Solas tells Lavellan the truth, only to be rejected.
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“Wolf.”
She spits it at him like an insult, as twisted as the delicate trust he had placed in her. It is as bitter as the love that beats in his chest.
He should have known.
Whether her hatred is the result of the deception, or because of the simple fact of who he is, she never gave him the chance to ask. Lavellan had left Solas in the clearing, stunned and half-cracked as she stormed off teary eyed and bare-faced. He had opened his heart to her, told her the truth at the risk of everything he had worked towards, and the proud Dalish elf had responded with tears and t
She starts drinking tea.
It starts two months after his disappearance and their victory. Lavellan lays her head down to sleep one night and finds herself in a wooded area she doesn’t recognise: the sound of a flowing river reaches her ears, but it is too rhythmic, too constant. A bird chirps the same tune over and over, and in the corner of her eye she spots a movement that shouldn’t be.
She has grown up on tales of terror of the dark fur and three red eyes of the dread wolf, but the terror of these tales pale in comparison to the way her heart almost stops beating at the sight of the huge wolf lurking amongst the trees.
The wol
Their dance starts to slow as Lavellan grows sluggish with fatigue, turning smooth circles into a conscious effort on his part to keep her held upright as her tiredness threatens to overtake her.
Solas raises his arm to twirl her gently, hoping to snap her back to reality in the quick movement. But Lavellan, surprising him as always, does not stop when he pulls her back towards him, and the full weight of her tired body presses against him. Still holding one arm out with her hand in his and her other on his shoulder, Solas expects her to jerk back to keep the image of modesty preserved. Instead, she lays her head on his shoulder and keeps it
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4.
Mahariel is getting jittery.
She lets out a heavy sigh and paces between two tents, one hand placed at her throat as she tries to take deep breaths and draw her focus away from the situation at hand.
"Please stop pacing, you're making me nervous." Merrill doesn't look up from the book she's reading as she speaks, and Mahariel simply shoots the woman a hopeless look before resuming her pacing.
"I can't help it. I
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"You do not get a choice in the matter!"
Alan froze.
Really, it wasn't as though he was trespassing, or eavesdropping. He had been sent for and, at finding the Director occupied with another one of the senior members of the London Branch, had been instructed to sit in the waiting area outside the mans office by the receptionist. It wasn't exactly his fault that the conversation on the other side of the door had turned into a heated argument, nor was it his fault he could hear it. Surely the receptionist was far more likely to gossip than he ever was. He wasn't breaking any rules, simply doing as he was told.
Alan had been unable to hear th
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He was scared. William was absolutely livid, and Grell still wasn't ent
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Alan Humphries had, over the last few years, felt more than his fair share of pain. Most of it, however, had nothing against the back of Eric's serrated blade being slammed into his stomach to stop him running forward any further. The wind was knocked from him and, stumbling from the pain, Alan's footing on the roof they were running across dislodged. He fell to his knees, tearing open the trouser knee of his left leg and almost fell sideways off the side of the roof had Eric not grabbed his arm at the last possible second. His scythe clattered down the rooftop and to the floor below as Alan wheezed in pain, feeling his chest ache with the pa