Altmer. I offered to buy him lunch, but he had just eaten. I got a loaf of bread for the road and we headed to Pelgiad. Ranis hadn't had the mind to tell me what his scholarship was on, so I chatted with him about his work the whole way there. I wasn't being entirely disingenuous - interesting stuff, just a little over my head. His main thesis is devising a way to make the flow of daedrons visible within oblivion streams, with the inherent knowledge that doing so will let an observer test particular things about the states of those oblivion streams, using change in daedron flow as an indicator.
When we reached Pelgiad, I told
him I would love to read his work, and he gave me the spare copy of his notes that he keeps just in case something happens to the originals, with the condition that I buy him more paper. I bought him a sheaf of paper and myself some rope, and made the exchange.
The Ashlander adventurer I had met a while ago came into the inn while I was doing so, and we said hello again.
I am camped for the evening in a charming clearing, protected from the wind on all sides by an encircling lip of small hills.