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When Jess awakened at the Frozen Hearth Inn, she was still in her clothes from the night before. She couldn't remember anything after taking the Sleeping Tree Sap. When she wandered into the main hall of the inn, Jess saw that Torvar was already up. She couldn't remember why they were in Winterhold, but she remembered the events at Frostflow Lighthouse the day before. When she saw the little girl Eirid, she remembered her purpose - to try to make her Holds safer.

After breakfast, she went to see Malur about additional work. Another bounty, this time at Fort Fellhammer. Good. Maybe she could find a sap dealer along the way. She now regretted selling a bottle to a certain Whiterun distributor.

Jess decided they should go to Dawnstar first and to the fort the next morning. They fought some bandits on the way, but she found no sap dealers. She didn't know how she would buy sap with Torvar along, anyway. After trading in Dawnstar, Jess decided to see Erandur at Nightcaller Temple. Maybe the former follower of Vaermina turned Priest of Mara could lift her spirit. Torvar did not want to enter the temple. Fine, wait outside. Erandur was not much of a counselor, but Jess received a blessing from Mara - a blessing from Mara for a soul owned by Nocturnal.

They returned to Dawnstar and entered Windpeak Inn. Immediately, Jess noticed Torvar taking a long look at Karita, and Jess disapproved. So that's why he didn't want to go in the temple - he wanted to make sure they came back to Dawnstar for the night. She would have to compete with Karita, so after renting a room, she changed into her most revealing dress. Then two single female miners entered the inn. Coming here was a really bad idea. She sat at the bar with Torvar for a while, drinking wine and listening to Karita. Jess was getting bored, but Torvar showed no signs of wanting to turn in. Jess reminded him that they had work to do in the morning and told him not to stay up too late. She had no sap to help her sleep, so she downed another bottle of wine and went to bed.

The next morning, Torvar was already up - or had he gone to bed at all?

Leaving Dawnstar, Jess stopped to trade a few items with a Khajiit caravan, and discreetly asked if they had any sap. They did not, but they had skooma. Jess bought two bottles. Maybe she would try it if she couldn't find sap. Already blessed by Mara, Jess passed by the shrine of Dibella, and felt unfaithful. She always received Dibella's blessing at every shrine. She was wearing her Amulet of Dibella, though - she rarely removed it.

They arrived at Fort Fellhammer. Jess poisoned her bow and tried to sneak up on the fort, but Torvar was spotted. She shot the sentry with a poisoned arrow, and killed him with the second shot. The other bandits were alerted, though, and one charged at them. Jess wounded the bandit and left her for Torvar to finish off, then entered the gate, where she traded shots with an archer, killing him. They sneaked into the garrison and Jess poisoned her bow again. Two shots killed the leader. After they cleared the mine of bandits, they went to the roof and watched the sun set.

Jess decided that they would spend the night at the fort. She did not want Torvar around the women of Windpeak Inn again.

Delia-Jessamine Maric, Breton stealth-mage, continues her campaign to make her Holds safer - and to acquire some more Sleeping Tree Sap. She tried a bottle of skooma that she bought from the Khajiit, but it didn't do anything for her. It certainly didn't help her sleep.

After sleeping poorly at Fort Fellhammer, Jess left with Torvar toward Winterhold. Along the way, she remembered a location that she felt an urgent need to visit - Sightless Pit. She remembered passing the entrance before and seeing signs of Falmer. After Frostflow Lighthouse, Jess was determined to eradicate Falmer from Winterhold. So she and Torvar detoured to Sightless Pit and killed all of the Falmer they found within.

It was already nighttime when they emerged outside, but Jess wanted to check on Aranea Ienith. Months earlier, Jess and Brelyna had assisted the Dunmer woman - it was the last time that Jess and Brelyna had adventured together. Aranea was still dutifully tending to Azura's shrine and repeated her offer to help Jess if she ever needed it. With Torvar already with her, Jess respectfully declined.

They returned to Winterhold and, the next day, collected the bounty for the Fellhammer bandits.

Jess decided to extend their stay in Winterhold in order to continue exterminating Falmer. They checked two more locations: Whistling Mine and Stillborn Cave. Whistling Mine turned out to be an actual working mine - Jess was embarrassed that she did not know that. Still, she worried that the overly-optimistic miners might break through to a Falmer den. Stillborn Cave was an obvious Falmer den, but Jess had passed it numerous times without stopping. By the end of the day, all of the Falmer in Stillborn Cave were dead.

They returned to Winterhold that night and tried to decide what to do next. Perhaps a return to Bleakreach to eradicate the Falmer there. Months earlier, after Jess had been jilted by Brynjolf, Jess and Brelyna undertook an expedition to Alftand and explored some of Blackreach, but had to leave when their provisions ran low. A new expedition would require more provisions than she and Torvar could acquire in Winterhold, however. And she still didn't have any more Sleeping Tree Sap.

Delia-Jessamine Maric, Breton stealth-mage, Falmer exterminator, and sleepless defender of public safety, began a new expedition to Blackreach, this time with Torvar in tow. They intended to do what Jess and Brelyna had been unable to do on the previous expedition for lack of provisions - check every nook and cranny of Blackreach for Falmer and kill 'em all. Along the way she found that killiing the mages at Fort Kastav appeared to have done some good, as a large group of Stormcloak soldiers had moved into the area. Good, maybe they will keep the evil mages away. Then they found Mount Anthor, killed a couple of mages (including an Arch-Conjurer that did not conjure anything and instead used shock spells). At Mount Anthor, Jess found another of the strange billboards that etches indecipherable words into her mind. She has no idea what these "Word Walls" are for, or that she is the subject of a song often sung by bards.

At Alftand and then Blackreach, Jess and Torvar left no area unexplored and no Falmer, chaurus, troll, or spider alive. They did spare the giant, however. At one point, Jess cast a Rout spell on a Centurion Master - it ran away and, oddly, they never saw it again during their explorations. Maybe the giant destroyed it for them. After several days in the cavern, Jess lost all sense of time, and thankfully, was able to sleep again without the aid of Sleeping Tree Sap. She and Torvar took turns sleeping in the single bed at Sinderion's Laboratory. Jess is still being cautious not to give Torvar the wrong idea about the state of their relationship, but she simply told Torvar that one of them needed to stand guard at all times (despite that she and Brelyna did not post a guard while sleeping there previously).

They exited Blackreach using the Raldbthar elevator and found another Dwarven ruin previously unknown to Jess. She decided to return after trading and provisioning in Windhelm. At Raldbthar, they continued Jess's mission to eradicate Falmer, but with a new twist: She was now extending her campaign into a hold where she is not a thane. They also killed a number of bandits, but left alive a strange Breton man who did not seem to care one way or another when Jess sniped the two bandits he was with - it was unclear what his relation to the bandits was, and Jess decided not to risk killing an innocent. They made their way all the way back into Blackreach, slept at Sinderion's, and returned to Windhelm the next day.