Edwin held the sword firmly in his hand, to the point where it made his knuckles white. His eyes never straying from the High Elf. Both of them exchanged glances before she spoke up.

"Alright buster, you better tell us where we are and what -"

"If anyone is asking the questions it will be me", Edwin responded coldly cutting her off.

"Oh yeah, who are you to ask questions, who are you the king or something", She snapped rudely.

"I'm a thane", he said bitterly.

"Doesn't sound anything special to me", the High Elf said disrespectfully.

Edwin prepared to respond to that question however the Breton with strange hair answered for him.

"A thane is someone has has a piece of land given by the monarch, if they feel as though this person is well recognized throughout the land, and is widely known as a hero among those who live in the land", she said, adding a smile to the end.

"So?"

"In simpler words, I could have you executed with the wave of my hand, in fact because of your rudeness, I should", Edwin said sternly

"What?, you can't do that", she exclaimed.

"Well technically Rainbow, he can".

'Rainbow, is that her name', he thought chuckling slightly.

"What's so funny?", she asked, irritated.

"Nothing", he said, barely able to contain his laughter.

*SNAP*

All three of them turned their attention to the source of the snap and saw three more Nords in blue armor. A man in his late twenties with short brown hair, a woman in her in early thirties with light red hair up down to her shoulders and a man in his mid fourrties with long blonde hair and a beard.

"Captain, we heard a scream", The woman said.

"That you did, Rienna", he turned to the red haired nord woman, he pointed towards the other women. "Keep an eye on these two, Ralof, where are Thorald and Avulstein?".

"They went to search another area for what could have been making the screaming", he explained.

"well they better be back soon, 'tis getting dark", he warned looking over the trees at the orange sky.

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Twilight looked over to the strangers then back to Rainbow, who had a look of irritation in her eyes, mainly because she was not used to somepony talk to her the way he did.

"Rainbow, are you okay?, you look angry", she asked concerned for her friend.

"Really, you don't say", Rainbow responded sarcastically, she looked up to see a red haired one. "Oh great here comes another one".

"Hello", she said, sitting down on the snow with them. "Sorry about him, he can sometimes be a bit uneasy when it comes to elves".

"You call that being a "bit uneasy", he threatened to execute me", Rainbow complained.

"Well you were being disrespectful towards him", Twilight said.

"Your siding with him on this", she wined.

"Of course I'm not", Twilight responded.

"Oh yeah well it sounds like, to me that you're-"

"Anyway, what are your names", she asked, preventing the argument from getting heated.

"Rainbow Dash", she grumbled.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle, what's your name?", she asked

"I'm Rienna, pleased to meet you", she said.

'Great she hasn't threatened us or said anything insulting, yet', Twilight thought looking at Rienna, who had began talking with Rainbow Dash.  

Their conversation was cut short when two Nords hurriedly emerged from the forest, both of them had gray hair and a beard.

"Thorald, Avulstein, you're back

"Edwin, we need to tell you something", the eldest of the two said.

"what is it?", Edwin asked.

The sound of an arrow being fired interrupted their conversation.

"LOOK OUT"

Edwin jumped out the way narrowly avoiding the arrow that had been shot. He looked up to see a red haired Wood Elf upon an undead horse. The Wood Elf kicked his horse and it jumped at them in the hopes of crushing one of them, which would have worked if Avulstein had not hit the zombie horse with his war hammer killing it and sending the rider across the snow.

The rider quickly regained his senses looked for his dagger which had been thrown a few feet away from him. He scurried towards the dagger but however that was not before Edwin could draw his sword and bring it down into his back, killing the Elf. Edwin pulled his sword from the Elf's back and looked at the others. He realized what he was, he looked back to the others.

"A scout", he called  

"Well that confirms it", Thorald said.

"What do you mean?, he asked nervously.

"There were more of him, sort of like a team, we saw them coming from the north, all riding undead horses like him", he explained.

"I see, Ralof how far is Windhelm?", Edwin asked.

"Three miles", he responded.

"Captain, on feet it will take us too long, we won't make it", Brandon panicked.

"Better then waiting for our death's here", Thorald responded.

"Sir if we are going to run we need to do it now", Avulstein suggested.

Edwin felt conflicted as to what they would do, should they stay and hold out there or run and risk death in the open. He made a quick decision, he turned back to the others and said.

"We run". Next Chapter: challenge Estimated time remaining: 27 Minutes