(Collab between me and [@Zhaliora])

 [color=f7941d]" Getting any information about about the marks would be grand!"[/color] Scylla agreed with a smile, pulling her bag and starting to arrange the things within.[color=f7941d]" If we get any information about it, we should keep quiet we have those marks though. Never know if someone might be out for your blood because of those things!"[/color] She said and pulled an empty soulgem, making a displeased expression and putting it to the side.[color=f7941d]" Also getting any info about vampirism will be incredible, but is doubtful to happen... Those things aren't really talked about much. I've listened for years and aside a few false rumors, nothing..."[/color] She added with a sigh.[color=f7941d]" I've wondered if I should ask around the temple, but am afraid they may kill me on sight..."[/color] She said, making a sad smile.

"Agreed," Andiira said and got up from her seat and started walking towards the door. "Are you coming?" She called as she looked back at Scylla, opening the door at the same time. She had already made up her mind to figure out more about this strange mark. If they both had been marked, there was bound to be more; right?

She walked out off the room and downstairs. She figured they could start at the inn they were living at. Andiira almost fell down the stairs as she slipped with her foot. She was still slightly dizzy from the loss of blood. It had drained her stamina a lot more than what she had initially thought. But it was just going to be once or so a week so it was not too bad. Just do it before bedtime. 

Andiira shrugged her shoulders and straightened up her pose and walked downstairs and into the main hall at the inn. She ordered a beverage before finding a table to sit down at. She scanned the crowd. It was your average bunch of people you'd find in an inn in the afternoon, no one stuck out in her eyes. She closed her eyes and started to listen if she picked up anything.

 Scylla was a little concerned about Andiira's condition after she fed on her, she nearly fell down the stairs! It wasn't a nice thing... she was going to have to start feeding on her only before they go to bed from now on... though now a strange thought appeared in her mind... When will going to bed be for both of them?
 
  Scylla was a nocturnal creature... a vampire she usually slept during the day if she slept at all while Andiira was a day walker. [color=f7941d][i]'That's just so confusing.'[/i][/color] She thought and also ordered a drink, just so she has something on the table and not look out of place. Maybe she was going to start doing a semi sleep thing... both of them to go to bed late into the night and sleep till about noon or something? That could certainly work, if Andiira agrees to it at least.
  
  [color=f7941d]"So... nothing interresting as usual..."[/color] She said after a little while of listening for rumors... Sure there were events going on and rumors circulating, but those were about events that didn't concern them... unless they wanted to go daedra hunting or try to stalk the dark brotherhood or something...[color=f7941d]" I say this place is a bust..."[/color] She finally said with a smile.
  
 [color=f7941d]"We can try out luck on the streets... certain elements of society actually know a lot of things... We can try to ask the 'working' girls at the public houses or the corners of the streets... or even beggers... those guys know a lot of what's going on... for the right price."[/color] She said, giving her friend a playful wink.

"Well, you never know until you've tried," Andiira said and shrugged her shoulders. "However dosn't vampires originate from the daedra? Perhaps the cults knows something about it?" A lot of thoughts went through her mind as she was thinking about the options. "As long as I don't have to pay the beggers with my body, we can try that as well," she said and chuckled. And most working girls don't talk much to strangers, and unless you're planning on becoming one, the chances of finding out much there is slim."

Andiira placed her hands in her cheeks and sighed deeply. "The cults might also know about the marks.  There is a possibility that it was a daedric entity that caused it. So I think we should make way there." she said and shrugged again. "That, and on the way to the mountains we can always ambush some bandits for your supply." Andiira winked towards her friend. 

 [color=f7941d]"Ahmmm yeah... they do..."[/color] The vampire replied and made a slightly disturbed expression, partially afraid partlially disgusted.[color=f7941d]" Dealing with the deadra is always a bad thing... no matter what. They rarely hold their side of bargains... Most deadra are evil incarnate... exception being Meridia who still will kill me on sight cause she despises undead..."[/color] Scylla said.[color=f7941d]" So no getting close to cults... unless we wana destroy them or something."[/color]
 
  [color=f7941d]"Hehe... beggers don't need our bodies... they work perfectly well with coins... give them some septims and you usually learn a lot of interresting things that has happened around... No one notices them... so they can basically spy without problem and they do."[/color]
  
 [color=f7941d]"But... if the mark's aren't originating from the daedra they will try to kill us probably.. or sacrifice us... plus it could be mark from another deadra not belonging to a cult we stumble upon. The different daedras rarely like each other so yeah..." [/color]
 
 [color=f7941d]"Well bandits is it... those I actually sometimes take bounty jobs for. It works nice with creating soulgems also... get money, get souls, get fed... a nice three in one, don't you agree?"[/color]

"Either way, even if they don't know, we can always root them out. It probably pays quite good, and we can keep one alive to interrogate for information. Plenty of souls for our business as well, along with the bandits." Andiira's mind was quite set on going to the cults. "We can also gather information about the marks, vampyrism, other rumors and much more on our way up north. There are a few major cities along with villages. Sometimes villages have these stories, myths, which are based in truth or history. Never know what you might pick up."

Andiira finished her drink, starting to feel a little tipsy. She waved over the innkeeper and ordered another drink and started drinking. "I think....that we should take a contract...and kill some bandits...then destroy the cult," Andiira started to sludder a bit in her voice from the drink. 

"I declare us the new cult hunters!" she said and stood up and tried to walk over to the bar but fell over and faceplanted the floor.

 [color=f7941d]"Fine... fine... we will head up north the first thing tomorrow..."[/color] Scylla said before noticing how Andiira was acting. The vampire turned really quiet as her friend tried to stand up. Scylla watched in pure shock as Andiira faceplanted into the floor...! She never knew her friend didn't carry her alcohol! If she knew, she would never have allowed her to drink any!

Andiira tried to get up a few times, but failed to get further than to her knees where she was standing face against the floor and butt up in the air.
 
  The other patrons in the inn quickly got roudy, some of the men making lewd remarks, some directly proposing company for the night to Andiira who looked drunk enough to accept it! 
  
 [color=f7941d] "Alright... that's it for the night..."[/color] The vampire said, leaning over Andiira and pulling her up from under the armpit and finally with an arm by arm over the shoulders, she started walking and pulling her friend towards their room.

"Come on Scrylla, just one more drink," Andiira said and leaned heavily onto Pricilla and tried to walk towards the bar again.
  
 [color=f7941d] "Come on now... time to rest a little... it must have been a long day for you." [/color]Scylla said as they neared the stairs. They walked right by a table of some little drunk men, one of which grabbed Scylla's backside." Come here, sweetie..." He was talking in his delirious drunken state, trying to pull her. She simply replied with a pinch on his hand, causing him to cry in pain as she started walking up the stairs.
  
 [color=f7941d] "Haa... htere we go..."[/color] She said when she finally let Andiira on the bed. She needed to take of Andiira's clothes and have them washed... she reeked of alcohol...

Andiira giggled like a crazy person as she was dropped off in the bed before she was rolled over and she went; "Whee!" as Scylla undid the corset and Andiira kicked off the dress. She rolled back over and hugged Scylla before giving her a slobby kiss on the cheek to which she soon after covered up her mouth and looked at her in a panic. "I think I need to puke..." she said through the palm of her hand as she looked around for somewhere to puke before making her way very slowly and pathetically to the window and hung her face out from it and let it all out.

 Scylla sighed heavily as she watched the drunk woman move over to the window to puke... Hell it was nothing new for such things to happen really. While Andiira was over at the window, Scylla took the blacksmith's clothes and put them in the corner of the room so they don't reek near the bed. 
 
  The vampire then slowly took off her hood and then began unbuckling all the small belts on the leather top she wore untill she was finally able to take it off. It felt nice to feel the air with her skin again, though with her being a vampire, she didn't sweat so it wasn't really a bad experience wearing the form fitting leathers. She then pulled a big white soft shirt from her bag and put it on, before taking off her pants and boots. 
  
  [color=f7941d]"Are you feeling better now?"[/color] She asked after a little while, the girl who was hanging her head by the window, and pulled a cup of water. Sadly potions didn't work on hangover and alcohol... unless it was specialized for that, but she had no such potions on herself.

"A bit..." Andiira said and coughed before waving at someone on the street. Her mind was slowly clearning up from the drunkeness. Quick there and quick off apparently as she slowly stood up straight and accepted the glass of water and drank it slowly. Her body started to shiver and she slowly made her way over to the tub in a corner of the room that was filled with water.

Andiira sat lay down in it and just barely inclosed her body in flames to warm up the water. It seared the tub slightly but not enough to case it to break or catch on fire. As she water finally came up to a comfortable temperature Andiira closed her eyes and focused and the flames died off.

It did not take many moments until Andiira was fast asleep in the tub, her head staying above water due to the small size of the tub. She started to dream. In her dream she was roaming north along with Scylla. She hissed as they came upon some bandits and they launched themselves into the fray, sinking teeth into them as Andiira could feel a wash of pleasure from it.

Her eyes opened again and she looked around with a paniced face, splashing some water around. "Just a dream....." she said quietly and sank slightly lower into the water, but her mind was still on the dream. It had been so vivid, as if she was really there. Andiira touched her mouth, then her teeth before glanzing towards Scylla then back at her feet.

 Scyla let Andiira sleep for a little while in the bathtub, she looked so peacful sleeping in it that the vampire decided not to wake her up... She still was going to bring her out of it soon enough though. Too much staying into water wasn't good for the body, besides it was bound to get colder too. 
 
  That said, Andiira seemed to wake up just before Scylla was about to take her out of the bath, and bring her to the bed. The vampire was surprised at the slightly paniced expression on her friend's face for she seemed to be having fun in her dreams just a moment before... what was she dreaming about?

 [color=f7941d]"Andiira, you okey?"[/color] Scylla asked, bringing in a big towel... it was cheap one that the inn had, but it was more than enough to take off the water off one's body.[color=f7941d]" Here, dry yourself... it's getting colder so you'd better dry up. You can put on that..."[/color] She said and pointed a a big robelike nightgown.[color=f7941d]" I will get your clothes washed up while you sleep."[/color] She said with a smile.

"I'm all right," Andiira said quietly and slowly got up from the tub and wrapped the towel around her body. The dream....it had felt....so alive, so real. She wondered what it meant. Was it bound to happen? She almost laughed at it, that was a silly thing. Scylla was not going to turn her into a vampire in the first place. It was just a silly dream.

She dried herself off absentmindedly, stealing a glance towards Scylla every now and then. Andiira shook her head and sighed before getting into the big nightgown. It was much too big for her and it was sort off just draped over her, the hem of it dragging on the ground. 

Andiira chuckled at it before laying down on the bed and closing her eyes. "Thank you Scylla...." she said with a slight smile. "I guess neither of us have to be lonely any longer." It was something she had dreamt about before, having a friend. She had one before, a long time ago...but she was gone.

She gently grasped the locked on her chest and opened it up, smiling at the picture in it. She only had it open for a few moments until she closed it again and sighed. She could feel a slight tingle in her neck where she had been bitten before. She did not think much about it and slowly lulled back into sleep, that same dream coming back to her.