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Happy Birthday, Heiwako!

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A birthday gift for my wonderful friend heiwako

This is a scene from her amazing fic you should totally read, Season Unending. You can find the chapters here: 
Season Unending"Dammit, Ulfric got here first," General Tullius groused as he dismounted.
There were two horses bearing the Windhelm colors already in the High Hrothgar stables as the Imperial contingent filed in. With Tullius, Legate Rikke, Jarl Elisif, Jarl Balgruuf, their housecarls, and Ambassador Elenwen's mounts included, the small shed was overly full. The Greybeards had no need for horses, but they had the building for their rare visitors. It was highly unusual for them to have this many guests at once.
"Of course he did," Elenwen said as she smoothly dismounted. "He's much closer than we were, he has a smaller contingent, and he had to be here first to prove his worth."
"He's also not going to be happy that the ambassador is here," Rikke murmured to Tullius. Elenwen smiled, not acknowledging the legate's words. "You know how much Ulfric hates the Thalmor."
"What was I supposed to do, Legate?" Tullius replied lowly. "She's higher ranked than me and has every right to be here. I couldn't exact Season Unending Part 2"It's too loud here."
After weeks of travel, Ulfric Stormcloak and Galmar Stone-Fist had arrived at the main settlement of Legionnaires outside the Imperial City. Thousands of soldiers were here awaiting orders to head out to the smaller camps after their initial training. Army blacksmiths, cooks, couriers, traveling merchants, sycophants, visiting diplomats, camp families, prostitutes, and orphans looking for simple work as fetchers swelled the ranks even further.
It reminded Ulfric of a beehive he had seen once at the marketplace when he was very little. People swarming everywhere with no apparent rhyme or reason. Buzzing conversations of dozens of people discussing everything from squad tactics to tonight's dinner to who was sleeping with whom filled his ears until he felt his head was about to burst.
"What was that, boy?" Galmar asked loudly. "You're going to have to learn how to speak up if you want to be a squad commander."
"This was a bad idea," Ulfric murmured, his hand coverin

Heiwako is an amazing writer and friend, and I really don't know how I would have survived these past few months without her.

Happy birthday, Imperial dog!
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This is great! You did a wonderful job on the coloring and I love how angry Ulfric looks. XD