A new face (Isabelle)

“What on earth are you doing?” I ask Valan as he walks aimlessly in circles “Waiting for someone.” He answers continuing to wander. “For who?” He shrugs “Her names Hui Lin she's from the Morag Tong, we have a contract thingy.” Interesting, personally I find it a bit confusing that they have multiple people working on a case, but who am I to comment. Up ahead I see Samantha followed by a slightly smaller Dunmer women both dressed all in black. Sam calls out to Valan who stops walking, rolls his eyes and yells back. The two women come up to us. “Hello.” I say to the new person who gives me a kind smile though says nothing. “Lin this is Isabelle McKinnion, she's a member of the Dark Brotherhood.” Sam explains and Lins expression changes “But she's nice.” She quickly adds, and in a flash it's back to the smile. She holds out her hand “ I’m Hui Lin. You can call me Lin.” She says a little unclearly though it's intelligible. “English isn't her first language.” Sammie whispers and I nod, makes sense. “Is Ling coming too?” Valan asks, Lin shakes her head. “She's sick.” Sammie rubs her hands together and pulls out a map “Alright, let's get down to business.” Lin and Valan chuckle and add a line from Mulan. “Ha ha ha very funny. We’re supposed to find what we’re looking for here.” I look at the map, there's a red circle around a cave not far from here. “What are you looking for?” I ask “A daedric relic, you can tag along if you want.” Sammie replies nonchalantly. “Lin is an expert on ancient and daedric artifacts.” Valan says and Lin beams “Eno always asks me to weigh in on things involving daedric artifacts, whether or not there's an assassination involved.” She says proudly.

“So shall we get going?” Sammie asks putting the map back into her bag. “Sounds good to me.” The other two agree as well and we set off. Sam asks Lin a question and she walks ahead of us, leading the way and chatting happily along the way to Valan. “Between the two of them and Yuuri or Kit it can be a real handful sometimes.” Sammie laughs as we walk behind Valan and Lin following them on the way to the cave.

“There it is!” Sammie points to the mouth of a cave lit by a couple of braziers just outside of it. “Is there always those lights like that? Because in Cyrodil that does happen. I've seen it in Skyrim occasionally if it's a necromancers or someone like that.” I examine one of the braziers, I wonder how they ended up here anyways. Lin walks inside first lighting a torch followed by Sammie “It seems all clear in the entryway at least.” She murmurs “Doubt it'll stay that way for long.” Lin fumbles through a small bag of notes until she finds what she's looking for “What's it say? I can't read it.” I whisper to Valan who gives me a look “And I'm too far away to read it. It's probably just some of her own notes on whatever it is we're looking for.” Lin looks around the room at the different doorways that lead off in multiple directions then jumps slightly as if she's got an idea and begins to walk down one of the hallways. “So what exactly are we looking for Lin?” Valan asks as we follow her “Something relating to Mephala, I'll tell you more once we find it, we’re not alone.” She says quietly and draws one of her Ebony daggers. She turns around and puts a finger to her lips before heading around the corner and disappearing for a few minutes “All clear.” She says coming back “Not a large amount of guards, surprising. We can continue as normal now.”

Having traveled through more of the rooms we get to the centre of the cave in which lays the artifact we’ve come for. Lin examines it closely for a moment before stashing it in her bag, it's a small blade seemingly made out of some form of enchanted stone. “Tada.” She says in a singsong voice showing Valan and putting it away again. “Time to go home?” He asks as we start heading back toward the city “Unless you feel like poking around more, that's the plan.” He shakes his head vehemently “Eh no thanks...Wanna go get dinner?” I shrug “Might as well. Sam want to come?” Sammie agrees, someone's got to keep the two of us out of mischief. “I want to come too! But only if we can get dessert after!” Lin exclaims rushing up the steps after Valan, Sammie, and I as we exit the Morag Tong headquarters having dropped off the artifact. “You say that like we wouldn't get dessert Lin! Such an idea is preposterous!” Valan responds and gives her a second to catch her breath. “Sure, she's a little bit strange I’ll give you that but she's sweet, you've officially met the sort of new face around the guild.”