As Phaethon reached the road out of the village, he begun being tailed by a man in heavy black robes... How did they get to him so fast? Naturally it would be suicide to confront or even attack him in plain sight. The vampire would just keep on his heels for now.

And... the Thalmor would keep.. on the Vampire's heels?! And trailing some way behind the Thalmor soldier was the red-haired girl! This was becoming some kind of conga line of death leading out of Riverwood! Even the foreigner joined in, and started following the redhead!