Inside 73: Holiday Rush

[Ironsmith]

Good and Gold

The ring she bought with the faerie gold means it's hard to keep track of where she is in the pipe; she isn't making noise as she ascends. It takes her a while to get to the top, along the ladder hidden within the gutter, but it's to the top she's going. It might be a good idea for Yuvan to refresh his spells, if his mana has recovered.

Once she's on the roof, she'll walk along the gutter until she reaches the edge of the roof's slope, where she returns to her 'original' size of a hundred and twenty centimetres, and continues climbing up and over the roof. Then, she grips the peak of the roof and shuffles along without making much of a silhoutte- people on roofs, if spotted, tend to attract unwanted attention- to the next alleyway along, which has an old metal fire escape. She climbs down that, walks out of the alleyway and across the road, where she walks into another alleyway.

[Good and Gold]

That's far enough. It's clear by now to Yuvan that Boada intended to get far away as quickly as she can. As such, he doesn't deem it likely that she'll stop any time soon, unless someone stops her. Fortunately, now that they're far enough away from Trog's and its associated adventurers, that someone can be him.

The Altmer slips on his helmet and stops at the entrance to the alleyway, inhaling sharply in preparation to shout.

"TIID!"

The word of power echoes throughout the alley as time slows to a crawl for the dragonborn, and he sets up for his confrontation with the would-be thief.

When it starts again, Boada is going to find herself standing mere feet away from fhe rather intimidating sight of a high elf in spiked black armor, wreathed in flame and with that cruelly-spiked mace in hand. Behind her, the alley's exit is blocked off by a thick wall of fire, in which a pair of Flame Atronachs, elemental embodiments of fire, dance wickedly, waiting for their summoner's signal to attack.

"Did you think I wouldn't know what you gave me?" Yuvan demands, his heavy breath reverberating in his helmet. "You've committed crime against me. What say you in your defense?"