Her thoughts were on the words Gabriella had spoken to her with echoes of Ralof’s sneering voice as she climbed through a back window of the Penitus Oculatus outpost. Casting her eyes around the room, she saw an official looking paper on the table closest to the door and swore. With a flick of her wrist, she muffled her movements and crept forward. She knew that she could not trust Ulfric, yet the more she was around the man, the more she desired him, for more than the primal stirrings he created in her. She fed off his hunger for power just as she knew he would if he knew she was Dragonborn. Once again, she asked herself what it was she was hoping to achieve by taking relationship with him to the level she had. Her swearing allegiance to him in this war was foolish, more foolish than she wanted to admit to herself and it angered her greatly. If she were discovered, if it were known that she survived Helgen, the past her mother so desperately tried to protect her from would find her. She shook her head as she thought of what they would do if they discovered she was the Dragonborn; she would rather die than be forced to bend to their will.
Looking at the paper to confirm it was the itinerary of the Maro son, she slipped back out the window and made her way around the building to see which direction the man was going to go. As she listened to the Commander sternly address his son, she smiled as she pieced together the type of man her victim was.
“I’m not joking, Gaius,” the older man was saying firmly, a look of annoyance on his face. “Don’t screw this up. This is your last fucking chance. You drop this one, I won’t be able to save your sorry ass. You’re completely on your own.”
The young man gave a half-smile. “Yeah, I know. You’ve been saying this since before we left for this shit hole.” He looked toward the road. “Can I go now?”
“No, not yet,” he snapped. “Do you have your itinerary?”
Meliandra’s breath caught until she saw Gaius pat his satchel on his hip, nodding. “Right here.”
“No divergence from it, do you hear one?”
“Yes.”
“And that means no whorehouses either!” His voice was stern again. “There’s still that rebel whore slaughtering Imperial soldiers; all I need is to have to tell your mother you were in a whorehouse!”
“Anything else?”
Commander Maro shook his head. “No, I guess not.”
The words were barely out his mouth and Gaius stalked off without a word more to his father. Meliandra cloaked herself in a spell of invisibility and followed the man out of the small town, his destination, Windhelm.
#
Gaius passed through the gates of Windhelm, smiling at the scantily clad woman walking past him as he entered. She looked him up and down and smioled back at him. His eyes traveled down the length of her body and lingered on her shapely thighs, as white as the snow that had accumulated on the ground around him. While he hated being here, he was finding he really appreciated the locals. He walked to the left, where he could see a marketplace beyond interior stone walls. The clanging of a blacksmith’s hammer striking metal against an anvil echoed loudly as he made his way toward the sound. The stone walls were old, and he tried to recall the history of this distant land but found that part of his education was lacking. He saw the elven merchant watching him and he winked at her. It drove his father mad his attraction to elven women, but not as much as his other desires would if his father were to find out.
He noted the height of the walls and how deep the stones were; anyone who tried to attack this city would find themselves at a disadvantage. He made his way past the marketplace and found himself in the marketplace and found himself in the city’s cemetery, deathbells and nightshade creating an aroma that his sense of smell found strangely pleasing. He continued into the nicer part of the city, older, very stately homes lined the street prominently. He noticed that the city guard patrolled this area often, having seen at least a half dozen in the few minutes he had been strolling though the neighborhood. Then out of the corner of his eye, he saw the same scantily clad woman making her way past him and toward the Grey Quarter, catching his eye again. Smiling with a leer in his eye, he followed the elven beauty.
#
She stormed into Ulfric’s private study, her thick bear fur cloak billowing out behind her as she angrily strode up to his desk. “How dare you!” she growled as she slammed her fists onto the top of the desk with a strength so strong, his tankard of mead slightly shook.
Ulfric looked at the Breton, a smile hinting upon his slightly upturned lip. “Hello, Meliandra. Welcome back.”
“Bullshit!” she snapped. “You trust me so little that you would have me followed and jeopardize my job with the Brotherhood?”
He picked up a tankard and the pitcher of mead and poured until it was right below the rim. “Sit. Drink. Tell me of your travels, Assassin,” he said with exaggerated concentration on the last word.
She continued to glare at the man, a thunderstorm raging in her eyes until she relented and took the tankard from him and sat down. She refused to take her eyes off him, even as she drank deeply of the honey mead he had poured her. “Are you going to answer me?”
He sat back in his chair, tilted his head and chuckled. “You mistakenly think that you hold some weight with me, My Temptress. But I do not forget who you are, thief. You are indebted to me. Still. Do not make me find you to be a… costly and… unnecessary asset.”
“Are you threatening me, Ulfric?” she angrily asked.
“No,” he answered as he glowered at her. “I am merely reminding you of your place.”
She snarled. “As I recall, when we first met, we were both in the same place, with our names written on the headsman’s axe, both destined to open our eyes somewhere other than here. Don’t get high and mighty with me.”
“I am your Jarl,” he stated firmly.
She snarled. “Do you honestly think that means anything to one who calls nowhere her home?” She laughed bitterly. “Your title means shit to me.”
His eyes flickered with a flash of anger; when he spoke, his voice was level. “And that is why I had you followed, Meliandra. Your allegiance goes as far as the coin pays you, a person’s life and death decided by the weight of one’s purse. While your lips drip with honey, your hand is in another’s pocket. The oath you swore to me means nothing to you, so what is to make me believe you will not betray me to save your own neck?” He motioned toward the bedroom beyond the door. “Just because I allow you to grace my bed, that does not give you a free pass into my circle of trust. So, thief, give me one reason that I should trust you. Assassin.”
She finished her drink and stood up. Looking at him as she set the tankard on the desk between them, she said, “Guess that’s a gamble you’re going to have to take then.”
#
His thrusts grew faster in tempo, the Bosmer’s ass cheeks jiggling with each thrust, the woman moaning as the Imperial’s cock filled her. His grunts became louder with each thrust, the sound of skin slapping skin accompanying the primal grunts the Penitus Oculatus agent was making. His climax quickly approaching, Gaius Maro grabbed the Bosmer’s hair and pulled her head back roughly as he slammed himself in her, his seed exploding in her womb, his fingers digging into her hips as the orgasm vibrated through his body.
He pushed the Bosmer away from him, his cock slipping out her, cum began to drip out of her slit and run down her leg. He grabbed a rag and began wiping himself clean as he stared at her with a smirk on his face. “So much for the superiority of the Mer,” he heckled her. “Don’t get me wrong, honey, you’re beautiful and a great fuck. I’d definitely bring you home to meet my mother, but I don’t have that much gold to spend on you, whore.” He walked up to the Bosmer laying across the bed in the brothel on the outskirts of Windhelm by the docks. “Elven superiority and you’re a whore.” He laughed as he dropped the cum rag on her. “Clean yourself off, honey, and put something on. That Argonian should be here soon with that shit.” He looked back at her. “And don’t think you’re finished yet, slut. I paid for an entire night with you.”
#
Meliandra made her way onto the balcony outside the room Maro was in with the barwench. She had paid the girl a lot of coin to play up to the Imperial, promising her an even greater bonus if she catered to his wanton needs herself. She had paid the Argonian even more coin to bring Maro the highest quality skooma gold could buy. She had planned her part of the job down to the minute for as she stood hidden in the darkness of the window, there was a knock at the door; the Argonian had arrived. Meliandra watched as the naked man made his way across the room to the door, opening it and standing back as the Argonian entered the room. The Argonian was a vivacious woman, dressed in a low-cut blouse and a short skirt, followed by a brute of an Orc.
Meliandra watched as the Argonian sat at the table and began speaking to Gaius, the Orc standing behind his boss. “Got the coin?”
“Of course I’ve got the coin; where’s my shit?”
“Gold first. Then skooma.”
The Imperial gave a slight pout then went over to the pile of clothes in the corner of the room and retrieved his coin purse. Giving it to the Argonian, he replied, “This should cover it.”
The reptilian woman looked in the coin purse and shrugged. “It’ll suffice,” she hissed. She motioned for the Orc to come forward. “You’ll find this to be of the highest quality; it’ll knock your boots off.”
The Orc set a satchel on the table and smiled at the Imperial.
Gaius Maro’s eyes lit up as he reached over and picked up the satchel and looked in. The Argonian smiled as she said, “Go ahead and try it.”
Meliandra watched as the Imperial got his set up out and began to fill the chamber with the skooma. She watched as the main inhaled the vapors created, waiting for the right moment to make her way into the room. Soon he began to show signs of intoxication; he made his way to the elven wench and told her to suck his cock until he was hard again because he wanted to fuck her in the ass. She watched as he thrust his dick into the elf’s mouth; she silently cast her spell of invisibility and crept forward.
In his drug induced haze, he perceived no danger around him or to him. In his drug induced haze, all that mattered was riding the lightning bolt of the high and enjoying what it brought, and right now it was the beautiful elven wench he intended on ravishing all night. He thought nothing of the Orc suddenly beside him, his own cock in his hand as he stroked himself watching the elf give the soldier head. “Suck me off,” growled the Orc.
The elven wench obediently turned towards the Orc and began to suck on him. The Imperial told the woman to get on her knees so he could fuck her; she obeyed and felt the man fingering her ass.
Meliandra crept forward until she stood on the side of the Imperial. She reached over and grabbed ahold of the length of his hair and pulled his head back hard. She saw his eyes widen in fear as he saw the unknown woman in his room.
She laughed as she said, “Should’ve stayed out of the whorehouse” and then dragged the blade of her dagger deep across the man’s throat, spraying them with his blood. Dropping the incriminating letter on the floor next to his now collapsed body, Meliandra smirked and said, “Death to the Empire.”