So what baseline rumors are they working from?

- Yep 'Dragonborn.' This is Skyrim so that means 'chosen of Akatosh,' but. 

If Akatosh has chosen her, that's news to Elerki.

Glint at least can spin some fast bullshit about magic spells and a soul trap attempt that went a little off. (It helps that they're the only real mages here. Magic is rare in Skyrim.)

(Maybe she should see about learning a soul trap.)

Elerki can contribute some helpfully obfuscatory jargon.

And Glint can even more helpfully bait the guard captain into snapping something about recklessness! 

Tracks: covered. No problem.

They're so good at this. 

Professional dragonslayers?

Could look into that... Sounds like the reward for saving the town will be pretty massive. 

She does like lucrative...

Mercenaries, reckless magic students, wannabe dragon slayers, actual dragon slayers.......

They won't be bored, anyway.

Perish the thought. 

(And, by the time they get back to Whiterun's gates, they can have a wildly different story spinning in the head of just about every person present.)

Glint is very talented at that.

And then, as they enter the gates of Whiterun -

The sky darkens, and the world shakes, and a chorus of voices like thunder boom out -

'DOHVAHKIIN!'

(Elerki feels a tug in her chest.)

Oh fuck.

- The Greybeards, is the murmur that immediately springs up. 

And the Jarl's housecarl turns to Elerki and says: "You need to see the jarl. Now."

"Uh. Yeah. That sounds right."

"We'll follow you."

Up to Dragonsreach. To see the Jarl.

He's waiting for them!

"Are you the one the Greybeards called for?" he asks Elerki when his housecarl sweeps them all into his war room.

"...It seems so."

"So the old legends are true..." he muses.

"I don't know about old legends. Just what we saw. And heard."