#aruvem

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"Hey! Watch were you point that thing!" [timewarp]

You watch where I’m pointing it! You can’t tell me what to do, you’re not a guard. Besides, I was here first, I always practice my swords on this roof, everyone knows that. It’s the best place to try and catch the birds.

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(Time Warp Tuesday) "You sure you can handle that by yourself sera?"

This? Oh, yeah, definitely. This is my big brother Drerrin’s old sword, he used to let me use it for sparring practice. I’m getting better, though I don’t get to spar as much now, because everyone’s busy and the other kids won’t do it because they’re cowards.

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(Timewarp Tuesday) Are there any things about Moraelyn that only you know?

Well... You can’t tell no one, all right? I'll know if you do, I’ll get Aket to sniff you out and I’ll let him claw you up, and I’ll kick dirt in your face and throw you in the river.

Okay... Mori talks sometimes late at night when he thinks I’m asleep, but he isn’t talking to me, it’s to someone I can’t see. I thought he was praying the first time, but it’s more like a conversation than like praying. He says he’s just talking to himself and anyway he hasn’t done it for a long time, but he told me not to tell anyone, not even Mother and Father, especially not them. Sometimes, even though he’s pretty much grown now, he borrows one of my stuffed animals to sleep with when he’s sad, the fluffy fur ones Father brought back from his trip to the Mainland. And this one time, I saw him talking to this old stranger with a blind eye, and he went into a house with him and didn’t come out again for ages.

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(Timewarp Tuesday) Who do you admire most? Do you have a role model?

Saint Felms! He chopped up all the Nords with a cleaver, Mori told me about him when I was still too little to go to Temple. But that’s not really what people mean by role model, unless they’re priests or Father. 

I think maybe Mori, then? He taught me how to fight stuff and tells me great jokes I’m not allowed to tell our parents and brings me stuff from far away. He sings to me sometimes when he’s home, and tells me about the things he’s seen while he’s travelling, and lets me tell him all kinds of stuff even when it sounds stupid. 

Ralias says he’s been really weird since he came back from staying with Uncle Endalyn up in Ald’Ruhn, and sometimes he goes all quiet at the dinner table when Father mentions Khajiit and Mother gives him that look she does? But he says ever since he came back, he can fight really really well. I hope he shows me how to do that thing he does in the mornings with the spear-dancing, I’d love to do that.

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[Sobs] Aruvem! [Sobs] That big wretched cat is being mean to my friend again. Make him stop? Please! [Breaks down crying]

Which one was it? Was it the grey and white one again? Hey, c’mon, don’t cry. He’s always like that.

HEY YOU S’--

--Hold on a bit. Tshh’eh. Mori says if I get into trouble with the cats, I gotta go to the tinkerer cat and tell him or otherwise bad things happen and everyone will get in trouble. Okay, come with me, we’ll go see what the tinkerer cat says, and then we’ll go beat up the mean one and put bitebeetles down his tunic, okay?

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Aruvem, what do you want to do when you grow up? Are you going to be an ordinator like your older brothers and your brother-sister?

Be a pirate! Or a hunter, maybe! Or a soldier like Mother was, I’d be really good at being a soldier, except Mother says you have to be good at following orders and I don’t like that. I wanna be a soldier but the sort of soldier where I don’t get told what to do, and I can go anywhere I want and get lots of money. You know? That kind.

I know it’s really important to be an Ordinator, and Mother and Father would be real happy if I did that so maybe, but I’d get bored a lot, I think. And there’s even more rules for Ordinatoring than there is for soldiering. Drer and Ral are already Ordinators, anyway, and Mori is lots of things still and he’s nearly 55.

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Aruvem, how old are you?

I’m gonna be eleven in a few moons! I’m really looking forward to it, Mori’s on his Pilgrimage and he’s been gone for ages but he sent us a letter and he says that he’ll definitely be coming home for my birthday. I bet he has a really great present for me, last year he gave me this little spear but I’m not allowed to take the mucksponge off the end anymore because I got that Imperial kid in the leg.

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Timewarp Tuesday

This week: Aruvem Ithren, Balmora, Morrowind, 3E 425. Moraelyn’s little sister, pride and joy of her parents, terror of cliffracers. Loves nix hounds, swords and beating up kids that are bigger than her. Ask anything!