"Wait a minute, my friend, so you're saying you think this 'Ancano' took your stuck-up elf friend?" Inigo asked after being told the tale of how she mysteriously vanished.
Hasir sighed in frustration and hid his face behind his hand.
"For Hircine's sake, Inigo I-I don't know, either that or Molag Bal has developed a taste for elf flesh." He said with a particlarly nasty look at the blue khajiit.
The argonian shuddered as a troublesome seed weaved it way into his mental garden.
"Gods... I hope 'that' doesn't happen. I hesitate to think what heavy-handed insult Aela will lay into the Altmer when, or if, she meets her. She might end up shitting wolf puppies upon meeting the Altmer." He gestured to himself, "You know how Aela was like with me. I wonder if there were any Nord-Altmer feuds in her family because Hircine knew there was an Argonian-fueled stormcloud heading my way eventually and it has already rained on my parade."
At the moment, Nanaki came over and inquired as to the tpic of conversation.
"May I ask, er, what you guys are talking about?" He asked, giving them both a quizzical look. He thought for a minute a waved away the thought. "I doesn't matter. Waht does, however, is we are approaching our destination."
Hasir ran to the starbound side and looked northward. Sure enough, they were nearing a city, not Dawnstar, as Hasir was expecting but one he'd never scene before.
Nanaki took a deep breath of sea air and pointed toward the city.
"Lady and gentlemen, er beastfolk," He said as they eyed him reproachfully, "Welcome to Seaview Point. The premier port of call for all Skyrim-bound vessels."
Inigo turned and eyed Nanaki with such force that the red-furred khajiit feared it might send him back to the watery depths.
"Excuse me for prying, but, when have you ever been anywhere on Skyrim? Besides that time 'we' cleaned out Meridia's temple? Answer me that!" He said, arms crossed. "I use the term 'we' extremely loosely as you sent me in there to fetch the sword for you." He said, poking the red-furred khajiit, a bit too hard, in the chest. "A cowardly act if ever I saw one."
Nanaki shook his head, effectively discouraging Inigo to go down that dark road.
"Think no more of it. We are in a new place and, high elf aside, we should turn over a new leaf, effectively burying the past. Let us find Hasir's golden goddess and rid Tamriel of Ancano together, past berievements and grudges aside." He said, smiling over his shoulder Inigo.
The blue khajiit nodded, shaking Nanaki's outstretched hand. He, the argonian, Inigo and Sereyne got up when the ship slowed as it neared the dock. Hasir's scales went white as, next to their ship, there stood the familiar slave galleon complete with deflated sails adorned with cobras amidst a field of deepest crimson.
Hasir pointed to the ship when they walked down the gangplank. He felt his face flooding with angry color as if his eyes were emitting streams of purest hate.
"Inigo, see that ship?" He said in a terrified whisper. Inigo nodded. "That is the Black Adder; the ship that forced me into enslavement just for being an Argonian."
Inigo turned towards him and asked if they should check it out and that, maybe, the golden-skinned maiden was on said ship. In response, Hasir shrugged and snuck closer to the ship. Inigo, battling with the decision of whether or not he wanted to risk detection, reluctantly agreed, forestalling his panic and followed the Argonian.
Once aboard the ship, Hasir looked around the ship as he crouched byh the railing of the ship and motioned for Inigo to do the same. Hasir cast about for any sign of movement, saw nothing and, gesturing for the blue khajiit to stay put, he slithered between the barriers and masts occasionally glancing skyward at the majestically flying serpets. Once he was certain all was clear, he cracked the door at the end of the ship ajar, motioned to the khajiit and they disappeared inside the captain's cabin.
The khajiit and Argonian walked down the steps and found themselves in a large room like the one Hasir'd been in when his sun-kissed flower had been taken from him.
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