“And who is this? A new welp?” “Ah, yes I recognize the stink.” “The hell kind of a name is stranger?”

“Captain Wester's notes indicate he was here with 48 men and women. Of the 49, 11 are uninjured but catatonic, 23 are severely injured, 15 are dead, 9 of those were just returned to us by the Stormcloaks. Among them is Captain Wester himself. We found no felled vampire and no dagger in the area your story points to.”

“If we spread out in a general search we stretch ourselves too thin.” “You yourself are evidence that even our best can't handle this thing alone. If we search we need our shield brothers, safety in numbers, and thats made all the more difficult now that we need to look after these guards.”