bodies consist of a central leathery-skinned mass, from which four tentacles extend, each with a paddle-like flare at the end. The larger ones are referred to as “bulls,” the smaller “betties”. Betties have a bulbous, translucent sac full of a seemingly fluid, sapphire-blue substance that surrounds the top half of their central form, ribbed in a bilaterally symmetric pattern by leathery membranes of what must be cartilage. The bulls have this mass covered by thick, overlapping folds of their leathery skin, that cover all but the very bottom of their blue sacs. Due to this heavy barding, the betties are much more nimble than the bulls.

After a while watching spent watching them, I continued east, eventually meeting a merchant who asked for an escort to Molag Mar to meet his business partner there. I had planned to stop in either Suran or Molag Mar depending on my speed of travel, so I agreed. His name was Paur, and he was not good company: not generally talkative, and not very interesting when he was. He spoke Cyrodiilic natively and I have been speaking Dunmeris so poorly so long now that I imagine I made a bad impression in my excitement to not struggle through my sentences.

We reached Molag Mar by evening, the only trouble being some