That's right. I slapped a unicorn across the face, survived an encounter with a Dark Brotherhood assassin, hugged the unicorn, talked to a ghost, and received a power artifact...all because I passed our from eating shrooms. What, you don't believe me. I told you before I started this was a crazy but true story.
Anyway the next day was probable one our most depressing yet memorable days on Vvardenfell.
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Day 3 (Breakdown)
The day started as a quiet walk from the tomb to the road north of Pelagiad. Twilight was depressed to say the lest. The killing of our assailant did not bode well with her. Mainly because she was the one who killed him.
I on the other hand was thinking about how to cheer Twilight up. I may not have known her very long but something about her being sad made me upset. One thought was to giving her that ring I found. The ghost did say it would help her get home. But then the though of my prison life came to me. The sight of prisoners coming in with the hope they could escape and when they couldn't they became even more miserable then what they were coming in. I do not want to see Twilight like that. So until I could find our more about this ring I keep it hidden from her.
It was almost noon when we made it to the road north of Pelagiad. The flowers we were suppose to find were there. And after an hour of traveling down the road we had gathered most of what we needed. The last thing we needed to get were the blue petals of a Stoneflower.
We found the Stoneflowers next to a pond further up the road. However their was something else there. In the pond, splashing about with its tiny arms and huge head was a guar. In my ignorance I ignored the possible threat of the guar and went to pick the flower. Thinking if I didn't bother it it wouldn't bother me. I didn't make it far before I found myself unable to move and rapped in a purple light.
“What are you thinking!” Twilight hissed trying to remain quiet.
“Getting the flower.”
“What about that thing in the water, I...” Twilight started to say before her eyes started to water.
“Twilight are you alright?”
She finally broke down
“NO! I'm not alright! I'm trapped in another world! One of my wings have been torn off! I have no idea how I got here or how to get home. I'm at the complete mercy of strangers in a strange land...and...and...” she fell back on her hunches as the tears started to flow. The purple light around me faded as well.
“At first it was exciting.*snif* I got lost in the excitement of it all. *snif* New culture, creatures and even magics to learn about. But now after yesterday, I don't know anymore. *snif* I...I need my friends.” she cried as she pushed her face into her hooves.
That last word, friend. I remembered the ghost had called me Twilight's friend but I actually didn't know what a friend was at the time. And now Twilight was on the ground crying needing a friend. I was quiet for a moment trying to understand what Twilight had just said. I didn't actually understand what a friend was. However my attention was soon grabbed by a more interesting turn of events.
The guar had taken notice of Twilight's outburst. But it didn't charge us. Actually I didn't know what to expect of the creature at the time as I watched in walk up to Twilight. Twilight still was crying in her hooves and didn't notice the guar appropriating.
It was right on top of Twilight, she still hadn't notice it. Then it happened. Twilight became the victim of a guar's tongue. It was quite a site to see being that the gaur's tongue was half the size of Twilights body. If Twilight didn't notice it before she, did after the first lick the guar gave her.
Why the guar did what it did, I don't honestly know but they say that gaur are empathetic creatures. Maybe it felt sorry for Twilight and wanted to cheer her up. Maybe it felt like Twilight would be a good companion of sorts. What ever the reason was behind the guar's actions it got Twilight to smile again. After the fifth or so lick I could hear Twilight, and she sounded better.
“Stop” she said while trying to hold back the laughter. The guar surprisingly stopped at her command then laid down next to Twilight. It let out a howl or growl of some sort and twitched its head a few time. The howls were more excited then hostile tone to them.
We were both trying to figure out what the creature was doing. Whether this was normal for a guar or not we didn't know. Twilight however remembered why we were here in the first place.
“Get the flower.” she told me while keeping the creature occupied.
After getting the flower I turned to see that Twilight was now on top of the guar, riding it. How she was even staying on its back without sliding off was amazing to say the lest. Maybe it has something to do with her hooves. Come to think of it, I never did ask how she was able to pick things up with them.
We were now heading back to Balmora, Twilight riding on the back of a guar. I was walking next to it lost in thoughts, trying to wrap my mind around what happened back at the pond. However it didn't take long before Twilight started to talk.
“Sanjuro, I'm sorry for what happened back there. Its just that everything been happening kinda fast and the seriousness of my situation just caught up with me. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for sticking with me.”
“It was nothing. Besides your not the only one that was thrown into a strange land you know nothing about.”
She gave me a smile. “Your a good friend you know that.”
I stopped. The weight of her words hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to ask her a question that my mind just couldn't answerer on its own.
“Twilight...what does it mean to be a friend?”
Both Twilight and the guar stopped and looked at me. Both had the same surprised expressions on their faces. Looking at me like I was some kind of mindless twit.
“What, I never learned what a friend was back in the prison.”