The Elephant In The Room (Issy)

 Prompt: Elephant

“Have you ever seen an elephant?” Baurus asks as we sit at the bar of Luther Broad’s Boarding House, having almost literally run into each other earlier in the day. “Not a real one, but yes.” As a child I had a friend who would carry around a stuffed animal of the creature. They are rather oddly shaped and I wouldn’t want to anger one, but in theory I suppose they are cute. I was always partial to furrier and more cuddly looking animals, like bears. There is no reason for them to look as cute as they do considering they could kill a person easily. “I didn’t think you’d convince me to come all the way here just to talk about an animal I’ve never seen, Baurus.” I tell the blade as I take a sip of my drink. He sighs “You’re right, I suppose it’s time to address the elephant in the room…pun intended.” he pauses and waits for my reaction, to which he gets an eye roll, that was a terrible but very expected pun. “What’s the elephant in the room then?” I question in response he gets up from his seat and gestures for me to follow until we get to a room upstairs to have some privacy. Can’t have just anyone overhearing important Blades business. “Apparently Martin used to be in a cult.” Baurus tells me once the door is closed and locked. No wonder Baurus has been acting strange all day, that is important information. For some reason I’m not surprised though, I always found priests of Akatosh to be just a little cult-like in personality. “What kinda cult are we talking about here?” I curiously ask to which Baurus lets out a sigh somewhere between disappointment and minor annoyance. “Sanguine cult.” the Blade tells me and my first instinct is to laugh, thinking Baurus is joking until his continued deadpan expression informs me otherwise and I stop laughing suddenly. “You’re not kidding are you?” Baurus in reply shakes his head. Well that is certainly interesting information, and Baurus is right the obvious problem of that certainly makes it an elephant in the room. Next time I run into Martin should be interesting, but first I think I may need to pay a visit to the shrine of Sanguine. Investigation into this matter sees like the natural thing to do, even if only for blackmail purposes, and besides, now I’m curious to see what really happened. “So what I’m hearing is we need to go talk to Sanguine about this?” I ask Baurus who has since returned to his typical facial expression and lightened up. He scoffs at the question “Of course, why else do you think I would bring it up?” off we go to get dirt on the bastard emperor of Tamriel then, I suppose. This should be a very interesting adventure, and having Baurus along means even more interesting events are bound to happen. Seeing Martin again will certainly be a conversation of a lifetime, it’s not everyday you get to tell the emperor you know what he did with a Daedric Prince.