25th of Last Seed 4E201
It was nice being around friends again. Sigrid fed us breakfast, and even gave us some soap to use. We both went out to the river, and went far enough away from Riverwood so that no one would spy on us. It took a couple of hours to get the smell of draugr off of us and our clothes and gear. Jenassa cleaned and sharpened her weapons as we waited for everything to dry. I made a few more notes in my journal and practiced some of my spells. Jenassa asked me why I stop to write in this book so much, and I told her that it was to help me remember things that I had learned during my travels, and to keep up with my memories.

We stopped at the trader in town before heading back to Whiterun. I wanted to see if he had any spell books. When we walked in, he was arguing with a woman who I learned was his sister. She was trying to get him to go after someone, but he was against it.I asked what had happened, and he said that some thieves had broken into their store, but they only stole one thing: a solid gold ornament, in the shape of a dragon's claw. I reached into my bag and pulled out the claw from the barrow, asking him if it was his and explaining where we had gotten it in case he thought we were the thieves. He thanked us both and rewarded us with six-hundred septims. I bought a couple of spell books from him, a frostbite spell, and a lesser ward spell. I also bought a ring to fortify your magicka energies, and sold him all of our unwanted spoils from the barrow. I talked to his sister, Camilla, and she said that they had come here from Cyrodiil. She and Lucan, her brother and the store owner, had come here after the Great War ruined everything. I felt bad for them, but I was thankful that they had made it here safely. We said our goodbyes, and they welcomed us to come back anytime we were in town.

On the road back to Whiterun, we ran into a man that looked very sick. He said he was one of the afflicted, and that he would have been dead if not for the protection of Peryite. It seems that their leader here had lost his way, so he was fleeing to High Rock to avoid the wrath of Peryite. He told us that we should look for someone named Kesh at Peryite's shrine if we wanted to know more. The shrine was far to the west, so it would probably be a long time before we ever got near enough to it to see what was going on. I asked Jenassa her opinion on it. She said that Peryite was a daedric lord, and that he was most likely dangerous. But, usually daedric lords rewarded mortals who aided them with unique artifacts, so it might be worth the risk.

We spent a few hours in the market after we got to Whiterun, buying more supplies. I also turned more iron into gold to make more jewelry, in case I needed to sell any. We stopped by Arcadia's too, and she let me use her alchemy lab to replenish our potions.

The sun was starting to set by the time we made it up to Dragonsreach. Farengar was talking to a woman when we got to his rooms. She was wearing a hood, so I couldn't see her face very well. He was happy to get the dragon stone, and the woman seemed impressed that I had managed to get it. I was going to buy more spell books from him, but Irileth ran in and interrupted, saying a dragon had been sighted nearby and we needed to come with her at once. Farengar seemed excited, but I knew better. I had seen what a dragon could do in Helgen. A guard who had come in with her told us about seeing the dragon, and that he ran as fast as he could to warn everyone in Whiterun. He had spotted him near the western watchtower. After telling the guard to go rest, the jarl ordered Irileth to get some men together. The jarl then turned to me and asked that I go with Irileth to help fight the dragon, since I had more experience with them than anyone else here. I didn't bother telling him that I had been wearing rags with my hands bound and running for my life in Helgen, so I didn't really qualify. He also said that he hadn't forgotten my helping Farengar, and  said that I could buy a house in the city now. He also gave me some boots. I sighed and followed Irileth out of Dragonsreach, dreading what was to come.

We stopped near the main gate and Irileth gave a rallying speech to the four guards that were to go with us. One of them kept expressing doubt and fear, but became more optimistic by the end of her speech. I only hoped that this was not the dragon from Helgen. A whole group of imperial soldiers and mages couldn't bring him down, and there were only seven of us going to fight this one. Hopefully I would get to see the sun rise tomorrow.