Since when did Redguards use the Voice? She thought that was a Nord thing.

Storm atronach as a distraction, then slip around the outskirts with a dagger and pick off the vulnerable.

The fight's over soon enough. Lianda heals herself and her sister, confesses to not knowing how to heal vampires, and starts searching the room until she finds the word wall she'd glimpsed earlier. She stands in front of it for a moment, lips moving silently, letting the words sink into her mind until the knowledge of a new word of power bubbles up. 

It'll require a bit of meditation to fully examine, but she can do that while they camp.

"I think this is the final room - " she says, and indeed the corridor out leads to daylight. 

When they emerge, she takes a moment to orient herself and pulls out a map. "It'll probably take us the rest of the day to get near the northwest coast of Solitude, more to explore it properly - do you mind spending the night in Solitude proper? I have a friend we can stay with, so we don't have to bother with the inn."

Elana flips the hood of her cape up before stepping fully outside.

"You don't think they'd mind?"

"...She might pester you with questions about vampirism. Or ancient history. More likely history. She's a - curious sort."

"I doubt that will be problematic. I will need to feed, soon."

"...Does feeding involve killing?"

"Not necessarily, thought that typically minimizes complaints afterwards."

"We can ask the jarl of Morthal or Solitude if there's bandits to be cleared out, or if you don't need too much blood, you can drink from me, I can always heal myself afterwards. And my friend Malielle might volunteer in the spirit of scientific curiosity..."

"Either of the last two sound less bothersome than finding a group of bandits."

"If you can wait until tonight, we can ask Malliele."

"That works, then."

So onward to Solitude! It's about six hours of walking; the roads are only moderately dangerous, on this well-traveled a path. 

She's likely to be more dangerous than anything they might encounter outside of Castle Volkihar.

"I heard you Shout, in the cave back there."

"Yeah. I don't know too many words of power yet, but I'm gathering them as I find more of those old Nordic walls, like that one in the crypt. The Greybeards taught me a few, too."

"I didn't think they let their people off that mountain."

"Yeah. They were reluctant about it, but I'm kinda needed for killing dragons - one big thing that's probably different from your time is that dragons are coming back to life. We're not sure how or why."

"Dragons."

"You're carrying an Elder Scroll, are dragons really the weirdest part of all this?"

"The Elder Scrolls weren't hunted to extinction hundreds of years ago."

"-It's closer to thousands of years for us."

"Yes. Well. All the more improbable, then."

"Yeah. I barely believed her when she told me she'd become Thane of Whiterun on account of killing one."

"Oh really?"

She looks mildly exasperated at her sister. "I had help."

"Did the jarl make them all thanes as well?"