She was at home when it happened.
{Summoning Dragonborn-Huntress, [Name not found]}
Or, what she considered home anyway. The College of Winterhold was where she spent most of her time anyway, with the rebellion quashed and some nords slapped after explaining that, Yes the Thalmor specifically denounced Talos to get you idiots to start a war with the empire, he still exists though, so fuck em, she mostly resigned herself to focusing on the Alduin situation.
Now, fighting Alduin wasn't the biggest hurdle that she had faced with stopping the end of the world, it was the aftermath. With the Blades up in arms at the dragons following Paarthurnax's way of the voice (couldn't let them be really, she personally thought that they could do with blowing off some steam) and the rest of the dragons just being dicks and pillaging places cause they had to 'Prove their strength and ability to lead' (Alduin's dead fuckers, just calm your non existent tits). It was a mess. Eventually she had collected enough skulls that those that were still intent on proving how "Strong" they were just fought among themselves for fear of drawing her ire. That seemed to appease the blades and they mostly disbanded or joined up with the companions (which she also sorta ran, though her lack of skill in swords and hammers mostly meant that she handed the job off to Farkas) and she finally relaxed, for lack of a better term.
When she could finally spend the hundreds of thousands of gold that she had saved up, she fixed up the college, built a home close by in Dawnstar, and relaxed. And life was nice, well, as good as it could get anyway.
Though she still felt restless, like sitting down for so long, that pins and needles feeling across her everything. She'd been an Archmage for about three years now, and every single day she longed for the days when she wandered from one end of skyrim to the other. Wrestling bears, collecting frost spider web, being a dick to Draugr, ah... those were the days. But now… day in, day out, paper-work, assuring Nords they aren't trying to replace the nine divines, fighting off the newly escaped student "project" (which more often was actually a Daedra that escaped its bonds but we had to save a bit of face), it was stressful, and not in the fun way. She hated it, she just wanted to leave, and she set things up so that Mirabelle could take over whenever she left.
So when a strange glowing blue portal appeared literally in the middle of her fucking bedroom, whispering about saving the universe again, she took her time in considering her options.
On one hand, she had no idea where it led, no idea what was on the other side, and probably was extremely dangerous as saving the world usually is a dangerous task. She knew mostly because she'd already done it three or four times (if you count stopping a war with skyrim), and she almost died a number of times. I mean, it kinda came with the "Dragonborn" title and all, so she could get that.
On the other hand, No paperwork.
"The nexus is waiting Dragonborn, it is in danger, if it is destro-"
"Ok- First of all, my name is Alyssa. Second, you've said that about a hundred times already. Third, you just seem as sketchy as sherogoth (as the mad god should be). So gimme a sec ok?"
"-yed the universe will end, time is of the essence Dragonborn." The portal finished.
"ALYSSA! AH-LYSS-AH! Call me by my name please!" She decided that this portal was an asshole. But…
No more paper-work…
Shit, she's gonna do it isn't she? She groaned rubbing her eyes. "Okay, I'll help, just gimme five minutes okay? Okay." She pleaded with the portal. She quickly rushed over to the armor stand which was empty save for a single Pendant. The Pendant itself was a simple in its design at first glance, gold chain with a diamond embedded into the Pendant itself. She quickly slipped it off of the mannequin before sliding it around her own neck, under her Archmage's robes. Willing into the Pendant she glowed softly for a moment as she felt the robes seemingly evaporate around her before solidifying into her hand made Dragon scale armor, with her Dragon-Bone bow as well already slung over her shoulder with its quiver full of Dragon-Bone arrows. Now that she thought about it, she was basically wearing a dragon wasn't she? Eh, whatever, she thought as she went around the room picking up various potions, gems, poisons, and food-items before holding it up to her Pendant, watching it disappear with a flash.
Finished with her preparations she quickly ran down the stairs to the Arcanaeum where Mirabelle was giving a lesson. Almost kicking the door open she rushed past the fountain over to Mirabelle, pushing what she thought was a new khajiit student out of the way (she didn't particularly care at the moment), she saw the look of dawning look of horror on the restoration teachers face.
"Archmage? Is it a dragon attack?" She asked with a hint of fear, though her composure didn't let it show to the students, but Alyssa knew her too well and could see through it.
"No Mirabelle. I need a favor." Her smile was probably a bit too wide at this moment.
"Archmage, I'm sure this can wait, I'm teaching a-"
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it can't, and I'm leaving in about 30 seconds so just listen. I hereby grant you the title of Acting-Archmage until I return from…. A place… that I'm going to.... It may be awhile ok?"
"Ah, thank you? Alyssa I- where are you going?" Her head turning to watch as Alyssa walked away, back to the stairwell leading to the archmage's quarters.
"Like I said, needa go, 'Archmage Alyssa' is required elsewhere. Not in elsweyr but- you get my point." And she slammed the stairwell door shut behind her.
It wasn't long before she found herself standing in front of the blue shimmering disk once more, and then....
Stepped through...
--And her mind was consumed by the currents of the universe--
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When awareness came back to her, she was standing in a dark room, the smell of blood permeating it. To her left was a man some sort of button up cotton shirt, stained in blood. To her right, a young man, cut open along the chest and stomach, blood spilling out of him onto the ground, growing into a slowly expanding pool. And in front of her…
In front of her lay a girl, no older than ten. Her blond hair stained with bloody hand-prints as well as her small blood soaked hands, which were clutched around an obviously bruising knee. She reached out, by some unknown instinct, to help her in some way, even just getting her off the ground.
And the Girl took Alyssa's hand…
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