Chapter 2
It has been a couple of minutes after the Ghost of Rin gave Cordelia the Key of the Farm, making her now the owner of this place. Cordelia who is hugging her knees on floor started to get up, blank stare. She goes down the basement to at least retrieve the body of Jonquil, bring it outside the Far- her house along side with her Family and give it a proper burial.
As she check the hidden room for the body, only to find out that the body was gone. Cordelia frowns, and deliberately went outside the house to check the Body of Jonquil's husband, again gone, vanish. She went to the Old Well where the child perished from the wolves, but this time the bones are still there, but the bodies of the beasts where she drained of their blood are gone.
Is she hallucinating? Is she turning to Madness? Was the ghosts that she encountered a flick of imagination? Cordelia ponders in her head again and again, decidedly she turns around and get a shovel somewhere around the Farm to make a grave for the Child. After a couple of hours, Cordelia buried the bones, and now stacking the last stone for the stone tower on top of the deceased child. Sun arises in the background, our Vampire who is sweaty, unhooded, and wearing normal clothes that she had found in the house was unharmed. There was silence, she bows her head down, hands on her stomach and let Nature do the talking all around.
Cordelia went back inside the house and sit on the chair. She was deciding on what to do next, Go outside and move on or stay here and prepare, but she smartly decided to stay, there are books upstairs and in the hidden room for her to gain knowledge of this land of Skyrim, she also finds a map as well. Cordelia flops down a stack of books on the table in the main room and sat down. The First book is the most important one is called "The Holds of Skyrim", she started to read.
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It's been a week now since Cordelia started, She now knows the 9 Holds of Skyrim and these are: Falkreath, Whiterun, Markath, Solitude, Windhelm, Riften, Morthal, Dawnstar and Winterhold. She marked them on her map, she also read the different kinds of people (Especially the Cat people), The Religion, Aedra and Daedra beings, the currency and many more.
Cordelia read the last book while draining a Rabbit for its blood as she flip the last page. She sighs and gets up from the chair, went outside and throws the rabbit in to the wilderness to feed the carnivorous animals, then goes back inside and prepare her things for the Journey. After she is done, she climbed up on to the roof and check the surroundings, and seemingly enough, in the distance she finds a Town, her first destination, and a road near by the Farm.
"alright, let's leave this place" Cordelia says as she clasped her hands. She jumps down on the roof, landing uninjured, grab her things, lock the door and on to her merry way without looking back. Cordelia now stands on the Road and is walking towards the town, humming with no visible expression. As she gets closer, she spotted a broken house, but pays no mind into it and passes it. Right now she sees chickens, goats and people working in the fields, she went to the closest one to ask the name of this Town to pinpoint on where she is. The person that she is going to ask is an Elf, a Female Elf to be exact, she really doesn't know the difference between a High Elf or a Woodland Elf, she doesn't really care in any other way, this is the first person that she is going to have a conversation with.
"he-" Cordelia was suddenly interrupted by the Elf and said "Make it quick.", she was stunned for a moment and recovers herself back shortly then replied back "uhm- Your Farm is doing very well. You must be very proud" compliment first, questions second, Cordelia thinks to herself and also how wrong she is.. The Elf then says "Do I detect a bit of jealousy in your tone?", Jealousy? Cordelia blankly stared at the Elf, but the Female Elf continues "I would hardly blame you. What calling could be more noble than this? I see in your eyes that you think I jest. I assure you, I don't. I am proud, and rightfully so, of the work we do here. Working the soil with your hands, seeing your seeds take root and grow, tending a herd... there is a joy in honest labor you won't find elsewhere."
"Then what about the Surplus Crops? Do you sell them anywhere?" Cordelia ask, the Elf replies back "In Whiterun, mostly. Ennis handles the business arrangements, but I know that he has a few purchasers who give us a fair price. Ennis prides himself on his shrewd business schemes. For my part, I'm far happier working with cattle and crops than with people."
Cordelia nods, and briefly ask "huh, is he the Owner of this Farm? Oh! My name is Cordelia, nice to meet you" She smiles and holds her arm out to make a handshake to the Elf. The Elf accepted it and says "yes, the Redguard man over there is the owner of this Farm." the Elf Woman points to a Light brown man tending his fields "My name is Reldith, are you new here?"
"Yes I am, what is this town called if I may ask, and also can you tell me where?" Cordelia say and pulls out her map and shows it to the Elf. "This town is called Rorikstead" the Elf points the town on the map. Cordelia thanked the Elf woman, then told her the she would not bother her anymore as elf woman is still working, and the Elf only nods before telling her there is an Inn inside the stone walls if she wants to stay here for a day or eat.
Cordelia goes outside the town and sat beside the tree. Thinking, with silence by her side...