With out giving way too much, when you fight off the creatures at the earth forge you are told to go talk to aelif, when you get to her she has her weapons out and their are dead people - unfortunately going up to her and hitting 'e' causes it to flash grey then back to "press e to chat"

I have tired logging out, quitting the game - seeing if the dude at the forge needs to come with me - but even he is bugged from talking to me.

Ideas?

-- Fighters guild quest