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Book Information Gaze Into the Distance I
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Found in the following locations: On a bookshelf in House Vlares and Talvanus' house In random loot

Gaze Into the Distance I

by Hassan the Wise

The story of a naive young Argonian who is captured by slave traders

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Her eyes wandered over the broad plain of the desert. So far away that the contours seemed to melt into the horizon, the pyramid shone and painted the contours of Mephala's realm on its face.

'I wonder if someone has possibly been there before? The elders of the village say that it is surrounded by sand dunes and hills, where there is neither water nor life. Not even cactus grow there. So you cannot get water even in this way.'

In the wide area of her own village, Nadmuck knew no other source of water than the well-protected skin of the cactus. The well at the old center had dried up many years ago, before they had ever seen the bright lights of the world.

'Nevertheless, I would like to know how big it really is,' Nadmuck thought, while her longing for the distant thing grew more and more. 'Did Mephala built it himself, or were there people who wanted to pay their respects to the Daedra? Whether it holds a heart? And if so, what it may possibly look like?'

So she spun her thoughts on and on until one day she took leave of her village, her family, and the old man, who tried to hold her back with patronizing eyes. After four days, Nadmuck left the confines of their home and entered a strange territory of the desert, different only by the nature of the sand of the desert known to her. My feet were getting tired and started to hurt when she met a guar caravan.

'Hey, girl, what are you doing out here in this remote part of the desert? And all alone, at that.' One of the guar traders asked her.

'I am on the way to the pyramid,' answered Nadmuck.

The guar traders exchanged a strange look, and the one who had already directed words at her, replied, 'Then you're going to need plenty of water. Here, I'll give you something.' He beckoned to her and opened one of the large baskets that his guar carried on its back. Nadmuck stood beside him and looked inside.

At the same moment the guard trader grabbed her and pushed her into the basket, closed the lid with - by the sound of it - a rope, and laughed out loud. His companions joined in and cried out: 'How could you believe such an inexperienced girl like you could reach the base of the pyramid? There are countless dangers along the way, and you're apparently encountered one of them at the outset. Or what do you think is in the other baskets that our guar carry?'

Nadmuck had to think only briefly, when she finally realized that these were not guar traders, but slave traders who were on their way to Kathar to deliver the captured farmers there.

Thus did Nadmuck's journey to the pyramid end.