@tural-amring liked for a starter
‘Pardon me, sir! Have you seen a pair of legs around here?’
The speaker behind the question proved to be an Imperial lady, emerging from a wooden structure set up beneath Whiterun’s Gildergreen tree. The structure looked rather like a miniature, unfinished stage on stilts; the woman rather like she had lost a fight with a sewing box. Her sleeves, which were patched together from various fabrics, were dotted with pins, and a leather strap held thread bobbins against her wrist, most of which were unravelling. She placed her fingers to her mouth for a moment, thoughtful.
‘Small ones, I mean. Oh, this must sound terribly confusing.’ She held up what appeared to be half a marionette, dressed in the uniform of a legionnaire mage, hanging limp from its strings and missing everything below the waist. ‘They belong to this puppet. I was mending it, and I must have misplaced them.’