Rakel waved goodbye to the skaal as Rakel and her pack headed east in search for the first stone that had to have Miraak's curse of
servitude broken in order for Skaal village to return back to normal. Rakel guessed there were six stones in total. They stayed at the
great hall that night before they set out. Rakel opened the door to the great hall and her and the pack stepped inside.
The great hall was at least two skaal houses long. In the middle was a fire pit surrounded by aniamls furs that lay on the wooden
floor, halfway down the hall, there was a stairway that lead up to the sleeping quartes. Lights sat shining in their light sconces set
upon sturdy wooden pillars that rose up out of sight, supporting the ceiling with intricate patterns inlaid on them.
Majni broke the silence that hung in the air
"Well, I'm going to bed we have a busy day tomorrow."
He and his packmates went upstairs to the bedroom, wrapped themselves in the furs that lay on the beds and settled in. The next
morning, Rakel awoke to find Majni, the orphan wolf and Akar were not there to greet her, she went downstairs. She found that they
were at the table in the far corner of the hall eating breakfast.
Majni looked up as she entered the main chamber.
"About time you got up. We feared that you would not get any food. Sit down, we already prepared a place for you."
Rakel did as her brother ordered. She looked down and saw he had laid out a breakfast of horker and ash yam stew, Vension chops,
jazbay juice and a steaming goat leg.
Rakel tore into her food hungrily, bits of food dripped down her mouth as she fed, she ignored the jazbay juice and just focused on
the meat, picking the bones clean. When that was done, she dove into the horker meat and ash yam stew. After finishing her meal,
she asked to be excused, the nords granted her request.
She went upstairs and faceplanted onto the bed, she could hear heavy footstep coming up the stair. must be Majni she thought. She
turned to find Majni standing behind her.
"What do you want?" She asked. Her question hit Majni like a ton of bricks. "I just wanted to...you know, inquire as to why you
didn't help us clear the table? You just got up and left. He sounded annoyed. Rakel answered him by saying she just had to sort
something out.
Majni looked at her like a father who saw clearly through his daughter's lies.
"What?" Rakel asked. "Rakel, you've never been a very good liar. Even when we were children roaming the wilds just
beyond Frostmoon Crag." He stared at Rakel intently, Rakel sighed heavily, "Ok, fine, you have always had a way of getting me to
open up. Well, I ate breakfast, but I did not feel full, but..forget it, it's stupid,"
Majin went over and sat on her bed, "Rakel, you can tell me anything, you know that."
"Majni, I know. Ok, here goes," She took a deep breath, "Majni, I dreamt of mom and dad again." Majni looked at her shamefully.
"Rakel, you swore to me that you would never have that nightmare again, you have to let them go." He turned to her and she
looked at him. "The werebear incident was not your fault." Rakel nodded and thanked Majni four talking to her.
They remembered their primary task hwich was to free solstheim from Miraak's iron fist. They went downstairs to meet the rest of
the pack. They packed lunches and their weapons in separate leather bags. When the essentials were packed, the nord picked up
their packs, put them on their backs and exited the great hall. The nords seperated, each headed in adifferent direction. Rakel
headed for the beast stone and the sun stone, Majni headed for the water stone, Akar for the tree stone and the earth stone and
Hjordis for the wind stone.
Rakel head for the beast stone, she traversed the snowy landscape while she headed south-east of the temple of Miraak. She found
the beast stone and also found enemies who were enthralled by Miraak's spell. They were building an extenstion of Miraak's temple,
expanding his power throughout Solsthiem. She shouted at the stone with her bend will shout. The stone glowed, causing the
structures around it to crumble.
A lurker appeared in the middle of the pool around the stone. The lurker lashed out at Rakel with his poison tendrils. She moved at
behind the Lurker. Rakkel stabbed upwards with her nordic greatsword. The sword pierced the lurker above the butt and it protruded
out of the lurker's chest and quickly moved the sword upwards. The motion cut the lurker in half.
After the lurker was dead, Rakel left the stone area and walked south from her current locaton to Tel Mithryn. Within a few hours,
she reachee Tel Mithryn which was a telvanni tower situated in the southwestern corner of the island. The tower spores blew over
from Morrowind when the Red Mounrtain exploded. The ash air carried the spores from Tel Vos and landed in the southeastern edge
of Solstheim. Tel Mithryn is a twsited tree town that has a winding bark ramp leading up to the front door. On either side of the main
tower are smaller pods with ladders leading up to cracked round brown doors.
Rakel passed the tower and swam out to an island where the beast stone stood majestically, but the magesty was marred by the
ghastly sight of scaffolding surrounding the stone. Rakel reached the island and shouted at the stone. As with the last sone, this
stone crumbed and a lurker appeared. Rakel sliced the creature in half.
Minutes later, Hjordis, Akar and Majni completed their tasks and met Rakel at Tel Mithryn. They then walked north to skaal village.
When they approached, the forcefield that had enveloped the village moments before was gone. Rakel heard chanting coming from
somewhere, she looked down and saw a word of power shimmering blue in the snow. A strange blue and orange light streamed
towards Rakel. The light swirled upwards around her and the within seconds, was greedily absorbed. They approached Storn Crag-
Strider thanked them for dispelling the barrier.
Storn told Rakel to go to a daedric realm known as Apocrypha guarded by seeer of the unseen and knower of the unknown. He told
Rakel the only way to reach Apocrypha was to read a book. He said it had to be a black book, otherwise the teleport spell would not
work.
