
If it held, her handiwork would stop the bleeding, but she had no potions to stave off infection. Feeling her way in the dark, she tore several strips of fabric from her tunic, winding it surely about the wound. Feeling her leg, she felt the warm grating wet that could only be sand in clotting blood.Ĭursing under her breath, she undid her belt and cinched its cold leather just above the gouge in her calf.

While her arms were free, her legs felt leaden under the sand that covered them and she immediately began excavating herself.Īs she worked, the metallic tang of blood filled the air. How far had she fallen, and for how long? Sand, then stars had accompanied her fall before the deepest darkness had swallowed her up, but she had no memory of landing.ĭeprived of sight, she felt around her to gather what she could of her surroundings. Then the ground had opened up, devouring the world to send her tumbling into the abyssal void below. She remembered the sickening crunch it had made as steel met skull, the hideous scraping vibration in her arm as she drove it home. His sword lay buried in the skull of the creature that did him in. Rahad, the Redguard merchant who had accompanied her into the desert, was dead, taken unaware in the ruins above.

Memories of her short battle in the ruins above flashed through her mind. 2 is a book in The Elder Scrolls Online.Įhtelar awoke in darkness, faint rivulets of falling sand powdering her brow.

Tales of Tamriel Main article: Books (Online)Ĭhronicles of Ehtelar, Vol.
