Exhaustion is all you can feel now. After a long, boring day of patrolling the border of Icewrack you just want to fall asleep now. Why did you even take up this job, you ask yourself. Sure the pay is decent but the isolation is gut wrenching. Perched at the bottom of a large mountain, you see the sizable house that your government so generously gives border guards. Right next to it is a sizable barn for horses, although your only horse died during a clash with raiders about a week ago. When you go inside you take off your winter gear and get out your official log. “Day 15: saw two wolf packs, five bandits who froze to death and tracks belonging to an unknown mammal.” You write in it. After closing your log, you prepare yourself some dinner. Well, it’s not much of a dinner unless you consider a slice of hard bread with a meager amount of butter filling. Time to spend the rest of tonight the same way you have for the past two weeks, you think to yourself; reading from your limited library until you fall asleep with the book in your hands. Four hours later it would seem like you would just do that. As you are about to fall asleep though, you are immediately shaken to your senses by the sound of a large crash not too far from you. It would seem that your shift would see a slight extension today, you think to yourself as you quickly grab your winter gear and go outside.

As you go outside, you notice a large trough where snow normally is going directly towards your barn. You head around the corner of your house, preparing to fight whoever’s trying to raid you. As you reach the barn though you see a single beast. The barn appeared to have slightly cushioned the crash, although the wood is now quite warped from having a 9-foot flying lizard crash into it at high speed. As you approach it, you recognize what showed up. It would appear that a mature-aged wyvern with severe lacerations to its wings and legs must’ve lost its ability to fly due to its injuries. The wyvern slowly lifts its head to look at you before softly saying, “Fancy that, huh. The eldest Eldwurm meeting her end at the hands of a lowly border guard”. An interesting opportunity, you think to yourself. It must’ve been one week since you actually talked to someone and the company would be more then welcome. “No wyvern. Let’s get you cleaned up inside. ” You say as you move beside her to open the barn doors. She slowly crawls in, leaving behind a few books. Some of the book covers are written in some foreign language, but one of them you instantly recognize. “Excuse me wyvern, but I didn’t know you were such a fan of the ‘The Wrath of Lich’ series” you say. She instantly stops and turns around towards you with a smile on her face. “I never knew you were much of a reader, human,” she says happily. “Just put them by the door.” She says, returning to the bar. You go inside with her and begin treating her wounds.

After treating her wounds, you begin to get to know one another. Her name is Auroth, the Winter Wyvern. An Eldwurm who finds intense passion in writing and reading, much like you. Instead of having dinner inside, you choose to have dinner in the barn with Auroth. About two weeks pass, and the two of you become good friends and she replaces your late horse as a companion. Only instead of acting as a mount, you can share your love of literature with this creature. “Day 30: took Auroth out for another patrol, neutralized four groups of bandits using ice magic.” You write in your log. After briefly looting their corpses, you hop back on Auroth to go back home. Halfway through the flight, she begins to lose energy and looks back at you while asking “I’m getting a bit tired and I know of a nice hot spring not too far from here where we could take a break. Should we go human?” You agree immediately, not wanting to pass up on the opportunity to get away from the ball-biting cold and enjoy the only hot bath you’ve gotten in months. The wyvern immediately changes direction and heads for a stumpy, pathetic looking mountain.

The hot spring certainly stands out, as there is absolutely no snow within about 20 meters of it. The spring itself is twice the size of Auroth, and appears almost bottomless. After dismounting, Auroth crawls up to the pool and tests the water with her foot before slipping in. going in headfirst, she appears to be quite the elegant swimmer, popping out on the other side of the pond while smiling and shaking her now soaking wet hair. “Well come on in human, the water is quite lovely.” She calls. You follow her into the hot spring, and she certainly wasn’t lying about the water too! The water is somehow just the ideal temperature for relaxing, while the air bubbles from underneath massage your entire body. An intense feeling of relaxation overwhelms you. You swim over an unusually hot spot in the spring, slightly burning your foot. Auroth, immediately seeing this, swims up to you saying, “Here human, let me cool this down for you.” She freezes your burnt foot and it begins healing almost immediately. A strange object appears to feel its way up your leg and towards your waist. As you look down, you notice that it’s Auroth’s tail that’s feeling you up. “…What are you doing Auroth?” you ask slightly concerned. “Oh nothing, just making sure you aren’t hurt anywhere else.” she says, her tail now feeling up your crotch. “It only makes sense, human. You’re a lonely man and I’m a lonely girl who has her needs. Now let’s say we change who does the riding?” She says, now undoing your pants with her tail and wrapping it around your now erect dick. You push her away slightly saying “Whoa there Auroth, you realize how different we are here right?” she leans in towards you, pressing her snout against your face. Blatantly ignoring you, she grips onto your member with her foot and begins jerking you off “Consider it a returned favour.” She says.