They were all making good points. Seryn knew that they would have to cross the White River sooner or later to reach Bleak Falls Barrow. The nearest bridge was in Riverwood and although said river wasn't yet too big or it's current too strong, so that they would probably be able to get through it, he wasn't too eager to climb the following mountain in wet clothes either. On the other hand going through Riverwood would certainly raise some suspicion, since their group was by all means not a common sight in Skyrim - or anywhere else really. None of them being nord or even imperial would be strange enough, but maybe more importantly; Reesh, Gherken and Seryn himself were still partly covered in bandit blood and Arielle seemed still a bit on edge. If someone were to call the guards onto them, they may get into more trouble than they could have handled. However Seryn had lived in Skyrim long enough to know that nords usually kept to themself and knew not to get into someone else's business. Plus smaller fights were not unusual in nordic culture - especially since the whole civil war thing - hence bloody clothing was almost considered a fashion trend by now.
Normally Seryn didn't really care why someone was willing to pay a whole mercenary group just for mead and cut off body parts. He wasn't the 'asking questions' kind of person and Reesh was right; there were enough crazy, rich lords and ladies ready to pay horrendous amounts of money for even more ridiculous objects, even though Seryn had rarely had the pleasure of being assigned these tasks in the past. He had learned a long time ago not to ask too many questions about a job anyway, better for everyone - conscience included. And yet, despite all this, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong either, not since the vamp took the mead from him...
Traveling with three argonians however didn't worry him at all. Jaza seemed to know what she was doing, he was still somewhat impressed of her skills with bow and arrow. Reesh could at least take a heavy hit or two and appeared to have trained this particular skillset for a longtime. The white one, Daleeza, called himself a healer, which would possibly come in handy. Seryn was willing to judge them by their skills, although they'd probably part ways again soon. No matter, he was never too attached to his fellow mercs. There was just one thing he wondered. He knew of lizards which would sacrifice their tail to evade predators and their ability to regrow said tail later. Were argonians also able to perform this trick? He considered asking one of them, but he would probably make it accidently sound like a threat of some sorts. Besides, it was a stupid and unnecessary question. But he kept catching himself staring at their tails more than once afterwards.
Normally Seryn didn't really care why someone was willing to pay a whole mercenary group just for mead and cut off body parts. He wasn't the 'asking questions' kind of person and Reesh was right; there were enough crazy, rich lords and ladies ready to pay horrendous amounts of money for even more ridiculous objects, even though Seryn had rarely had the pleasure of being assigned these tasks in the past. He had learned a long time ago not to ask too many questions about a job anyway, better for everyone - conscience included. And yet, despite all this, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong either, not since the vamp took the mead from him...
Traveling with three argonians however didn't worry him at all. Jaza seemed to know what she was doing, he was still somewhat impressed of her skills with bow and arrow. Reesh could at least take a heavy hit or two and appeared to have trained this particular skillset for a longtime. The white one, Daleeza, called himself a healer, which would possibly come in handy. Seryn was willing to judge them by their skills, although they'd probably part ways again soon. No matter, he was never too attached to his fellow mercs. There was just one thing he wondered. He knew of lizards which would sacrifice their tail to evade predators and their ability to regrow said tail later. Were argonians also able to perform this trick? He considered asking one of them, but he would probably make it accidently sound like a threat of some sorts. Besides, it was a stupid and unnecessary question. But he kept catching himself staring at their tails more than once afterwards.