"Which isn't to say Bosmer can't use blades, but we're largely self-taught. "You can't learn how to use a sword in Valenwood," she says. Lady Benoch, aware of this deficiency in her education, began teaching herself swordsmanship at once. You see, I had no concept of how to fight or how much it took to kill a man." By the time I stopped, when the next watch came to relieve me, my arms were black and blue with strain, there was not a solid piece of him left. "I don't know how many times I stabbed at him.
He was caught off guard, and I wrested his blade away from him." I rushed at him the moment he turned from me towards the sleeping camp of my tribesmen. His mistake was assuming because he had drawn blood and I had fallen, that I was dead. "You always remember the mistakes of your first victim. Of course, he struck first with his blade, and I just fell back in shock." I had my bow at my side, and I just panicked, trying to string an arrow when he was half a yard away from me. "It was a scout from the Parikh tribe who surprised me while I was on camp watch. I didn't really feel like a killer until that wintertide, when I learned what it was like to look into a man's eyes as you spilled his blood. I probably killed a hundred people like that during that summer and fall. It meant no more to me than shooting animals. "I don't remember it very well - he or she was just a blur on the horizon where I aimed my bow. "I killed someone for the first time when I was sixteen," she says now. During the black year of 396, when the Parikh tribe began their rampage through southeastern Valenwood with the aid of powers from the Summurset Isle, Lady Benoch fought the futile battle to keep her tribe's land. She excelled at the sport, and by the age of fourteen, she had joined the hunting party of her tribe as a Jaqspur, a long distance shooter. Lady Benoch is a Bosmer, a Wood Elf, and like her ancestors, took to the bow in her early years. "I've had time to put up my defenses now," she said, her bright green eyes smiling. I was early for the interview, which had taken me nearly six months to arrange, but she gently chided me for not being even earlier.
The first time was at her suite in the palace, on the balcony overlooking the gardens below. I met with her on three different occasions for the purposes of this book. Lady Allena Benoch, former master of the Valenwood Fighter's Guild and head of the Emperor's personal guard in the Imperial City, has been leading a campaign to reacquaint the soldiers of Tamriel with the sword.
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