Varan walked down the stairs from his room and into the open area of the Bannered Mare, there he met Hulda who was sitting on one of the benches tending to the fire, "I see that you are awake." Hulda said without removing her gaze from the fire.
"Word around the city is that you are a monster, that you should be avoided." Hulda said as she poked the fire, her tone flat and seemingly uncaring. "What of it?" Varan said in his usual emotionless and muffled voice, "'What of it?' Do you not care what people say or think of you?" Hulda asked as she removed her gaze from the fire to look at him.
Varan just stared at Hulda from where he was standing, "No I don't." Varan said simply as he leaned against the pillar, "Why not? Why don't you care?" Hulda asked as her expression became one of worry, "Why do you care?" Varan asked her, his emotionless voice startling Hulda.
"I don't know... maybe it's because every time you return you are covered in blood and snow." Hulda said, she was even questioning herself on why she seemed to care for this man she didn't even know. Varan just stared at her for a moment before nodding his head.
"Is that why people call me a monster?" Varan asked, Hulda just looked at him before nodding her head, "People call you the 'Blood-soaked Knight', a man who leaves the city in the mornings then returns covered in blood by the evenings." Hulda said as she returned to stoking the fire.
"Let them fear me, it just means I can about my work unbothered." Varan said as he left the wall and made his way to the door, "Why are you like this?" Huldas question caused Varan to stop just before he reached the door. He stayed there for a silent moment before opening the door and leaving.
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Varan walked on the empty, snow-covered roads of Whiterun hold, when he went to Proventus to get a bounty he was told that he should come back on another day as there were no current bounties, so he opted to just wander the snow-covered roads as he once did.
As he walked, he felt a wind blow pass him, "Mother Kyne, what is my purpose?" Varan asked the wind as he walked, he knew the Goddess heard him since as soon as he asked that question wind blew in the direction of Whiterun city. "Does my purpose lie in Whiterun?" His muffled voice was filled with emotion, something that it hasn't been for a while.
In steed of the wind blowing, Varan heard a beautiful voice, "Yes my child, if you continue what you are doing in Whiterun you will learn why I sent you there." The beautiful voice of Kyne said as it flowed with the wind. Varan just looked up to the skies in thought.
"Will you ever tell me why?" Varan asked the Goddess as he stopped his walk, "In time my child, but for now just trust me as you always have." Kyne said with a tone that could only be described as loving, "Yes Mother Kyne, I shall do as you say." Varan said as he turned around and made his way back to Whiterun.
"Thank you my child, may Lord Shore watch over you." Kyne said her final words before the winds stopped, and the snow started to fall in a graceful manner onto the lands of Skyrim as Varan walked back to the city in Whiterun.
As he was walking, Varan would occasionally feel a gentle gust of wind blow past him, almost as if Kyne was reassuring him in what he was doing, telling him that what he was doing was right.