"I've come up from Hammerfell over the past few months, myself. Never really moved around a lot before that."

"Why travel now, then?"

"I've... been having these dreams. Strange ones. About fire and snow and mountains. I felt like I had to go to Skyrim."

" - And then a dragon shows up."

"First the fucking Thalmor, actually. But then a dragon, yeah."

"Dreams could've been Vaermina fucking with you, if you're unclaimed. - Or Azura if they were actually just prophetic..."

"Maybe. I'd kind of prefer if they fucked right back off."

" - Getting bothered by them all the time seems like it'd get annoying fast."

"This is the first time it's happened."

"...Huh."

"It's weird, right?"

"Yeah. The Princes aren't inclined to restraint when someone's vulnerable... Sheo might give me a hint of what's up, if you feel like getting his attention ever?"

"That doesn't so much sound like a good idea, now that you've said the word vulnerable."

"He likes me, but - that doesn't always count the way you want it to, with a Prince."

"I haven't had one of those dreams since crossing the border. So I think I'll let it rest for now."

"Fair enough."

"Have you been to Riverwood before?"

"I've passed through. It's a pretty quiet place, though one of the bigger non-capital towns in Skyrim - which means it's got one entire general store."

"A whole store? Wow."

She laughs. "No idea how that compares to Hammerfall, though."

"There aren't really any permanent settlements smaller than an entire city."

"I'd love to see that. Skyrim's so - tiny, all except Solitude and Windhelm."

"It probably helps that Skyrim is, like, habitable in the areas outside the cities. More space to spread out."

"And we honestly might get food problems if we concentrated everyone, most of our food plots are like. Kinda spaced out and low yield? And also they're a pain to defend - most farms overlap with a spawn region for something aggressive, and those are easier to make peace with if you're not dealing with too many people."

She, like nearly everyone in Skyrim, was possibly born into an isolated farming family. 

"Yeah, in Hammerfell, either it's just desert or things grow very quickly."