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"We came here to bash their skulls in." Farkas said suddnely shfting and turnign again intot he huge black werewolf. Alea and Vilkas were soon after and there were characteristics all tree had to tell them apart. Farkas was naturally the alrgest in both size and muscle Aela beign female smaller and leaner her fur not as thick as the males. Vilkas was somewhat smaller in wolf form than his brother but his fur was thicker and less straggly.
Shifting had taken them all years to get used ot even adapt to. They all loooked at Zev, not as food, but in them waiting for him to join them. They were all packmates and they would hunt and kill as a pack.

"I should really rethnk were I stay from now on.' Sonja thaught well at least she hadnt taken to sleepign in his damned room! Thank Sithis! "Contracts yes but from Astrid not .. Mother." She had slowly gotten used to calling the Night Motehr simply Mother had first she felt odd if nto a tad out of palce but evnetually the titlebecame confroting. "Astrid has me going after a vampire, says night is the best time to hutn him." She snorted sense she had asked Bobette on advise, though feelign a tad awkard doign so, and Bobette said the best time in killing a vampire was day not night, obviously, but to always keep their hands and claws away form you.
"If I didn't know any better I'd say this was enteianl on her part." She muttered mor eot herself. Astrid hadn't hidden her dislike of Sonja's apparent appinted positon as Listerer, claiming she had been half mad and heairng things. Spending to much time with the Fool Astrid had called it and told her to ignore whatever she had heard, elidigly, in the coffin.

The Hunt had been glorious and bloody. It wans't considered vile to eat the bodies of the slain Silver Hand, feast on prey gave werewolves strength. They slaughtered them wihtout mercy and remorse along with reclaiming the stolen peices of Wuthrade that had been taken.
After reverting back from teh haze of the hunt all were bathed in blood and gore. "Your getting better." Farkas said lookign down at Zev who was kneeling after ocming out of his form, naked.The Redgaurd was wounded a bit as they all were but te beast blood gave them all a higher resistence. "Here." He said offering his hand to Zev to pull him up. Zev's nakedness wasn't a problem sense they had all had gone threw that at the early stages. "Your gettign better." He told him after he pulled him to is feet.
None of the Silver Hand would be missing their armor, assumign there was any that hadn't been shreaded.

"If I didn't know better I'd say your worried about me." Sonja replied with a firm smirk though there was nothign in it. Hoenslty she had never faced a vompire and she was proud to say it. Bobette had almsot looked like she felt osrry for her when she had told her of her lastest contract.
Sithis she was tired.
"I have osme ideas of how to deal wiht it sense I dobut sneaking up on them works as well.... magic mostlyis going to be my main. Fire saldy one of my weakest." She admitted in terms of destrution frost was her strongest fire her weakest, though latley it seemed her ability to call onflames was becomign much stonger.
'Relly on Oblivion and the Void for strength and you shall never know defeat.' Her mother told her that so long ago it felt like lifetimes ago, perhapes it had been,

"There all here and more inportnalty unharmed." Aela said from somehwere deeper in a room. 'They didn't even know how to put it back to together, figures." She was heard muttering.
"We cna head back than?" Farkas asked looking more at his borther, the hutn was done and he felt sated for now but the others, he worried for them. "Theothers shuldn't be left alone."
"Aye brother we'll be leaving." Vilkas reassured his brother while using a cloth he found near a fire to clean some of the blood off himself. "There will be songs tongith of this."

"Sonja coudl only give a small laugh though not a mocking one while placing her dagger next to her on the table and have her wrist a sound twist, fallowed back a crack. "I guess if I"m lucky I wont be made into a Thrall and simply eaten alive ont eh spot fi I screw this up.." She sihged she was stallign and she knew it, was it consdiered fearful and cowardly of an assassin to ask for bakcup on such a contract? The mill she needed to go to wasn't that far of a ride on horseback and still int he Falkreath hold boundries. [
'So I ******** this up they'll chase around the hold till I tire out and die unlessI can ge back here without them knowing it.' She thaught wiht some annoyance.
She just needed to get this over with.
"Well Cicero if I'm not back within tow hours or so that means I'm ead or a vampire thrall, or beign eatne so you might need a new Listner at that point." She joked only the dead serious look on his face made her re-think her choice of words. "Joking." She said as she turned and headed out.
'Night Mother please wathc over me.' She thaught despite herself.

All three members were staring at Zev in what ocudl best described as a new light, though an awkward new light. "You aet it's soul." Farkas said after what felt like an eternity had gone by in silance.
Aela and Vilkas were finding it hard to not disagree with Farkas's choce of words, as that was perhapes that best and simplest way of describing what just ahppened.
"Your.. Dragonborn." Vilkas said fianlly while they were all still with their weapons drawn the three Nords were mor ethan a bit awestruck and amazed.
Had she not seen it for herself Aela woudl have disagreed that a welp coudlnt' possibly ood such honor but .. there it was palne as day for her to behold and bare witness. "Just like the songs of old a Dragonborn comes to light the way int he times ofd darkness." She mused while looked at the bones of the collasle beast.
It was a creautr of perfect design in her mind.
"So .. how long you been a dragon?" Farkas asked makign the other two Nords look at him. "What?" He asked innocently.

Ph Sithis! Everything Burned! Everythign Hurt! Teh surprise attack from the female had not only tore her side open but left her so vonerable the bith had gottne her straight int eh face, their poisend claws and all. Her face was bleeding so badly she could barely seen and that was ading the posien and pain that was clouding her. She ha dcrawled away leaving a bloody trail with the female vampire crawling behind her, Sonja had been lucky enough to get her a few good times but not enough to kill her.
Cicero though she hadn't expected.
Her hands were clutching her face smearing the blood and shreads of skin as it was the only way to stop form bleeding out, and oddly enough her face owulnd was worst than the one on her side, and that was bleeding freely as well. She coudl hear the Tralls screaming and her blurred vision helped nothing. 'Oj Sithis my eye!' She thaught with fear sense the last thing her left eye saw was a vampric claw coming at it. She dint' even know where she dropped her dagger int he bloody fight but she was on the flor all but bleeding out barely able to see fi the vmapric thralls screamign and closing in on them. "She said htere was only one!" She spat out in a obvvious pain but it only made her sound more angery.

"A Dragonborn is said to have the body or a mortal the blood and soul of a dragon. Also they're the only one's that can permanelty kill a dragon so the sotries go." Vilkas said while looking at the now skeletol remans of the dragon. The beast was as big as the soties claimed it to be, large enough to swallow amn and horse in one gulp and fire hot enought o meltany metal to liquid. Those teeth and calws ... well that was a marvel evne without having to wintness them in action.
"Dragons haven't been seen for hundreds if not thausonds of years they dont' jsut .. pop up for no reaosn." Aela said while bending near one of the claws and seeming to hestitate if she wanted to touch it or not. Some part of her wondered if it may, chidleily enough, spring back to life to bite her. "Tiber Septim was the last Dragonborn and we all know how his legend went."

Infected or not everythign hurt and felt wet. The cloth felt liek it made thigns worse asthe rough fabric cause her wounds to scream in pain evne worse. The salve applied felt more like acid and fire than hoent to gods helaing. She barley registered in her pained haze Cicero litelry dragging her from the gorund as the enraged thralls regained sight of them and charged.
'My blood will give them a lovley trail and snake .. I hope they burn formt he inside's on it!'' She thaught venomly. She was beyond disorented and the fast movments formthe excape somewhat only registered ot her, she reconzied a saddle though she was pariclaly thrown on but she knew the gray mare as hers.
She'd give Cciero credit for beign able to move to fast for osmeone who claimed to be out of pratice and 'old'. 'There are no old assassins, there's smart, young, bold and dead. No old.'
Her preseption of time was ruined as well, she blamed deliriu for that. But she asusmed she had to have blacked out at some point sense she suddnely woke again throbbign int he face side and everywher in pain. Bobette was there working and removign bloody rags from her side, thoguh her own vision was cut in half. Reflexs that weren't her own suddnely grabbed hte unchild by the throat who halted immedalty and seemed to freeze and place a hand on Sonja's. "Your safe Sister. But hurt." She said soothingly, Sonja had ot remidn herself how old the girl really was. "Cicero borke you backa bloodied mess, Astrid was ready to flay him alvie saying he caused yoru injuries but wanted to know what happend form you." She spoke whiel the Breton realsed her grip.
"how bad?" She asked laying back down ont he bed only than realized most of her amro had been removed, and she felt Very uncofnrble forutanly Bobette was the only one curnelty present.
"You'll scar but you;ll live. Your not infected ehtier which is surpsing given how sevre the inuries were, but than infection is always a half and half." The vampire resumed dressign the woudn on her side. "I was able to stop you from losing your eye so you;ll still out of it, bu tit may be weaker tha what your used to .. the scaring wont by any means be subtle ether."

Week Later

Despite everything about the Silver Hand slaughtered and reclaiming their historic weapon peice, alogn with Zev beign revelaed as a Dragonborn. Thigns were more or less calm aroudn Jorvaskir. Apon returning the Circle seemed to want to just .. attmept some normacy as htey hadn't had an ounce of it formonths. Same ruetine more ore less for the last week it seemed. Wake up dink, brawl, do some work, drink, broawl, drink while brawlign and than pass out somewhere.
Kodlak and Scjor's funerals were fianly done apon their return and it put the remining members at eas knowing that they were in Savengarde, or Hercine's relm if you knew any better. Farkas felt akward sense Vilkas seemed off as of late even mentionign at times their blood revenge though nto unjustified was wrong to some extent. Revenge his borher said was never a good reaosn thoguh ti was powerful it never gave good results int he logn run. Farkas may have agreed if he coudl get his midn aorund what his brother was really thinking.
Though he noted Aela and Vlkas having more agruemtns as of late, that bohtered him.

She was helaign faster htan expect at least that was what Bobette had said. Though her scaring wasn't anythign pretty ot look apon Sonja knew that right off the bat. The scars had turned an ungodly black color, result of the posn Bobette had said but not infection at least. Haivng never put all tha tmuch sotkc in her appearnce before it was sitll a blow the first ime she looked at her face iwhtu a bandage when Bobette said she ocdl risk the open air. Her nroally deahtly pale white skin was marred by black and rd marks covering half her face one eye, the left one almsot looked discolor if she squitned hard enough. Astrid had demanded ot know wht happen and she told her and for all her claims of not likeing the idea of Listner she at pretended to be relived and worried.
'You''ll be trying harder next time we both know that.' She thaught as she glaned own at her raved side where more black and red scrs lined her torso and abodman, Cicero beign the sole reaosn she was sitll alvie and intake didnt' excape her. Beign indebtd with her life alwyas made her uncofnable but in the Brotherhood they were family thus family looked after etheir.
Nazir and the others gave her wodnerous praise for surviving with such minimle wounds, that they all knew was a feat.
Due to still recoveirng Bobette had told Astrid that Sonja needed to remin out of the feild for a time unelss her wounds reopened and did her in. Astrid consented syaing their newest sister ahd mor ehtna earned a small break. 'What are you pannning?' Seh wondered while redressign into her armor again. It hurt to mvoe any part of her but she'd be damned if she remined out of her now more than cofnrotnable armor for long even to rest.
That left Ciero.....
"Why did you fallow me?" She asked going to the Ngiht Motehr chambers and finding him tending to her. She had a right ot knwo and she disliekd being fallowed, depsite his ditmley arrival, when she hadn't been aware.

Farkas glanced around and seeing that no one was currenlty paying them any midn he felt no reaosn to ide it. "A cure. Kodlak was lookign into it before he died. Aela and Skjor don't belive a cure is needed but Kodlak wante dot be a Nord. voilkas is staring to think the same way. Aela ... doen'st os much." He admitted akwarldy sense he didn't like exalcyt sharing private matters in terms of other's opinons on sensitive topics.
This was about as sensitive as you could get.
"Vilkas said when werewolves die they dont' go to Savengard they go to Hercine's hutng groudns for all tetrintiy. Which means a Nord who's a werewofl isnt' considered a true Nord apon death but he said cures hard to fidn and evne harder to get. But tha't shwat Vilkas said not me." He downed the rest of his mead . The mead hall was empty mor eor less sense most members were outside training or out oding jobs. "The Circle was .. divided on matters concernign the beastblood."

'Good a reason as any for him I suppose.' Sonja hadn't been what she expected Cicero's reasoning to be, assumign he had one to begin with. Than again he saved her from being eaten or turned which she was thankful yet she felt annoyed that she had evne let herself get into such a sititon, she never ocnsdered herself invidnele in fact she countered her weakness as her storng point. "So you fallow me simply because you got worried than?" She asked sense part of her was sayign he had another reasons. She coudlnt place it simply because she coudlnt' place him as his moods and behaviors were erratic to put it simply.
The Night Mother's voice still sang in her mind about the contract. Compelled to investigate but she was in no condition to even travel let alone fend for herself at this time. She consdered breifly for a moetn askign Cciero to investigate the contract but no that didnt seem right.
'Your the Listenr you command.' He had said s why did she feel powerless and collared with a leash?
"The contact Mother ... gave us.... what do you think?" She asked no one had asked her about it's athetisity save for Cicero who accepted ehr words as truth and pressed no more. "At first I was tellign myself I was crazy but ... not so much anymore." She admitted.