"Congratulations on your initial success."

"Your reaction is more than congratulations enough." Kiss! 

Kiss!

Giggle! 

And: onwards?

Onwards, to see what passes for a Nord city and tell them about the dragon.

The Nord city is much smaller than most cities in Hammerfell, with farms sprawling out in scraggly patches from it, mostly up the thick lines of the rivers that meet shortly outside the city walls. Still, it's got a full, impressive-looking wall, and it's definitely a city and not an overgrown village, and the fields and roads are dotted with people.

Also, they're stopped at the gate by the guards, who would like to know their business.

They've got a message for the jarl. A warning.

"He'll be up in Dragonsreach, top of the hill." And the guards open the gates for them.

"Thanks." That was... easy.

Dragonsreach must be the castle, then. Time for some climbing exercise.

"Something confusing?"

"My... interactions with the city watch aren't usually so, uh, helpfully straightforward?"

"You might've gotten lucky, though honestly the city watch out here are pretty chill. Though you won't be that lucky anywhere else."

"Make the most of it, I guess. Hopefully the jarl takes this seriously."

"I haven't met him, though more people speak well of him than ill."

"What's, uh, his name?"

She giggles. "Jarl Balgruf."

"Balgruf. Right. It'd be kind of bad to walk up to the man and not know his name."

"A bit disrespectful. Though you can always just call him 'my Jarl' or 'the Jarl of Whiterun.' Hide in the formality."

"Then I'd have to be all formal, though. Stiff."

Giggle! "Though, probably we should get you nicer clothes here first..." They'd grabbed something intact in Riverwood but it's honestly about as shapeless as the rags.

"Yeah, that too. Help with the impression of credibility and all that."

There's got to be at least one clothing store in a city like this, right?

More than one, even. By which she means two for clothing, one of them really a tailor and the other a general used goods store that includes clothing, and one hunters' inn that sells hunting gear as well as food and drink, and one smith who carries armor and the like, and reportedly a second and very famous smith but he doesn't really work for money. 

-Elerki, uh, still doesn't have money of her own. So probably the secondhand shop?

"If you want to travel with me, I can cover armor and such, and do some basic enchantments and cover materials for those." Wink. "Call it an investment."

"Traveling with you has been more than tolerable so far. I wouldn't mind continuing to do so."