when we are crossing over to Morrowind Celia.."

Celia shrugged. "I remember the hostility. After all, I've been chased out by some sour Bug-Dunmer-Hybrid monsterthings." She shivered. "And I've also been chased out of the Gateway Inn by a ghost... Really wierd..." She paused. "But interesting, I guess."

She squinted her eyes, trying to look beyond the horizon as they rode. "Hey, I see something in the distance..."

Konrad searched the landscape in the direction Ceklia was looking. "I see nothing, I'll go closer...." He kicked his horse and went ahead of everybody, checking to see what Celia did see-saw.

Arco swiftly grabbed one of his scimitars, only for safty. He rode off hard up to Konrad's side as he scanned over. He could see something but, it was to unclear...

"Damn eye!" Arco said as he held over his left eye...

"what is it, what do you see?" Niran asked?

Arco rode closer... It soon appeared to be a crowd, it soon followed with cries from women and men. He soon managed to see it was bandits. Arco drew his two scimitars and kicked off charging ahead, the fight was almost three hundred feet away but the horse ran fast...

Arco didn't even have time to say what it was before he leaped off his horse a few feets away from the bandits, it was around twenty as he could see surrounding a little group of refugees...

"A little unfair isn't it...? Gather ten more and attack me, then we are nearing what we can call fair" Arco cried out at the bandits intimidating them...

Arco was combat ready, stay a little low with both his body and scimitars. One of bandits started reaching for his crossbow on his hip and the others soon locked onto the Dunmer.

Sel

Sel saw the bandits and immediately jumped off his horse and drew his sword and dagger. He ran towards Arco, and stood beside him. He threw his dagger at the man with the crossbow, and he fell with a dager protruding from his face. Sel gripped his sword hilt in both hands.

"I hope no one else has a crossbow." Sel said dryly.

Seeing the trouble, Niran rode up, his sword drawn.

"Well well well," he said as he dismounted

(I didnt see it because my connection was going slow and I was writing this post)

Konrad charged past, his sword kept low and slicing through two heads....only one of them being a bandits. "Bugger!" konrad cried out, turning arounbd the fine beast. Leaping off forwards he rolled and sliced away the feet of another bandit, then stabbed yet another in the back of the neck. Looking around he saw the rest of the bandits fleeing...saving their own skins.

As the bandits fled Niran took the crossbow from a dead one and fired at them.

Arco went up to Niran and grabbed his bolt before he could send of a second one...

"Enough... Those poor souls wont turn back" Arco said slowly pushing Niran's crossbow point down against the road before he ran up to one of the women that had been savagly beaten. They had just comed in time, they were all alive, thought the bandits had gotten what they were out for...

Arco stepped back looked out after the bandits and cursed them. He took out his sack and the food he bought from the Inn. He gave it to the woman giving her instructions to give some to all before he went up and back on his horse...

"I see most you want to shed blood...?" Arco looked at Sel, Niran and Konrad... "I hope for them, that they were acting in share confusion and possible scared after the attack" Arco said before he rode off again...

OOC: Nearly all alive Arco...I killed one.

Konrad wiped the blood off his dagger onto his jerkin, jumping onto his horse again. Stroking its head, he followed Arco back to the group, smiling at everyone and falling in line.