The escape from Helgen was muscle memory. Sneak, steal the key, follow Hadvar, cut through the keep. But when she emerged into the blinding daylight of the Riverwood path, something was wrong.
She walked to the back room. The wardrobe that hid the secret passage to the basement—the one Delphine uses later for the Thalmor Embassy quest—was already open. Inside, instead of a wall, there was a ladder. Going down . The escape from Helgen was muscle memory
The cursor blinked.
Mira tried to interact. Nothing. No prompt, no text. Just the statue’s silent grief. She walked to the back room
It stood at the fork where the guardian stones should be. But instead of the three standing stones—Mage, Thief, Warrior—there was only one. A hunched, weeping figure carved from black obsidian. Its face was a smooth oval with no features, but the hands were exquisitely detailed: long fingers clawing at where eyes should be. Going down
She created her character: a Breton named Sihja. She always picked Breton for the magic resistance. She didn’t know why. Just habit.
Mira laughed. A nervous, brittle laugh. It was a creepypasta. Some modder had buried an Easter egg in Update 13. That was all. Just someone’s idea of a joke.