18th of Last Seed 4E201
When I woke up, the sun was already up, and my new friend was still there, watching me from the doorway. I got up and stretched, and decided to try to make it to Riverwood. Hopefully there wouldn't me any more bandits along the road. I didn't want to go to the camp I had seen, but I made a mental note of where it was, just in case I decided to return.

I came across a man on the road in armor. I walked by him, only to have him start attacking me! Thankfully he was no match for my companion and I. His armor was too heavy to carry, but he had a few smaller items of value in his hip pouch. I left him by the side of the  road. Some mud crabs attacked us when we stopped at their pool to get some  water. I killed them and took their claws, in case we got hungry later. Horrible creatures. I found a strange glowing plant near the water's edge, and it made a chiming noise. I picked it, in case it was valuable.

I followed a small footpath from the pond, and heard wolves howling nearby. I went the opposite direction that I heard them from, and came across a stone circle with an altar in the middle of it, and skeletons everywhere. The woman there was not happy to see me, and attacked. She didn't last long. I also found more nightshade there, and added it to my collection.

I came across a hunter on horseback, and traded her some of my septims for some food. I couldn't help but be reminded of the hunter who had saved me.

I  found a shrine not too far from the road. There were dead worshippers everywhere, and an altmer wearing robes like the Thalmor at Helgen. He had a note on his body from who I assumed was a superior, chastising him for believing that there was a Talos shrine in the area here. It told him to come back with proof of it, or not at all. I took his robes, cleaning them off in the lake nearby. They looked comfortable, and not scratchy like the ones I'd gotten in Helgen. I took a quick bath in the lake, rested for some lunch, setting my new clothes out on some rocks to dry in the sun.

Further down the road and around a bend, I came across three stones. They each had carvings on them. I touched the one with a carving depicting a mage on it, and it came to life, glowing and shooting a column of light into the sky. The dog just barked at it.

At last, a town! This seems to be Riverwood, that had Hadvar mentioned. An old woman near the gate started yelling about a dragon, and a man near her chastised her for it, saying that people would think she was crazy. If that were my son (he had called her mother) I wouldn't stand for him talking to me that way. I was going to tell him she wasn't crazy, but then I spotted Hadvar and went over to him. His uncle Alvor invited us into his home, and I met Alvor's wife and daughter. She welcomed me, and told me I was pretty, and warned me to stay away from her husband. I sat down and had some food that she brought us while Hadvar told them about our ordeal in Helgen. I held some food under the table for the dog, who had followed me inside and sat at my feet. Alvor gave me some supplies, and asked if I would help them in return for their hospitality. He told me that the Jarl in Whiterun needed to know that there was a dragon on the loose, so he could send soldiers to help defend Riverwood. I decided to stay here for the night, and head there in the morning. Another night in a bed, I could get used to this.