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After her ship sinks in the far, frozen north, Aithne is forced into servitude.

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Aithne's story

Aithne's story part 83 - Imagine This

Aithne had stopped counting the days. Not that she had needed to count them in the first place – Merks did that for her.   Eleven. She knew it was eleven because Merks knew it was eleven. His thoughts ran on a loop of self-congratulation, ticking off the days like notches on a belt of his own making: eleven days and she's still here. Still mine. I'm so good at this.   He was not.   It had been a mistake to compare him, even in the smallest of ways, to Sutfu. Merks
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Aithne's story part 82 - The Unwelcome Return of Merks

Merks’ thoughts reached Aithne before true waking did, slipping into her chaotic dreams like a serpent.   He had learned -- whether by instinct or by the simple fact that cruelty makes quick study of anything useful -- that silence could be sharpened into a weapon if one held it just right. He always let it settle first, long enough for hope to stir against all reason; long enough for her to begin wondering whether he had gone, or was asleep, or had merely grown bored of the spectacle
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Aithne's story part 81 - Twisted Memories

The teleportation incantation was wrong.   Aithne felt it the moment Merks began the teleportation incantation -- not in the magic itself, but in its density. The spell folded inward on itself, syllables stacking where there should have been release. Teleportation was a bridge, not a knot; a direction, a destination, a letting‑go.   This one closed like a fist.   Her attention snapped fully into focus. “Merks…” she began, already turning toward him, already reaching
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Aithne's story part 80 - Settled In

“This place is rotting my tusks.”   Nyatt said it from the doorway, arms folded, broad shoulders nearly scraping stone on either side. Snow clung stubbornly to his boots despite the heat of the suite, leaving wet crescents on the floor.   Aithne did not look up from the table. “It’s stone. Your tusks will survive.”   Nyatt snorted. “Stone that thinks it’s smarter than me. I don’t like it.”   Chyehye, sprawled sideways across one of the couches with a book
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Aithne's story part 79 - Return to Winterhold

The cold bit differently when it was chosen.   Aithne always noticed that first -- the distinction between weather endured and weather arrived at by will. The College of Winterhold shimmered into being around them in a rush of magic and sea wind, the familiar stone arches snapping into place as if they had merely been waiting for her to remember them. Snow scurried across the courtyard in thin, whispering sheets. The sea roared below the cliffs, patient and eternal.   Aithne
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Aithne's story part 78 - Ashes to Ashes

The teleport home ended wrong.   Aithne knew it before her feet even found the ground. Before the pressure in her skull faded, before the world finished stitching itself back together.   There was a smell where there should not have been one -- smoke, thick and oily, carrying the bitter tang of burned hair and blood. Heat licked her cheeks as if the air itself were alive and angry.   She staggered one step forward and stopped.   The Kwåim was gone.  
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Aithne's story part 77 - Dragon on the Flats

Aithne had attempted to piece together her timeline with Borkul during her time at the College in her previous life. She has calculated she had spent a year and three months, give or take some few days, under his “care”. She had looked over maps of Skyrim, trying to piece together the route they had taken and the amount of time between stops. It was difficult because those months were a big blur in her mind, and none of those blurs was bigger than that of her time in the cave being trained as a
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Aithne's Story part 76 - Korvanjund

“Did you hear something?”   Merks’ voice sounded hollow and muffled from behind his mask, which annoyed Aithne to no end but, of course, she could not ask him to take it off – it had been her idea for him to wear it in the first place, after all. And at least she didn’t have to see his face when he wore it. She shook her head. “Nothing but the echoes of our footsteps. It is as we suspected – there isn't much of value here, in information or resources. Looks like the Imperials did a goo
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Aithne's story part 75 - Rite of Honor

Whenever Aithne had chanced to picture in her head what an orgy might look like, she envisioned music and multitudes of naked gyrating bodies piled on top of one another in one writhing mass of limbs and bodily secretions.   The pubhimej was nothing at all like that. It was, instead, a sort of flirty game.   It started with the six chosen women (“One for each of the commanders of the two sides of the war”), each wearing three layers of sheer material, standing in a circle ar
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Aithne's story part 74 - The Hero

Aithne folded the last of Nyatt’s clothes and pushed the entire bundle to one side, then glanced at Chyehye and said in Orcish, “I think that everything is?”   “’Is everything.’ And yes, until it is time for us to actually move, we are done.”   “It is strange to be moving so soon.”   Chyehye shrugged. “The greater the honor, the larger the house. Although the meyge was not prepared for a new family in ṭi nyi!” She laughed, still delighted, and Aithne gave her a smi
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Aithne's story part 73 - Enter the Makṭu

Chyehye sighed as the dejected trio slumped into their ngot after a long day of fruitless travel. “I did not realize hunting dragons would prove so difficult.”   Aithne shook her head as she collapsed onto a chair and started to pull off her boots. “They are quite something to fight, but I don’t know what you mean - we haven’t even found one yet.”   “This is what I am saying. Hunting and killing are two different things, and of the two, killing is far easier – that is just st
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Aithne's story part 36 - Slave of the College of Winterhold

“What did you do?!” Ghint’s already wide eyes seemed ready to pop out as he stared at Neblii (the slave of the College of Winterhold, not the mage who claimed to have invented mass translocation but whose claims have been widely discredited). “You must have made ol’ Urag mad!”   Neblii shook her head as she scrubbed the bottom of the pot. “It wasn’t him.” I was already a slave, she didn’t add. He just didn’t treat me like one. She bit her lip and forced back a fresh splurge of tears. “
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Aithne's story part 32 - Imagine That

Aithne sighed as she nestled against Urag’s hot skin. She liked the rise and fall of his chest as his breathing stabilized, the sound of his heartbeat throttling down, the contented snort-like rumbles he probably didn’t realize he made, the comforting feel of his arm holding her.   It had been far too long since he had agreed to sex, citing concern for her safety as if her body was somehow more vulnerable after giving birth. Not, of course, that she would dream of complaining about it.
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Aithne's story part 54 - Professor Aithne gro-Shub

“Professor?”   Aithne shook her head at the mess on the table as she sorted the books. Things had changed so much in her time at the College, but students leaving their study material all over the place was one thing that remained…   “Professor!”   The insistent voice stopped Aithne’s thoughts in their tracks and she blinked and turned. Two students, both fourth-years, stood at the side of the table, watching her.   “Oh! Um. Sorry!” Aithne gave herself a l
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Aithne's story part 44 - The Secrets of Saarthal part 1

Aithne could not stop craning her neck – everything she saw seemed like the most interesting thing she had ever seen. The other students were not so enthralled but, of course, they had been here many times before. It was Aithne’s first time in an ancient ruin.   Professor Tolfdir motioned toward various things Aithne could not begin to put a name to as he walked beside her. “Saarthal was one of the earliest Nord settlements in Skyrim. It was also the largest. Sacked by the elves in the
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Aithne's story part 41 - A Day Out

“How are you feeling? You seem down.”   Aithne blinked and looked up from her book as Brelyna sat across from her. “Hm? Oh. Um. Fine. I guess.” She sighed. “It’s just…hard to be free. The world is too big. I don’t know how people cope with it.”   Brelyna laughed. “It’s only been a month. You’ll get used to it in time.”   “I know, it’s just…scary. I can’t face anything past each moment. When my mas…when I was freed, I went back with…with Urag…” she had to drag his na
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Aithne's story part 31 - A Storm of Memories

Aithne balanced the tray on her hip as she stepped into the suite. Urag sat on the bed holding Chtonji in front of his face and making incongruent cooing noises. The baby smiled and gurgled and reached out a tiny green hand to grasp Urag’s tusk, and her Master laughed. Aithne paused a moment to cast a fond look at both before moving to the dining area and setting the table.    Urag entered the room just as she finished and handed her the baby as he passed toward the bathing room. As sh
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Aithne's story part 21 - First Night

Her reverie was broken by sudden noise, and she looked up as alarm coursed the length of her nerves and she shouted silent curses at herself. She hadn’t been paying attention, hadn’t been watching her new Master, hadn’t…   Her self-berating stopped with as abrupt a transition as the panic had inspired.   Aithne had lived most of her life at sea and, when outdoors, could tell the time of day or night in an instant, even when clouds obscured the sky. But there were no windows i
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Aithne's story part 10 - The Other Side of the Equation

Aithne was woken by a touch on her shoulder. She blinked and looked up to see her master standing over her. A warm feeling ran through her body and she smiled at him, the first genuine smile she could remember. He looked momentarily startled – or she might have imagined it – but then his visage shifted to his usual gruff stoicism and he motioned and she pushed herself to wobbly feet.   He watched with an expression that told her that he carried the same concern she was feeling. She wil
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Aithne's story part 72 - Punishment

Aithne’s spouses were already dressed and waiting for her, much in the same way her parents sometimes had when she stayed out too late. She suppressed a giggle at the comparison and stepped toward them. “I’m sorry, that took longer than I expected.”   Nyatt looked troubled, which was better than the rage Aithne had feared (yet somehow also secretly hoped for). He opened his mouth, seemed to think better of what he had been about to say, closed his mouth again, then, finally, “I would h
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Aithne's story part 71 - Home

Aithne had been married to two orcs for two weeks but she still was not used to the idea. There was something so foreign about it all. She lay in the furs of their large bed in their very large ngot – nearly three times the size of Nyatt’s previous home - next to her snoring husband while her snoring wife lay on his other side.   Seven times, she had had sex with her husband while Chyehye was in the vicinity, and seven times the reverse had been true. Aithne had, of course, had sex (or
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Aithne's story part 57 - A Little Problem Named Borkul

The orc heaved a large bag out of the water and flopped it on the ice with a jarring metallic clank without looking away, then spoke in exactly the deep grumbly voice Aithne remembered.   “I have one more load to get. Sit tight – I won’t be long.”   The command coming in that voice sent a jarring trill through Aithne's body. Her mouth snapped closed on any words she might have been tempted to say while her body, already collapsed to a kneeling position, obeyed with an instinc
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Aithne's story part 56 - Splintered on the Ice

Aithne blinked as the world reassembled itself around her. She still felt as if she was flying, though the wind had slowed, as had her body. Nevertheless, the wind that brushed against her face made her cheeks feel mildly chapped from the cold.   Around her, the sea played its constant rhythm, a rhythm that was counterpointed by the familiar creaks and groans of a seafaring vessel. Ahead and just to port, a large iceberg jutted out of the water, its clear ice sparkling in the bright su
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Aithne's story part 70 - Labyrinthian Part 4

[Note: If you haven't already, you will probably want to read this chapter of Sloan's story before you read this  ]     Aithne made sure she had the door knocker/handle/key/whatever it was to Labyrinthian ready in her hand before she transported the lot of them to the front door of the place. The moment they arrived, she inserted it and yanked at the door.   “Quickly, inside. I don’t want to deal with the trolls.”   “Trolls?” Nyatt paused and looked behind him.
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Aithne's Story part 62 - The Steadfast Servant

Aithne came to her senses some unknown time later to the smell of tea. Jazbay, her favorite. She peeked up to find Merks sitting in silence across from her, a teapot and cups placed neatly on the table between them. As she sniffed and lifted her head, Merks picked up the teapot and poured some into the cup nearest her. His mind was a maze of emotions but Aithne blocked them out – she did not want to know what he was thinking.   He had already proven to be the only one in this new reali
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