Dmitri and Katia

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I wrote another fanfiction. It’s pretty porny, though most details are left to your imagination. Which is probably far smuttier than anything I could dream up. Anyway, read if you wish. It’s about the night Dmitri and Katia spent together. There’s some things that don’t quite jibe with the known facts, but I think most work okay.

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“Fucking guard duty. Goddammit, we’re necromancers! We should have some skeletons or something do this for us,” he thought as the night came on in earnest. “Besides, what the hell am I going to do if something dangerous comes along? Throw poison at it? This is stupid.”

Dmitri sat down and thought about his life. He’d been doing that a lot lately. He’d been staying here with the other Necromancers ever since they’d been evicted from yet another Mage Guild. Things were really getting tough for his chosen profession these days. He remembered back when he was a young, gangly teenager in mage school, it seemed like such a cool thing to do too. He’d even dyed his black hair blacker and put on eye-shadow back then.

“What could be more cool than being a Necro?”, he’d said to himself.

And, let’s face it, he hadn’t exactly been the most popular kid in school. Aside from the bigger kids picking on him, and the girls ignoring him or worse, it surely couldn’t hurt he’d figured. So he put on black robes (cool), studied hard (not cool) and joined the Necro clique. While it didn’t help with the girls, it definitely reduced the bullying by the bigger kids. Unfortunately he soon found he’d exchanged one set of bullies for another. But somehow he fit in well enough, finding his own niche in the clan. He still didn’t get any girls though. Which was a real pity too. He’d written some fiction and found he had quite an imagination for various… scenarios. Good thing he’d come up with his own secret code for his stories. His Necro-mates would have never let it go had they read them, but when inevitably they did find them, instead they were impressed by his knowledge of ‘Draconic’. It was also a good thing no one knew Draconic well enough to realize it wasn’t.

But now, years later, here he was, standing guard outside these crypts. He had managed to rise to a decent level in the group at least. He was a middling mage, but that was okay. He was too good to kill but not good enough to attract attention. It suited him, really. But it also made it tough to get out of stupid duties like this. Worst of all, he was still a virgin. That stung. He had such an imagination in that department, but by now he’d realized that it was probably the reason he’d never gotten laid. The few times he’d actually talked to a girl, he would start stammering until he’d get so tongue-tied he would just clam up. And he knew why. His imagination would stray to what lay under her clothing, and that would get in the way of him seeing her as another actual person.

Intellectually he knew all this, but it didn’t change anything. He would die an old virgin, he knew, and his own overactive imagination was to blame. But he still had hope even then. If he could ever get enough power to become a Lich upon his death, then he’d get all the girls! Lich lords were really cool!

Then he heard an unusual sound approaching from far away. A steady thump, as of someone running. Or something. The light from the torch was meager at best, and the moon happened to be behind a cloud. He saw nothing, but the sound was getting closer. And then she yelled at him.

“PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIS!”

“What?! Land? I thought you were down…”

“PEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS!”

That voice didn’t sound like Landorumil actually, he thought. It sounded more like…

And suddenly she was on him. She hit him like a ton of bricks, knocking him back against the wall and toppling the torch to the ground. A cat. A goddamned khajiit gone crazy. He tried to fend her off as best he could, having had no time to prepare any sort of spell. She seemed to be clawing at his robe! Fortunately she was a light little thing. He gave a good shove and she fell back to the ground.

Immediately he chanted a quick summoning spell and his favorite skeleton appeared in a flash.

“Hold her,” he commanded, and the skeleton obeyed, picking the scrawny khajiit up off the ground while she flailed at it.

“What the hell are you on about khajiit?” he asked, putting the torch back in it’s sconce. “Are you trying to get yourself killed?”

Then he turned back around and saw her clearly for the first time. "Oh my!”

“PENIS!” she said, starting to calm down a little. “You have a penis, right?”

“Um… yeeeees.”

“Please, mister, you’ve got to let me have it! It’s my specialty! I’m good at penises!”

Dmitri looked around. Apparently no one had heard the commotion. That was good at least. Then he turned back to the little khajiit. She’d stopped struggling and was now just dangling from the skeleton’s hand as it held her by the scruff of her neck. She was kind of cute, actually. Dmitri had always loved cats. He kept quite a few around the crypts, having convinced the Powers that Be that they would be good to keep the rats at bay. He’d seen a few khajiits in his life, of course, but never up close. They didn’t tend to hang around Mages Guilds.

“Calm down… Now before we start talking about my penis, how about a little introduction? What’s your name, khajiit?”

“Penis?”

“No. That’s part of my body. What’s your name?”

“Pas… No. NO, that’s not my name anymore. I’m… Katia Managan. Katia FUCKING Managan, and it’s my middle name!”

“Katia Managan. Okay, we’re making progress. What are you doing here, Miss Managan?” Dmitri asked as he looked her over. She smelled faintly of dust and wine, though surely not enough to be this drunk.“

"I broke em. I dropped them all.”

“You’re not making sense, Miss Managan.”

“I can’t make anything. I can’t make a fucking sign.”

“What’s wrong with you? Are you drunk?” Dmitri asked. She was certainly exhibiting all the signs.

“Drunk? Where?”

“Look. If I have Bones here set you back down, will you promise not to attack my robe again?”

“Bonerman! Well, I’m hornully awf. But if you say so. Say, you got anywhere we can be alone?”

“We are alone, Miss Managan.”

“No, I mean alone from you. Just me and Mr. Bonerman!”

“Set her down, Bones.”

The skeleton dutifully did it’s master’s bidding. Dmitri prepared for anything, but the khajiit woman fell to her knees and turned around to face the skeleton’s pelvis.

“Lies and Deceit! You got no boner Bonerman!”

“Miss Managan, maybe I should take you home. Can you tell me where you live?”

The khajiit had rolled on her back and was looking up between the skeleton’s legs and scratching it as if looking for something. Suddenly she started to cry. “I don’t live anywhere. I’m homeless. But my friend in Anvil…”

“Anvil. Okay. That’s not far. Come on, get up. Let’s get you into the cart…”

With that, Dmitri picked up the scrawny khajiit bodily and carried her to the nearby stable. She wasn’t heavy, but she was… warm. Bothersomely warm.

“Now you just wait here, I’ll be back in a minute, then I’ll take you to your friend’s house. Okay?” Dmitri asked.

“Oh! Sure! She’s got a great bed. You can rock me all night!”

Dmitri cringed. Cute as hell, but a bit much for him to handle alone he suspected. “Bones, keep her here. And keep her quiet!”

The skeleton sat on the khajiit’s head. Dmitri was about to protest when he heard her start to moan.

“Oh yeah! Give me that tailbone Mr. Bonerman!”

Dmitri blinked, then went in search of Landorumil down in the crypts. Both returned to the doorway a short time later, his ‘friend’ complaining.

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“Okay, but you better be back before the boss gets wind of this.”

“Look, it’s just a few miles away. I’ll be back before dawn easy. Your shift was supposed to start in an hour anyway.”

“What the hell do you have to do in Anvil anyway?”

“Just have an errand to run. Thanks Land. I owe you one.”

“One HOUR!” he said as Dmitri walked back to the stable. Katia was busy sucking on the skeleton’s toes so he hitched a horse to the cart quickly and started off. Unfortunately, just as they were pulling away, Katia happened to look up and waved to Landorumil.

“Hi dude! Wanna fuck?” she called.

“What the hell?” Dmitri heard him yell, but he ignored the shouts and got the horse up to speed as he pulled out onto the path.

“BRING HER BACK!” he heard Landorumil shout, but then he was safely out of earshot.

“Aww. You’re no fun,” Katia pouted.

“Am so. I just… three’s a crowd.”

The khajiit climbed out of the cart and onto the seat beside him.

“What do you mean? Three’s fine! Three’s a PARTY!”

“Look, let’s just get you home, alright?”

Katia turned instantly morose again. “Don’t have a home. I’m a loser. Say, what’s your name again?”

“Dmitri. Glad to meet you. How’d you manage to get all the way out here drunk anyway?”

She lay down on the bench, her head in his lap, which was far more contact than he felt comfortable with.

“Demeter. Say Demeter, you got a penis under here?”

“Dammit Katia, leave my robes alone!”

“Oh! You do have one! Did I tell you, they’re my specialty?”

“Yes, Katia. You told me. Now leave me alone, please!”

“Told you. You’re no fun.”

“Look, we can have fun when we get you back, okay?”

That seemed to satisfy her, for a little bit anyway. “Found some wine in some crypt or something. It was good! Say, wanna see something?”

“Not yet.”

“Look at this! See this?”

She pulled open her blouse. Literally. Buttons flew and were lost on the path behind them.

“Check it out. I got underwear!”

Before he knew what he was doing, Dmitri looked. Brown bra. But then she took his hand and pressed it to a breast.

“Paint! Isn’t it the best idea? I thought it was the best idea.”

He yanked his hand away, but the damage was done. He tried to think of his grandmother.

“It was stupid,” she said, laying back on his lap, but he couldn’t help but notice her blouse remained awfully open.

“I’m a failure, Demeter. Everything I do is stupid. The only thing I know how to do is penises, and that’s too easy.”

“Oh, I’m sure you can do something else.”

The khajiit sat up and looked at him. He looked at her breasts.

“How do you spell Merchandise?” she asked.

“Merchandise?”

“Yeah! How do you spell it?”

“M E R C H A N D I S E”

“You sure I can’t play with your penis?” she asked, her eyes tearing up again.

“No!”

“You’d like it. I can’t spell, but I can do that.”

She put her head back in his lap, but face down this time, nuzzling for it.

“AAAAAAAAA!” he screamed as the cart hit a bump, sending a tooth home.

“Oh! Sorry,” she apologized sitting back up.

“Katia, look. It’s not that I’m not interested, believe me! But… can I be honest with you?”

She lay her head back on his lap again, sighing but at least keeping her muzzle towards the stars this time. “Not into cats. I know. I’ve heard it before. You should have seen me a few months ago! I was all skin! Not a stitch of fur! You’d have liked me then.”

“What? No. Actually, I love cats. But Katia… I’m a virgin.”

“You like boys?”

“NO Katia. I like women! I just… haven’t ever…”

“What?”

“Katia, I’ve never had sex.”

She stared up at him, uncomprehending. “What?”

“I’ve never done it. Until a few minutes ago, I could honestly say I’ve never even touched a woman.”

She snickered. “You still haven’t. You touched paint.”

“Good point.”

“Does it work?”

“Does what work?”

“Your penis. Does it work?”

Now it was Dmitri’s turn to be confused. “Yes it works. Why?”

“How do you know if you’ve never had sex?”

Dmitri’s dark skin let him blush without others noticing. That was one small advantage of being his race. It served him well now.

“Just… trust me, okay? It works.”

“Do you want to be a virgin?”

“Not really.”

“Then… why not?”

“Jeeze Katia, not here. On the road? What are you, some kind of slut?”

“Yup! That’s me. Slutcat. I’ve been called that before. Sometimes I’m a slut. When I’m drunk. When I’m not, I’m a lot… different.”

“You know, you don’t talk like you’re drunk anymore.”

“Oh, trust me. I’m drunk. Drunky and Horn. Do you know, I won’t even remember you when I wake up? I never do.”

“Blackout drunk? Jeeze Katia, how is that even possible? There’s no way you’re that drunk.”

The swaying of the cart and the warmth of her head was beginning to bother him even more. But he tried his best to ignore it. She was awfully pretty though. And that blouse was still open.

She sighed, “You know, after one night my parents sent me to a specialist. He cast some sort of spell on me. Had me watch this medallion. Back and forth, back and forth. When I woke up, he said it wasn’t because I was drunk. He said I have a deep problem with my inadequacy. He said when I get drunk, my personality changes to a slut. He said it’s just an excuse, and that I do it to prove to myself that I have some value. He said that the only thing I am confident of is my sex, and that I use it as a crutch to carry on when I’m normal. He said I keep it as a way to stay confident even though my best attempts to be of any value are worse than mediocre. Well no, maybe I said that.”

“That’s… awful,” Dmitri said. But he was remembering what that breast felt like.

“And…” she paused. “he said it’s the only way I can feel someone else likes me.”

“Now that’s not true. What about your friend?”

They were nearing the outskirts of Anvil when Katia began to cry again. “She’s wonderful. She’s a writer, did you know? I bet she never misspells anything!”

“Probably not. It’s an easy word,” he said

“What?”

“Nevermind,” Dmitri said and started stroked her head, trying his best not to look further down, but failing.

“It’s okay Katia. Everybody is better at somethings than others. It’s no reason to be ashamed of yourself.”

“I’m better at penises.”

“Well, that’s still something, isn’t it?”

“She doesn’t even like em.”

“What?”

“Quill-Weave. She likes other girls.”

“Quill-Weave. Odd name.”

“Argonian. She’s nice. She gave me a hug once. It was awkward.”

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“Where does she live?”

Katia sat up and looked around. “Over there. Down that street. But she won’t be home. She’ll be at the bar.”

A few minutes later and they stopped, Dmitri guiding the horse to the alley beside the house.

“Well, here you go Katia,” Dmitri said.

“Not gonna happen, Demeter,” she said, smiling an evil smile.

“What?”

“No way I’m letting you go. I owe you. Come on in, virgin. I’m going to rock your world.”

Dmitri started to protest, but he’d been ogling those furry boobs for far too long. His smile was mixed with fear, but…

“I can’t! Bones… He can’t be seen in town like this.”

The slutcat smiled. “PARTY!!!”

She took his hand and drew him into the house and up the stairs, the skeleton dutifully following close behind.

Dmitri didn’t protest any longer, though he was fairly sure that, dark skin or no, he was glowing by now. Damn she was pretty, but he was as nervous as a… cat.  What if it didn’t work? He might have the imagination of an erotica author, but… for real? He wasn’t sure how to do anything for real.

The next four hours were the most incredible experience of his life. To say she was wild was an understatement. And he became just as wild eventually. They found a hidden area in the closet, where her friend apparently kept an odd leather outfit as well as numerous exotic toys. They used them all with abandon. By the time it was over, he was exhausted and completely sated. He’d explored every inch of her. Every fantasy he’d conjured up, she was game for, and her competence was justified. She was good with penises. Very good indeed. They’d even found interesting uses for the skeleton, which, oddly, didn’t bother him. Bones had been his closest companion save for his cats, and of course it helped that he wasn’t really alive. Unlike some sentient skeletons, Bones was just an animatron. In this case, an oversized sex toy. Plus Katia had many ideas of her own. Female ideas that he would never have thought of. She only apologized for not having a large fruit available. They checked the kitchen downstairs, but no – there were no pineapples. There was the kitchen table. And a counter that turned out to be less stable than it first appeared. But no pineapples. The peas were an interesting idea. He found out he really liked peas, if served in certain special ways. They ended up breaking the bowl, but nobody got hurt.

Finally he fell back onto the bed, heaving as if his life were nearly spent. He looked at Katia and she rolled over onto her back.

“Was I good?” she asked.

“The very best,” he assured her. “Unbelievably good.”

She smiled and closed her eyes. “I have all the friends,” she murmured, then she rolled back onto her stomach and began to purr, closing her eyes.

When finally he’d gotten his breath back, she was fast asleep. He got up and put the blanket over her.

“Damn that was fun,” he thought. “If I died tomorrow, I wouldn’t regret it!”

Then he looked around the room. Slowly sanity returned and he saw the room. Really saw it. It was trashed. The red paint on the walls was particularly obnoxious. He looked down. Yup. He had red underwear now.

“Oh gods, what have I done?”

He turned to Bones and got an idea. After a quick search around downstairs, and a trip to a nearby merchant who was open late, he returned with some cleaning supplies, a box of chocolates, a potion that she might well need, and a pen and paper. Then he gave the skeleton a command that the skeleton immediately began to follow, while Dmitri began to write. He yielded to his baser instincts though and pulled the blanket partially off the sleeping khajiit and used her body as a table, taking care not to break through the paper, but enjoying the concept of using her curves as a table. It made his writing sloppier, but he was going to take advantage of every new opportunity he could think of.

“Who knows when I’ll be able to use a woman’s ass as a table again?” he thought. “Damned if I’m not going to this time!”

He was halfway through the letter when the door opened. The argonian’s eyes went wide and he suddenly realized had taken his robe off in case Katia wanted to go another round. “There’s always hope!”

A few minutes later, after some hasty commentary, he found himself downstairs in the author’s parlor. She was seething and crying at the same time. He explained as best he could, but he had to leave out some parts. He explained that Bones would continue until the room was as clean as he could make it, but that he had to go. And he saw no reason to mention the somewhat wobblier countertop.

“She’s really not like that. All the time,” Quill-Weave said as he was preparing to leave. The tears in her eyes belied her protestations that Katia was just a friend. For his part, Dmitri explained that it wasn’t just Katia. He was a guilty party too. It had just been too… wild. And that he really did like her. That mollified the Argonian somewhat.

“Look, Dmitri. You seem like a decent sort. For a man anyway. I’m glad you care for her beyond… just that.”

“I do. Let me just finish the letter I was writing for her, and I’ll be gone.”

“You do that,” Quill-Weave said. “But use the table here. It’s made for writing.”

After the experience tonight, Dmitri thought he would be immune to blushing, but he managed to anyway. He started to explain, but realized it was pointless. She probably understood just fine. He was a man, after all. He finished the letter, went upstairs to leave it on the table, and kissed the khajiit. She stirred a little but went back to her purring. He looked around to make sure the door was still closed, and kissed her again, somewhat lower, just for himself. She purred louder. Then he left the room and went back downstairs.

At the door he paused for a minute, Quill-Weave’s eyes turned to him, still wet but curious.

“Listen, Quill-Weave…”

“Yes?”

“We… well. We found your toys.”

Suddenly the argonian’s eyes went wide.

“Yeah. Those. Um… You might want to boil those. Or something.”

Her mouth dropped open. The rows of teeth were worrisome, so his last words he said were just before he closed the door on the way out..

“Um… especially the purple one. It has been places that… well, you might just want to burn it.”

He heard something hit the door as he closed it quickly. It might have been a shoe. Then he got the hell out of there.

Poolside Quill Pie

Rick2Tails uploaded a sketch by Kandlin ( http://kandlin.tumblr.com/ ) of Quill-Weave in a bikini with pie. Specifically:

Now granted it’s just a sketch, but I wanted to color it anyway and I don’t think Kandlin would mind. I know Rick wouldn’t because I asked him first!.

So here it is.

It’s getting more rare that I can post things here in bdprequel blog that aren’t nsfw and are Prequel related, that I’m glad to have something new to post

Pilgrim’s Pride

I did another thing. This thing:

Got turned into this thing:

Drawed by Kazerad, color and shitty background by me.

I started to second-guess myself on the shiny hussy Quill-Weave highlighting, but then I said WTH. It’s just for fun after all, right? I think that Bikini-Quill where I made her all shiny has somehow stuck, so I’m making her shiny here too.  

But really, the pilgrim Weedum-Ja is being pretty hypocritical here even for a pilgrim! I doubt they’d approve of the gaudy gold headfin rings, and I KNOW they wouldn’t stand for the cross-dressing!

I was thinking about making Quill’s dress a sensible grey, but your eye can only handle SO much grey,black and white and I liked it better in pink. So QW gets to wear a nice pink dress. With frills. Don’t be upset Quill, what does that cross-dressing Weedum-Ja know anyway?

(Both characters technically copyright of Bethesda in Oblivion, though of course the redesign by Kazerad in Prequel Adventure. Also, if Kaz can be believed – and on this I think he can – Weedum-Ja IS a Pilgrim class in-game. So, nice little flip on the Pilgrim thing there.)

Dodger: Continuation (5) posted

Rather than clog up your feed with yet another of my ever-expanding Dodger fanfic posts, I’ll just make this a notice that it’s up. New character – the gal on the right here.

I’m probably going to add another image to the post tonight as I have a new artist who’s going to be helping me out occasionally. It’ll be interesting to see what her rendition of ‘anonymous fantasy dodger criminal’ looks like.
I think she’s just going to send me line art so I’ll probably color it
too.  She’s been working on doing Dodger too. Her comment, “Dodger’s
really a chrome dome, isn’t she!”

(And yes, I know that was just Dodger’s imaginary representation of the criminal class. She’s just had one actually appear.)

http://bdfanfic.tumblr.com is where I’m posting them now. Probably best to go to the archive if you’re not up to date though.

Dodger and other characters are Kazerad’s from http://prequeladventure.com (as if you didn’t already know.)

Dodger: Continuation (1)

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Dodger: Continuation (1)

Her first inclination was just to return home. She was well aware of how close she had escaped slavery. Or worse. But the warmth of the drink and the relief of having escaped, along with the Argonian stranger’s words caused her to rethink that decision. Her fascination with humans in general was too deep to let his cynical words stand. And besides, if she returned now she might as well admit defeat. As weird as this day had turned out, she also realized she had learned practically nothing that she could use in her book.

WAIT UP!” she called to the stranger and raced to catch up.

He looked at her askance. “Now hold on young one. I am no babysitter, and you have no business coming with me. Go home to your clutch. The Imperial City is no place for a hatchling like you. I’d thought you would have learned your lesson back there.”

Dodger stood defiant. “You can’t stop me. I’m going to the Imperial City with you or without you. We might as well travel together. I’m seventeen, I’ll have you know. I’m not a hatchling.”

“Suit yourself,” he shrugged. “But don’t expect me to be your nanny. You’re on your own when we get there. And here, give that bottle back. I don’t need a drunk hatchling…”

“Seventeen!”, she insisted.

“…drunk teenager then. I don’t need some drunk teenager staggering around slowing me down. Keep up or don’t. But you don’t need that.”

“Yes sir, Mr… what did you say your name was?”

“I didn’t.”

“Well, what should I call you then?”

“You shouldn’t. But ‘Sir’ will do.”

Dodger groaned at that. This was going to be a long, boring walk.

“Well, I’m Kakar-Sutheeth,” she said, holding out her hand in the common human way of greeting. “And I’m glad to meet you.”

The stranger looked at her hand, a smile coming over his face.

“Shut up!” she said at his non-existent words. “Just call me Dodger.”

“Dodger it is then. A porcupine?”

“I said shut up about it,” she said, knowing a blush was stealing over her face against her will.

They did find a road before long, and the stranger seemed to know where he was and where he was going, so Dodger kept pace and tried not to ask too many questions until the sun began to set.

“Um… sir?”

“Yes Dodger?” he sighed as they climbed yet another hill.

“How far is it to the city? Will we get there tonight?”

“Not tonight, no. I’ll stop before nightfall. You can continue on if you like, but I’d advise against it. Unless a Legionnaire comes up behind us that wants to keep guard over you, it’s not safe at night.”

“Oh. Okay.”

They walked on for a while until he came to a stop as the sky began to darken. He pointed at last to an outcrop of rocks some way off the road. “There,” he stated.

Dodger followed dutifully, taking another drink from her water flask as she followed him.

“Do you have a knife?” he asked.

“Sure! Unlike you, I came prepared!” she said cheerfully as she dug around and produced the small blade.

“Hmph. Got any food in that pack of yours?”

“Well,” she stammered. “Not a lot. I’ve got some jerky left and a little green-leaf salad.”

“Prepared eh?” he said, looking at the knife in his hand. He looked at her again and the knife suddenly looked a lot bigger than she remembered.

“You can have it!” she said, proffering her pack whole.

“Oh relax hatchling. I’m not going to rob you. You stay here. I’ll be back in an hour or less.”

She watched his back fade into the darkness and settled in atop the rocks in a little cubby and picked at her salad. She decided that, as gruff as the stranger was, she was duty bound to offer him half anyway so she separated what she had. That crack about being prepared was stupid, she realized, and she hit herself on the head for having said it.

“Stupid, stupid, stupid!”

But as time went on, she began to wonder if he was even going to come back. It had certainly been more than an hour and there was still no sign of him. She wouldn’t blame him if he’d abandoned her altogether. Eventually she pulled out her blanket and tried to sleep. But the breeze was cold, the blanket thin and small, and the rock was hard. She snuggled up to the rock behind her closer, the heat of the day still radiating from it a little.

She heard him return finally, whispering her name, “Dodger? Are you there?”

“Sir? Yes, I’m here.”

“Sorry, it took longer than I thought. I’ve a little food if you’re interested,” he said, climbing up to where she lay.

Dodger took one look at the raw mystery meat he offered and shook her head. “Thanks, Sir. I really appreciate it. But I’m good.”

He nodded in the darkness, her eyes able to pick out his silhouette against the night sky.

“I’d cook it if I could. I don’t eat raw meat as a habit. But a fire out here isn’t a good idea.”

“I saved you some salad,” she said, sitting up and offering it.

“Thank you, I’ll take it young one,” he said. “We’ll be in the city by midday tomorrow. My friend will put us up and feed us when we get there.”

“Oh! That would be wonderful!” she said, not hiding the delight in having a more formal plan for her future, if even just for another night. She offered him her water.

The stranger took the water bottle gratefully and drank a draft before handing it back with a grunt, then lay down with his back to her and his jacket over his shoulders. It didn’t even reach to his tail, she noticed, then looked to her own blanket. Too small but better than that.

“This is silly,” she said. “Sir, turn around.”

“Hmm?” he grunted, turning over.

She snuggled up against him, stuck her tail between his legs and put the blanket over them both, using his arm for a pillow and pulling his other arm over her.

“A human would be warmer,” he said.

“I’m sure they would,” she agreed. “But you’re all I’ve got tonight. Now don’t get fresh. Goodnight, Sir.”

“Yellow-Eyes,” he said a little later. “Call me Yellow-Eyes.”

“You don’t have yellow eyes, do you?”

“You don’t know?,” he asked.

“I’m color-blind,” Dodger admitted, a little ashamed. “I really don’t know.”

“No, they’re not yellow.” he answered, shifting a little and obviously not planning to explain further.

“SIR!” Dodger exclaimed at a sudden poke in her backside. “I SAID DON’T GET FRESH!”

Yellow-Eyes reached between them and handed her knife back to her.

Dodger laughed nervously and accepted the knife, noticing the handmade sheath of leaves he had created for it. “Oh. Heh. Sorry.”

Weedum-Ja Comes to Visit.

This is a fanfiction. Yeah, it is a wall of text. If I had ANY artistic talent I’d try to illustrate it. But I don’t so I can’t. I wrote it after a commission last night from Kazerad. I asked for “Quill Weave and Weedum-Ja playing Twister” and added that nudity needn’t be involved. Bikinis are fine. What I got was something totally different, and inspired me to write this…

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It’s a little bit risque but not bad really. If you have the eyes for reading a bit, give it a shot and let me know what you think! If you’re Kazerad, stop reading here. This is not for you. Kazerad is now officially allowed to read this.

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She’d never much liked Weedum-Ja. It might even have been a touch of jealousy though, at least she recognized that. While she had achieved some modest fame through her writing, her rival had won hers through adventures and a skill with people that Quill simply didn’t possess. But what really pissed her off was Weedum-Ja’s inexhaustible knowledge of lore. Well, maybe not that so much as her apparent inability to stop from expounding on every subject like an expert because of it. Worse yet, Weedum was invariably correct. Quill checked up on her more than once. There’s nothing worse than a know it all who actually does!

Still, while a distant cousin, she was family and in adverse times you help your own. Quill had received the letter just two days ago. The events around Kvatch were still sketchy, but Weedum had been clear enough on one aspect. Her home was gone and she needed a place to stay till she got it rebuilt. Even Quill had to cringe at the loss of Weedum-Ja’s library. It had been impressive. Now apparently all lost to the flames.

Though Quill Weave’s own abode was nice enough, it was small. It was just right for her in her solitary lifestyle and just big enough to invite her few friends over in the living room to play Dwemers and Dragons occasionally when the pub was too busy. She only had one bedroom, and even with the work she’d done restoring it, it still had scars from the trashing that damned khajiit had left behind. The window had been repaired, but she left it open nearly all the time due to the faint but lingering odor. Even now she trembled involuntarily at the thought of what must have gone on in that room. But Weedum-Ja didn’t need to know that. Fortunately the odor was an unidentifiable mix of khajiit, unicorn dung, sex and moldy peas.

Flowers? Maybe flowers would help.

Well, she’d put up with sleeping with that mangy cat for a night. Sleeping with a fellow argonian, even Weedum-Ja, would be better than that. At least her cousin wasn’t destitute. At one time she had had more money that Quill herself, which was a comforting thought. That is, if she hadn’t gambled it all away. The tales she’d heard of Weedum-Ja’s penchant for alcohol and gambling were a bit too specific to be completely false.

Quill sighed deeply and squinted her eyes as the mid-morning sun struck her full in the face. Once again she had managed sleep halfway on and halfway off the bed again with her head-fins nearly touching the floor. She turned her head and looked under the bed. Yup. Still there. The ball gag she’d found still bore deep fang-marks in the distinctive pattern of a khajiit. Why hadn’t she thrown it away? She knew the answer to that of course. There was a book in that wretched cat. The ball gag was a memento. If the poor thing lived long enough to warrant one anyway. “Although,” Quill found herself musing, “an interesting enough death might make an even better story.”

STOP!” she said out loud. “Don’t think like that Quill! Your reading public doesn’t need to know about your morbid fantasies!”

Instead she rearranged herself, scratched her ass and tasted the vile remains of last night’s dinner – a mostly liquid dinner. She really should stop drinking so much, she thought, then got to her feet, steadied herself with her tail, and staggered off to her closet. Inside she found her Favorite Outfit #27. She had over thirty, all custom made to her exact proportions. The townsfolk thought she was odd, wearing the same clothes day in and day out. But she knew better. She just had lots of identical ones. It made things so much easier! “Which clothes to wear today? Why, the clean ones of course!” She stole a touch on the hidden black outfit in the back of the closet and smiled an evil smile, then closed the closet door.

When she turned back, she glanced down and shoveled yesterday’s clothes under the bed with her foot. Not too bad. No vomit anyway. And that thought along with an urging in her bladder took her to her bathroom where she spent another 20 minutes brushing her teeth. She’d always been proud of her teeth. Bright sharp fangs all around. That’s the way to stay young. She’d never seen an old Argonian with perfect teeth – so she was going to stay young by good dental hygiene! A quick splash of water and she was soon dressed and ready for a new day.

Of doing nothing.

“It’s good to be a writer,” she thought as she plopped back onto the bed and felt the sun on her tail.

A couple hours later she got up to begin the day in earnest when the maid came in. Quill liked the white khajiit. Very meticulous. As far as Quill was concerned, the albino cat had never left so much as a stray white hair behind. And, though she wouldn’t admit it under torture, the sight of that little tuft of fur peeking out from the collar of her maid’s outfit sent a little thrill down to her tail. Clean, tidy and healthy with a bit of meat on her bones unlike like that yellow scraggly thing. Maybe someday Quill would ask the maid her name.

“Hey, would you mind picking up some flowers and setting them in my room? My cousin Weedum-Ja is coming to visit today and I’d like to see if we can cover up that stench.”

“Yes ma’am,” the khajiit replied as sweetly as that grating voice could manage.

“Oh, and maid, would you be interested in making an extra septim or two tonight?”

The red albino eyes shot up to her instantly. “Ma’am?”

“Bingo,” Quill smiled inwardly.

“I’d like to do some entertaining. You can bring some friends along. About five I think. But clean, respectable friends mind you!”

“Yes ma’am!” said the maid, her eyes shining now. Funny how a bit of money could do that to these types.

But the maid stood looking at her as if she had a question. “Yes? Was there something else?”

“Sorry ma’am but I need to know which type of friends to bring.”

Quill pondered this. She wasn’t too sure what Weedum-Ja liked in the way of entertainment.

“Bring a variety, both male and female of different races please. Oh, bring one of those dunmers if you know one. They’re always fun!”

“Will… um… Will they get paid too?”

Quill sighed. Why must it always come down to money? Was there no such thing as loyalty anymore?

“Oh, I suppose. If my cousin likes them.” said the argonian and she was delighted to see the little khajiit smile her bright smile back at her and start her chores around the house. “Such a sweetheart,” Quill thought as she watched the maid carrying out the chamber pot delicately. “I’m lucky to have her.”

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A knock came on the door that evening. Quill was at her writing desk as usual, staring at a blank page. She jumped a bit but soon had her clothes back on and opened the door.

“Welcome cousin! Come on in. Have a seat!” Quill greeted her green relative warmly, even if she didn’t feel terribly sincere about it.

“Hi Quill! How’s the writing business?” said, Weedum-Ja heartily while her keen eyes scanned the room as if looking for something to complain about.

“Oh, not bad. I had a new book published last month. Have you heard about it?”

Weedum-Ja headed straight for the kitchen and Quill rolled her eyes. “Not wasting any time mooching off me,” she thought.

“New book? It’s not one of those fiction things is it? You know I don’t read those.”

“Well, yes. It is.”

“Waste of time if you ask me. Bunch of made-up stories. Not that I begrudge you the income mind you! The plebs of the world revel in that stuff. Bread and circuses. Keep the masses entertained while the world goes to hell, right?”

“I suppose so,” Quill answered. Inwardly she wondered, “How is it possible for her to get on my nerves 5 minutes after she gets here?”

Later, Quill was sitting at one of her dining chairs while her guest sprawled over her good padded chair like an overstuffed pillow.

“…still,” Weedum-Ja was saying while she snacked on a carrot, “a cozy little place. Thanks for letting me stay with you. I know you and I don’t exactly see eye-to-eye on everything, but you’re always there for me when I need help and I appreciate that.”

What Quill appreciated was the growing pile of crumbs around, and in, her favorite chair.

“That’s what family is for, no? So, any idea how long you’ll be staying?”

“Well, the contractor says he’ll have the roof back up a week from now. Of course, he’s one of those orsimer types. Great for heavy lifting but their estimates leave much to be desired. If only we had some good argonian builders in Kvatch! They’d have the whole thing done by next week and they’d get it done right. But no, this orsimer’s all we’ve got that isn’t working on the chapel or the palace already. Cost a pretty septim too. They sure know how to gouge a girl when the times are tough. Fortunately I’m not in any hurry. Within a month or two it should be good as new.”

“A month or two,” Quill quoted, her tail gone limp.

“Oh cheer up cousin! We’ll have a great time. So, how about we go to that bar I was at last time? It’s been a long dry trip.”

“Actually, my maid is coming by later with some friends to keep us entertained.”

Weedum-Ja seemed to consider this, “Well, okay. If you’ve already made plans. Is she cute?”

“Weedum,” Quill explained, “she’s a khajiit.”

“Ew! You let one of them into your house?”

“Yes, and she does a good job too! You should be more open minded like me.”

“Well, maybe. What’s her name?”

“Um… ‘Maid’?”

Weedum-Ja laughed at Quill which sent her mood lower.

“Hey! She’s only been working here a couple of years. What do you expect?” Quill rallied.

Weedum-Ja uncoiled herself and stood up. “I expect,” she said looking back towards the kitchen, “that somewhere in this house you have something a body can drink. That’s not water or fruit juice!”

Quill rose. “Hang on, I’ll get you something. Mixed or straight?” she asked, admitting to herself that the girl had a good idea there.

“Straight. If we’re going to have a party, we’d best not waste any time!”

In fact, time wasn’t the only thing that was wasted by the time the little khajiit timidly knocked on the door later that night. Weedum-Ja had actually managed to raise Quill’s spirit a little as they sang some old song from the Marsh. Quill was actually laughing when she opened the door and saw her maid, another khajiit, a nord and two dunmer outside. She noticed one of the dunmer held some sort of musical instrument which she smiled at approvingly.

“Welcome friends! I assume she…” Quill said, nodding towards her maid, “told you already. I’m hosting my cousin Weedum-Ja tonight and was hoping you might like to entertain us a little.”

The four turned to the maid who turned back to Quill, saying, “We thought a little music and some dancing maybe? Ma’am?”

Weedum called from the living room, “That would be great! Come on in!”

Quill stood aside as the little troupe marched in, only a little irked at Weedum’s presumption. But the group looked nice and she didn’t fail to notice the smell of soap on each of them.

“Probably the first bath they’ve had in weeks,” she thought to herself. “Still, they are a healthy looking group.”

Even the other khajiit didn’t seem to be scanning the room looking for valuables. Instead the dunmer started to play and the other four paired off and started dancing.

“Nice!” Weedum-Ja said, nodding approvingly to Quill Weave. But under her breath she said, “I bet you 5 septims he plays King and Country next.”

Quill, who knew her cousin well, had no doubt that she was earnest in her suggested wager. “You’re on!” she smiled.

An hour later Quill was up 20 septims on the various wagers and she was in a very good mood. Fortunately, her guest didn’t seem to mind losing. Quill even offered some drinks to the entertainers. As it turned out, her maid was quite skilled at dancing and even managed to sing a song or two in that odd raspy voice. At last the dancers asked if they could take a break and Quill was happy to let them do so.

“So, what do you think?” she asked Weedum-Ja.

“Very nice!” her fellow Argonian answered. “That maid of yours is quite the dancer too. Great body!” Then, as if correcting herself, she added, “…for a cat I mean.”

Quill blushed a bit at that. Her cousin had never been what she would call modest, and it seemed the more drinks that went down her throat, the more libertine her attitude became.

“I… suppose so. But how about that nord eh? I bet he’s got a six-pack under that shirt I could wash my clothes on!” she responded, hoping it was the right thing to say in the circumstances. While her preferences might lie in the other direction, she knew her cousin was a devout ‘maleologist’.

“Well! Let’s find out! I’ll bet you that neither of us think he has abdominals worth mentioning.  Say, 5 septims?”

Quill looked back to where the nord was looking at them, smiling and well within earshot. She took that as a good sign and repeated the phrase she seemed to have said a lot tonight, “You’re on!”

They both looked to the man who laughed and lifted his shirt up. 5 more septims found their way into Quill’s palm.

Weedum-Ja shook her head at the man as he pulled his shirt back down. “No no! Leave it off! You cost me 5 septims. Least you can do is let me admire my loss!”

He shrugged and pulled his shirt over his head.

“Hey! I’ve got an idea!” Weedum said, downing yet another glass.  "I have this game someone back in Kvatch made for me.  Here, let me show you how it works…“

A few minutes later, Weedum-Ja was seated around the others on the floor. Even Quill had loosened up to the point she was chatting with her maid like an old friend.

"So, let me get this straight… You spin that arrow, and whichever color it lands on, you have to touch that color on the mat. But it doesn’t matter which dot you touch as long as it’s that color?”

Weedum-Ja nodded happily. “That’s it! You just have to use the foot or hand it indicates. And not fall over.”

“But… there’s nothing for tails on the arrow-thing,” the other khajiit pointed out.

Weedum-Ja put on a frown, “No. Invented by humans. No tails.”

“Well! Let’s give it a try!” one of the dunmer cried.

“Yes, lets!” the maid agreed, her own speech becoming a little slurred.

Quill looked at Weedum-Ja as the other got to her feet. “Weedum! Surely you don’t expect me to… do that!”

Weedum looked at her cousin. “Well, not if you don’t want to I guess.”

“Hey, if I’m not wearing a shirt,” the nord pointed out as the two argonians settled into their seats to referee the game, “I think the others should take theirs off too!”

Weedum-Ja squealed with joy. “Indeed! Come on girls. Off with em!”

Quill Weave looked at her cousin as if she’d gone insane and swiftly shuttered the window. “WEEDUM! I’m a respectable member of this town! What if someone were to find out?!”

Weedum slapped her cousin on the back. “Oh my god. Quill! Live a little!”

Quill looked back to where the entertainers had already doffed their shirts. She blinked at the multiple sets of breasts bobbing about in front of her, then looked at her drink. In an instant it was down the hatch and refilled as if by magic.

“What the hell?” she declared. “I’m no Stick In The Mud!”

“Okay, so take turns in this order. Whitey, you go first. Left Hand Red!” Weedum-Ja declared, starting the game.

By the end of the first game, everyone was sufficiently lubricated that they were all having a good time. Even Quill Weave was getting into it. It didn’t hurt that she was up 20 more septims by the end of it, having only bet on the wrong horse once.

“What say we up the stakes, cousin?”

“Sure!” Quill responded a little too loudly, and, she realized, a little to happily. The show in front of her was far more arousing that she cared to admit. “How much are you thinking?”

“I’m not referring to the bets, darling!” Weedum-Ja leered. “OFF WITH THE BOTTOMS!”

Quill Weave’s eyes grew to the size of saucers as she looked back at the players. And they were doing it! In a few seconds there was a room full of naked bodies writhing around in front of her.

“40 Septims on the pink human!”

“Buh… bu…”

“It’s a bet!”

Quill watched as body parts touched body parts that should not do so outside of marriage. Other body parts touched body parts that shouldn’t be touched regardless!

Weedum-Ja had taken over the duties of arrow-spinner as Quill had gone speechless. The tableau in front of her looked like a cultural diversity mural gone badly awry. Not that the participants weren’t getting along fine. Some maybe too well. Had Quill not lost her motor skills, she would have gone to get a bucket of cold water.

“Oh relax,” Weedum-Ja laughed as Quill turned slowly towards her, her eyes wide and unblinking. “It’s a plastic mat. There won’t be any stains on your carpet.”

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In the end, Weedum-Ja had been almost right. After Quill had sworn all the players to secrecy and paid them a healthy extra to help seal their mouths, she closed the door and turned back to Weedum-Ja, who was now snoring and draped over her chair like a misplaced dress. Fortunately she had won enough from Weedum-Ja to cover the entertainer’s expenses with a little left over. In the spirit of diversity, Weedum-Ja had eventually joined in the game fully before her metabolism had finally given out at the onslaught of alcohol.

“At least no one can accuse me of participating!” Quill said, looking down at her nice and still fully-dressed body.

Then she looked back at her cousin. Her distant cousin. In the sprawled position she’d ended up in, she didn’t look like much of a cousin at all. She looked like a drunken, naked female lizard.

“Should I leave her here?” Quill thought to herself. “She certainly deserves to wake up with a backache. Not to mention the headache we’ll both surely have.”

But some remote part of her complained. She’d certainly not want that for herself. Then, like a flash out of the sky, she realized something. Something important. Something meaningful.

She dragged her cousin semi-consciously to her feet and helped her carefully up the stairs.

“Come on Weedum. One step at a time,” she said as the other mumbled something unintelligible back. Other than one little slip on the landing, she managed to get her cousin to lay down properly in her bed.

As she covered up the now-snoring guest, she was proud that she had not gotten too aroused at carrying the naked argonian after all. Morning would be awkward, but in her state there’s no way she was going to manage to get Weedum-Ja’s underwear back on her now.  But she no longer cared much about that. She was thinking about someone else.

Quill climbed into the bed beside her cousin and lay awake while the ceiling spun around her. Weedum-Ja shifted then and Quill let out a quiet squeak as Weedum’s tail came to rest in an inappropriate place. She carefully moved the tail away, but it promptly flopped back across her chest. Quill gave up. She couldn’t help but be aware of the touch of her bedmate, but she was remembering a night not long ago when another person had slept beside her in this bed, and her cousin’s snoring and unconscious touch didn’t bother her anymore.  She had awoken that next morning, not sprawled upside down half on and half off the bed like usual, but properly aligned and her blanked snugly over her shoulders. She hadn’t thought about it at the time. The khajiit had done that. That mangy, sad, scrawny khajiit had taken the time to get her back into bed and tuck her in. And the effort! It’s a wonder the noodle-armed khajiit had even been able to lift her at all. But she had.

“Poor khajiit. I hope you’re doing alright,” she said out loud to the ever-circling ceiling. She knew she was suffering from the Drunk Emotional State, but she didn’t care. Drunk or sober, it was nice to think someone like that existed. But she comforted herself knowing that she’d helped the wretch out at least a little. If she ever returned, Quill Weave vowed then that she’d try and be nicer to her. If she ever returned. If not… well… she knew another khajiit didn’t she? Tomorrow she would ask her what her name was.

Quill Weave turned to her cousin and gave her a little kiss. “Goodnight Weedum-Ja,” she whispered, then turned back and closed her own eyes. The world stopped swimming. “Goodnight Katia, wherever you are,” was the last thing she thought before she fell to sleep.

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Oh! I thought I posted this already. Guess not! Well, for Valentines day I’d commissioned Kaz to draw that QW+QW thing. I wanted a follow up, so I thought it might be nice to show QW+QW walking a dog. This is what I got. I got QW+QW Potential Puppy Murderers.

Now, I’m probably reading WAAAY to much into this, but I see a deeper meaning in this. If you associate only with like-minded people, bad ideas can seem like good ones due to the resonant echo chamber effect. In pre-Internet days, everyone watched the same 3 TV channels. That doesn’t mean everyone agreed with the same things – but they saw the other point of view often. 

Now you can be so selective in your choices that you don’t even know the other opinion exists. And they don’t know you exist. They become THEM and you  become US.

Don’t date yourself. Open up to those with differing points of view a little. And… don’t drown your puppy. It cannot breathe underwater. Not even a little. 

Kaz’ original sketch below. Yeah, I found the little happy background on the Internet somewhere. It seemed appropriate somehow. Like something out of MLP.  

Quill Loves Quill

During a stream last week, I wanted Kaz to draw me something with Quill + (somebody who is NOT Katia) for Valentines Day.  A lot of suggestions were thrown out but Kaz suggested Quill + Quill.  Now THERE’S a novel concept! So thus began my favorite so far I think.

Here’s the original I got from Kaz (unfortunately a day after VDay, but so it goes.)

Talk about beautiful! That’s beyond adorable. And yeah, damned sexy too without being explicit.  (BTW, on closer inspection I noticed he’d drawn flames around the pupils on the right-hand Quill).

Besides the awesomeness of two amorous lizards staring deeply into each others eyes with Love and Lust, I also particularly liked how it can be interpreted depending on your specific preferences. Right had Q can definitely be interpreted as male if you so choose, Or not! Whichever is just fine!

So I REALLY wanted to do a good job on coloring this. I hope the result is as good as I think it is!

That is, if you don’t’ recognize it, the I Love Lucy heart. Somehow it just seemed appropriate, even in greyscale as it is.

Intent is to show Q+Q at night, though I’m not sure if it translates to a night scene as much as I intended. I also slightly lightened the colors of left-Q. Just seemed appropriate. But regardless, it’s by far the favorite one I’ve done yet. Hope you like too! Lizards in Lust!

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The Hero of Kvatch

(A fanfic of a fanfic – yeah. I know. Stupid brain made me write this after my first playthough of Oblivion. I blame Kaz.)

Dearest Kitten,

Your mother wrote to me and told me about your plans to join the Imperial Legion. You’ve always told me how proud you are to be related to the Hero of Kvatch, and I’ve always been proud of you too. As I compose this letter, I am almost 70 years old now. My joints are creaking, my eyes are cloudy, and some of my fur doesn’t seem to want to grow back anymore. My memory, however, is still pretty good. Quill is helping me write this. She always was a better writer than me anyway, but what I’m about to relate to you, even she didn’t know before now.

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You see, I have a strong sense that you are pursuing this path in life because of my fame, such as still remains. You think you have the blood of a Hero running through your veins, and that you are special. You are special, dear! But I need to disabuse you of the thought that I’m any sort of Hero before you make this your life’s calling. And you may certainly do so, kitten! But please don’t do it out of any thoughts of what I did all those years ago. You don’t know the real story.

I’ve never discussed this with anyone before now in detail. The major points of the story are true. Kvatch was burnt to the ground by the Daedra of Oblivion. The Oblivion gate did appear where they say it did. I did go through that gate into the Deadlands in order to close the gate, and I did remove the Sigil Stone which closed the gate. All that is true, and I’ve never taken it upon myself to argue with those that promoted my story. But there are aspects they, and you, don’t know.

Life in Tamriel is hard, kitten. When an opportunity comes, like this whole Hero nonsense, you take it and keep your mouth shut. I suggest you do the same. Burn this letter after reading it. You have a name that means something still, and this letter might destroy that advantage. That is not my intent. So please consider that. My life is nearly over, and nothing would bother me now, but your mother and your siblings can still take advantage of my name.

So, here goes. Quill has her fins up now I see. She always does that when she’s perked up. Well, I can’t avoid telling her too I suppose.

It all happened many years ago when I was young and foolish. I went by another name then, a name I just made up. I was a complete failure in life. I’d left your great grandmother’s land for Cyrodil after having botched up my life back home, and was well on my way to botching it up here when Quill took me in. Even then she was a well known writer, and to let me into her house as a wandering vagabond with no gold and no prospects was a kindness I’ll never forget.

Oh… she points out that she didn’t really let me in. Well, that’s so. But she didn’t kick me out either. One day shortly after we’d met, she sent me on some errand or other to Kvatch. Believe me, I had no idea about that whole Oblivion thing at the time! I was just going there on an errand for Quill, and no humbler traveler can be imagined. Had it not been for a soldier who befriended me, I probably wouldn’t have made it that far. But I was in Kvatch, screwing up that simple errand when the Gate appeared out of nowhere. Suddenly there were these creatures running around and killing people and burning things. I don’t mind telling you I ran for the chapel without a thought of anything but saving my own fur. I certainly was no hero. That word belongs with the city guards who were doing the real battling while I huddled under a pew.

Yes, I did. I pissed myself and lay shivering under a bench in the chapel with my eyes so locked closed I don’t think a giant could have pried them open. But then I felt Brother Martin touch me. I don’t remember what he said, but he got me to get back on my feet, found me some old leather armor to wear, and gave me some food. And not just me. There were others who’d taken refuge there. But it was his voice that brought me back to my senses. Even then it was calming yet powerful. Yes, it was that ‘Martin’, though of course I didn’t know it at the time. I did feel a sense of fear of him, but considering the things I’d just seen outside, I barely noticed.

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A little later the Captain of the guard came in. He refused to let us leave though, but then he did the most incredible thing. He asked me if I would help him. ME?! It may have been the leather armor that Martin had me wear after I’d soiled my clothes, but he seemed to think I could help. Odder still, I decided to try it. I don’t know if it was the fright making me a little insane, or the honor I felt that he would consider me, a lowly worthless Khajiit, worthy of such responsibility.

Honestly I think it was the armor though. It made me feel… different. Like I could do something with my life. So I agreed.

Now kitten, I do have a few skills. Or at least, I did at that time. I was… good with men, and I knew some party tricks. But I also was good at running, great at sneaking and not too bad with a bow. I even could throw some weak little fireballs. The Captain gave me a steel bow and a quiver of arrows, and I took off for the gate.

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I was barely through the gate when I knew I’d screwed up. There was this huge tower, and the place was hot. Pools of lava around the bit of land I stood on. But there was a guard there fighting some monsters nearby. I hid and shot one of them with my bow, and he dropped like a rock. I wasn’t too far away and they didn’t know I was there, so I got in another shot or two.

The guard finished off the others and told me about some sort of stone that powered the gate that was at the top of the big tower. Or maybe that was the guy in the tower that told me that. My memory isn’t what it used to be. Anyway, I headed for the tower and was really feeling like I could do something worthwhile at that point.

Anyway, I sneaked past quite of few of those things that lived there and got inside. I did kill one of them inside without any of the others noticing, and got into some sort of outer passage that wound up the tower. As I crept up, I saw this really big Daedra and a human fighter who was imprisoned in this sort of cage thing. I took a potshot at the big guy and hit him pretty good, but he came at me with fireballs like I could only dream of, and I ran like hell. One of the fireballs hit me square in the back and my armor caught fire. In desperation I turned around and saw the thing running at me, but my clothes were on fire!

Well, another thing I’m good at is taking off clothes… fast. I did so and had just enough time to send a couple more arrows at the guy when suddenly these spear things sprang out of the wall and hit him!

Apparently he’d set off his own trap. To this day I have no idea why I didn’t set it off. I’d ran past it twice. Maybe I was too light to trigger it, or maybe I just missed stepping on the trigger. Anyway, they skewered him good, which was a good thing because I’d used the last of my arrows.

I heard the weird voices of some of those creatures down the path below me and knew they were heading up. Slowly, thank goodness, but still – there I stood, naked as the day I was born and with nothing but a bow and no arrows for a weapon. I crept back up the ramp and talked to the guy in the cage. In different circumstances, I might have been embarrassed, but this was not a time to be concerned about modesty. Of course, we’ve got our fur to keep us somewhat modest too. And now that I remember it, I had something else. I… sort of painted myself… It’s a long story, but anyway the guard either thought I was wearing something or just didn’t care. But he pretty much commanded me to leave him and go get rid of that stone thing.

Honestly, I’m not sure if I’d have done it willingly, but those voices were getting closer and I really had no choice anyway. I had nothing to fight them with and there was no way out of that room but up. I’ve often thought of that human in the years since. I don’t think I want to know what happened to him, but I do think about him.

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So I left and crept further up the tower. Fortunately I met no more Oblivion creatures till I came to a wider room with two doors facing towards the center of the tower. I peeked out and both led to an inner area with nowhere to hide, and lots of monsters lurking around. I really had no idea what to do next. If I walked through those doors, there was no hiding. I had no weapon. I had no armor. I didn’t even have any clothes! I sat and thought, and honestly I cried. “What the hell was I doing there?” I remember thinking.

But I didn’t have long to sit and ponder my options. Voices and steps began to come from lower down and were approaching me, and there was no where to hide in here either. Those footsteps were loud too.

Something big was coming. Lots of somethings. I had no choice any more. I opened the door to the inner ramp.

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Eyes of various shapes turned to look at me. Malignant eyes. I began to run. Some were behind me, some were ahead of me, some were on the opposite wall of the tower. But none wanted me to be there. A fireball slammed into the wall behind me as one of them realized what it was seeing. I think by that time I was screaming. Not the cool, warrior scream of a Hero on the warpath though. The frightened, panicked and desperate scream of a young Khajiit.

I ran like my life depended on it. But it didn’t. My life depended on me not being there in the first place. My life was over, I had no doubt. The only reason I didn’t just sit down and cower and wait for the end was that my mind was no longer working. I was on automatic. I remember at one point I ran smack into a big Dremora that was still just kind of staring at me. I sprang back up and kept running, not even looking back.

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Fireballs and other projectiles were smacking into the wall in front and behind me. I think one of them lit the tip of my tail on fire, but I was beyond caring. I was just running and screaming. One other thing I had was the ability to throw my own little fireballs. That didn’t last long before I was out of magic, and there’s no way I actually hit anything. But it at least helped get some of them out of my way.

I do vaguely recall one thought. I thought about how much I wish I had a good bra. Your grandmother never had much to speak of in that department, other than those few wonderful months after I had your mother. For just a while then, I was a fertility goddess! But running all out like I was, the little I had was bouncing around like mad. Painted on bras really do not help!

Then, somehow I found myself at the top. I dropped so I was out of the line of sight from those below and had a few scant seconds before they would overtake me from the sides. The stone was glowing weirdly on a sort of platform out over the yawning drop down the center of the tower. I knew I was dead, but I wanted to do this one thing before I died. I was beyond fright, though I think I was still screaming – or at least my mouth was trying to. My plan, such as it was, was just to grab the stone and drop it. It wouldn’t do any good to just grab it and then have those things put it right back.

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Would it shatter if it fell from here? I had no way of knowing. But it was the only thing I could think of. I also thought about jumping over with it. Surely that death would be preferable to what those creatures would do to me. At least, I think that was my plan, if you can call it a plan. But something unexpected happened instead.

The power from the stone was incredible, and I probably looked like a fluff-ball by the time I reached it, but I did reach it. I pulled the stone out.

Then, somehow, I was standing outside the gate and was back in Kvatch. I don’t know how. I don’t know why. I was just there. I had no expectation of that happening. No one even gave me a clue that could happen. But I was there.

I was naked, hoarse and shaking. I was deaf too, I think due to that energy around the stone. The Captain of the guard ran up to me I remember, and put his cloak around me. Nice guy. I should see if he’s still with us.  Anyway, there were still Oblivion-things running around, but no new ones were coming through the gate and they were slowly being killed by the guards and some others that had arrived.

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I found out later that they were calling me the Hero of Kvatch. They took me back to a little camp some way down the trail to the city. I met some people there, but it took me some time to understand that they weren’t backing away from me because I was a Khajiit. It wasn’t because I was naked underneath that cape. It wasn’t because I had painted my boobs and crotch with brown paint like a crazy person. They saw all that, but that wasn’t why they were looking at me with wide eyes. They were in awe. In awe of me, the Hero of Kvatch. The Khajiit that had single handedly entered Oblivion, climbed the tower and destroyed the gate.

My hearing returned later that day. My voice, a few days later. That was probably a good thing too. Otherwise I probably would have told someone what really happened. By the time I could, I’d already gotten praise from everyone for my adventure. Telling them the true story would be a big let-down, and an embarrassment to them as well. Sometimes the truth isn’t really that good of an idea. I kept my mouth shut and just said, “Thank you” to all my well-wishers.

Days later, I finally got to see Quill again. I was sort of at the head of a parade into her town. I’m sure she didn’t recognize me at first. I was wearing an outfit practically made for a Queen, but I stepped down from the carriage right in front of her house. I still remember her looking at me from her doorway as I approached, no recognition in her eyes at all.

I guess to some people all Khajiits look alike, even Quill.

I frowned and opened my blouse a bit. I may have flipped her off too. When she saw the painted-on bra, though, that did the trick. Once she got over the shock, she hugged me for the second, but not last, time in my life. The Hero of Kvatch had returned.

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And that’s the true story. Quill gave me another hug just now. I guess she doesn’t think less of me. Since your grandfather died and I moved in here, she’s come to know me too well. She’s probably suspected all along that I wasn’t exactly Hero material. I got lucky, and a little insane. That’s all. So kitten, I hope I’ve explained well enough what happened. If you have some of my characteristics due to sharing my blood, those are probably not exactly the characteristics of a Hero.

Kitty, don’t be a Hero. I survived by pure dumb luck. You may not be so lucky. There are other occupations that can use our special talents better. If you insist on joining the Legion, remember to use those talents. Sneak. Learn archery. Run. It’s not cowardice to do those things. It’s using your advantages. It’s a sure bet any Orcs are going to use their muscles!

Quill just reminded me too, I never did finish that errand she sent me on. Figures she’d remember that. Anyway, one more word of advice before I finish. Always, and I mean always keep a good fitting bra. You will thank me later.

Now, do like I said and burn this letter. Then say hello to your mother for me, and I’ll be expecting you all to come and visit me and Quill again next month. Quill promises she won’t try to squeeze your cheeks again.

Love Always,

Your Grandma.

Fanfic image 2 of 3 (no, now 5)

I’m like way overhyping this stupid fanfic with these images, but so it goes.  Anyway, I got the other 2 from Kaz I was waiting for.  But then he went and barstreamed and I got 2 more!  

Without going into detail, this is Katia hiding under a pew in the Kvatch chapel, and being coaxed out from under it by Brother Martin. The original sketch had no background though – not even a hint of one.  So I dug this up as a reference from the Prequel archives:

Also I needed Brother Martin to get canon colors, but he doesn’t appear directly in any of the archives.  But no fear, he’s there in Excelsior! so I grabbed this screenshot:

After finding this, I was kinda surprised by how accurate Kaz drew him from memory since as far as I can tell this is the only place he appears at all in Prequel!

So here’s Kaz’s sketch:

When I requested the next two the other day, he was wondering how much detail I really needed when I just line-draw over them anyway.  But dammit, these aren’t JUST for posting.  Hell, I might even frame the originals!  So I broke out my whip and demanded top-rate sketches even if I ruin them on my color-jobs.  So here’s the line-drawing and flatcolor version:

I obviously added the background and it’s kinda shitty – but gotta be something there right?  Then added shading and highlights and this is the end result:

I’m not too happy with Martin’s eyes, but I’m not going to succumb to Perfectionist-Art-Syndrome, so this will have to do. Emperor or no, he’s still a pretty minor character.  (I think I gave him jaundice – I needed less-than-white eyes in order for the white highlights to show up at all!)

That’s it.  Off to throw it on the fanart booru.