Shades Of Gray-update 5/1 (Possible Spoilers)
#51
Posté 13 avril 2010 - 08:14
She is gorgeous, and thanks for the bigger pic of her. YAY!
#52
Posté 22 avril 2010 - 10:55
isn't Kasha the name of a health cereal? I could swear it is...not that I'm implying anything.
#53
Posté 22 avril 2010 - 11:19
#54
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 07:41
Gilgamesh1138 wrote...
OH HELLO! I love her eye color.! Actually Kai has black hair and blue eyes, but only because I couldn't get the color green I wanted. I wanted what your Heroine has. That is my eye color. Though I am not even close to that pretty, and my hair is brown. I don't know how to play with the tool set. *sigh* I want to modify my Kai. And I want that eye color! *pouts*
She is gorgeous, and thanks for the bigger pic of her. YAY!
Thankies! I think the eyecolor is from Pineappletree's mod on Dragon Age Nexus, and it can be used in the character creator. For future Kaidana's
http://www.dragonage...file.php?id=153
#55
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 07:43
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Kasha looked around what appeared to be the landsmeet chamber. Only it wasn't, not really. It was the fade. Twice she'd been in this twisting puzzle, both times the unwilling victim of demons. Oh how she hated the fade. Wynne may have felt at home here but not her. She remembered having to save her companions from dreams they didn't wish to leave. Alistair had been the worst. So desperate was he for a real family, the vision of his sister and her children providing him a home, and comfort engulfed him completely. She'd thought she'd lose him then. A voice, coarse as gravel interrupted her mental meandering.
“And here I thought you were a worthy opponent. “ He sneered. “You defeated me, deposed my daughter, slaughtered an army of darkspawn, and an archdemon, made a king out of a boy, yet here you stand. Helpless, cowardly, running away from your duty, as you accused me of doing.”
Loghain. Even in death the bastard haunts her. Kasha turned and fired back.
“Duty. What do you know of duty. I have done more in the last year to protect Ferelden than you ever could have had you been allowed to live. I hunted down and defeated an enemy you never could. Maybe you remember The Architect? He escaped you did he not? He did not escape me. My enemies don't live to come back and hurt others” She spat at the man.
“How True” rang another voice. “She even manages to turn their surviving children against their poor, deceased father's memory”
Howe. Could she never have a good experience in the fade?
“Oh yes, Howe, how easy it is to blame me isn't it? And to forget how cruel you were, even to your own children. They remember, I didn't need to do anything to make them see what a traitorous bastard you were. It was Nathaniel, after all that found the letters in the estate basement. If one wants to keep their facade of innocence in tact, one shouldn't leave correspondence lying around should he? I bear no guilt for your death Howe, nor for your family seeing what you truly were. Be gone!” She commanded, as his spirit faded from sight. Loghain remained however.
“So you feel guilt for executing me then? How odd.” He murmured.
Kasha was silent. Her emotions, once again, as they had a year prior at war with each other. If she'd spared him, Alistair would have hated her, he'd have left. It was written on his face when Riordan had suggested it. Loghain had deserved execution. She knew that with her heart, and her mind. But Anora was standing right there. His daughter. She couldn't stop seeing her own father bleeding at her feet in the larder. Anora became her own face, pleading to not see her father die. On the other hand there was Alistair, staring at the man who had killed his brother, and the man he'd seen as a father, deserving to have the same justice she'd handed out to Howe earlier. Her father's voice had rang in her head telling her duty first, but never had duty been so unclear. Duty to Ferelden demanded he pay for his treasonous crimes. Duty to the Wardens asked for more in their ranks to face the battle to come. Duty to Alistair, her friend, her first love demanded he get satisfaction. The sight of Anora, covered in her father's blood, kneeling beside his body ever left her mind.
“Yes, not for the act itself, you deserved what you got. And you know that. But for your daughter having witnessed it.” She finally admitted.
“Let it go Warden. Anora knew it would happen, if you won the landsmeet. She knew this when she gave her support. As much as I love the girl, our only relationship was blood. I was absent most of her life. She would have done it herself if the roles were reversed and felt no guilt for it.” He said plainly “Move on Warden” and vanished from her sight.
“She is breathing” Said Sten, to the very anxious Mabari. “But we need help. You know what you must do. Go.”
Lethallin took off at full speed. Following the road they'd taken to get this far. He must find her mate.
Sten and Shale gathered Kasha gently, and walked toward what was left of the Tavern in Lothering. After deciding the structure was sound enough, they went inside and found an upturned bed. They placed her on it gently, on her side. The wounds on her back were atrocious. Sten applied what poultices he had while Shale scrounged for more. Sten whispered a prayer that the hound would find Alistair.
“It will live?” Asked Shale
“She is strong of body. It is her mind that must decide” Answered Sten.
#56
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 10:01
#57
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 10:21
Gilgamesh1138 wrote...
I loved how you handled the Fade, and I love Loghain. I really like him, which is a stretch for me. But not in your story. I love how Howe is still a a** hole.
Thanks! I hate the fade so much, and she still has a good deal more of it to deal with before she comes around (both literally and figuratively). her parents are NOT impressed with her at the moment...lol
#58
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 10:40
#59
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 11:19
Gilgamesh1138 wrote...
Uh oh parent aggro!
Indeed...I think the poor girl is about to be "middle named" /shudder/
#60
Posté 30 avril 2010 - 11:44
#61
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 01:35
Westie Approves +100
#62
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 01:49
And Lady J, when is the next chapter, oh sweet lady! I will send you cookies, a snuggie, chocolate? : D
#63
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 02:27
Gilgamesh1138 wrote...
LOL westie, think you posted in the wrong thread. But thank you so much!
And Lady J, when is the next chapter, oh sweet lady! I will send you cookies, a snuggie, chocolate? : D
It's teasing me at the moment...a snippet here, a fragment there...all going in my little notebook. As soon as it explodes, it will be up...lol. Though...now I'm really craving chocolate.
#64
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 03:08
#65
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 04:49
#66
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 05:16
Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 01 mai 2010 - 05:17 .
#67
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 05:18
Gilgamesh1138 wrote...
You want me to give it a glance? Because you are too good a writer for it to be dull or meh. So I know it isn't that.:happy:
That would be great. I'll send it in a message:)
#68
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 05:30
#69
Posté 01 mai 2010 - 06:03
“must keep running, running, running. Must keep running...” Lethallin thought to himself over and over as the scent of 'him' got stronger.
“Well she couldn't have gone far, considering the uhh..freshness of what Oghren stepped in” Nathaniel stated.
“Then we set out tomorrow, at dawn. Hopefully we'll either catch up on the road, or at the very least arrive at Ostagar close behind her.” Alistair said, seemingly a bit hopeful. He'd have taken off right this second, but the group had traveled hard thus far and needed the rest. Especially if, as he hoped, they continued with few stops between here and there.
“I can't believe she took off, armed with only two daggers and a bow” complained Fergus. “I can just her Mother now yelling 'Katherine Eleanor Cousland!' the way she'd done so many times when she'd try to run out to play without her coat and mittens.”
“Oh trust me, even if she hadn't taken more than that she can handle herself. Fortunately, she seems to have taken her swords as well.” Said Alistair.
“And...Katherine?? We've been married close a year and she never told me...”
Fergus laughed “She hates that name so much. She didn't know what her proper name was herself for a time. 'Kasha' was a pet name father picked up in his travels, and it stuck. When he wasn't calling her 'pup' that is. She had been sneaking around the castle, stealing cookies out of the larder when Mother caught her, I think she was all of 5 years. When mother addressed her with her full name, and confined her to her quarters, she threatened anyone with bodily harm if they ever dared call her that. I'd venture now she really could follow through on that threat. Though I never saw her wield swords, when did she learn that exactly?”
“I taught her what I could, and have the scars to prove it. She knew the movements well enough, she just had to adjust a bit for the longer blade. Sten...the Qunari...helped so to speak...” Alistair started.
“Oh you should have seen the big softy!” Giggled Leliana “He'd hold one of his arms straight out, and have my Kasha pull herself up until her chin reached it, and repeat it over and over until one of them wore out. Now, mind you Sten is very stubborn, and has this iron will. And my Kasha as you know, is just as bad, and at the time was trying to prove to him she could fight as well as any man. There were nights we all fell asleep before they quit!”
“This is what I don't understand” Everyone fell silent as Justice spoke up. “In the time I have known her, she faced down dragons, demons, darkspawn by the horde, saved a city that was beyond saving, and foiled an assassination plot...yet she fled over an argument. It just doesn't seem at all like her.”
“Who in their right minds would try to Assassinate the commander?” asked Sigrun.
“That would be me” said Zevran and Nathaniel in unison
Oghren let out a harsh laugh “And you'd think after those two bumbling attempts they'd give up!”
Before anyone else could say anything Alistair had Nathaniel by the throat.
“You...tried to KILL her?” He growled.
Nathaniel remained calm, even with the hand on his throat. “That was my intent when I arrived, yes. But I had changed my mind, and simply tried to take back some family heirlooms. When she found me in the prison, I told her as much. She conscripted me then, and helped me to see what my father had been.”
“Sounds familiar, except for the father thing...no?” Said Zevran.
Fergus put a hand on Alistair's shoulder “He saved my life Alistair, and Kasha's several times over. And he's here now, to help. Let him go”
Alistair relented. She hadn't told him about that.
“At any rate, Justice is right. She isn't acting herself. She's never backed down from a fight. Something is going on, besides this...misunderstanding with Alistair. Anders, do you know anything?” Asked Wynne.
The mage looked uncomfortable. He knew plenty, but he was sworn to silence, and he couldn't betray that. She'd done to much for him. “no, I...don't know anything”
He was saved by the frantic barking of one very large Mabari entering the camp and tackling Alistair. Velanna was ready with a spell, but Zevran held her back.
“That's Lethallin. Kasha's hound!” Fergus exclaimed. “He is upset, but I can't understand him. Noone but Kasha ever could. Something is wrong. He would never willingly leave her side.”
Lethallin was barking, and spinning, running from person to person. Noone understood him. But...this woman might. She smelled different. He didn't know her. He tentatively walked over to Velanna and sniffed. He knew the others, Kasha smelled like them when she came home.
Velanna remained calm, and put a small hand forward for Lethallin to sniff. Everyone in camp stopped to watch.
“I've never seen him approach a stranger like this.” Whispered Fergus.
“Neither have I, not unless Kasha ordered it. This is strange” Replied Alistair.
Velanna put a hand on either side of the large head, and gazed into the hounds eyes. All watched as the two seemed to converse in some strange, silent, manner. Finally Lethallin laid down, and drank from a bowl she filled with water, while she walked over to join the group.
“Kasha is injured. Badly from what I could make out. She is not alone, but she needs healing magic.” Velanna told them.
“But how...” Started Alistair.
“I learned a few tricks from our clan's Halla keeper before my exile. One species isn't so different from the other if you know how to listen. What's important is we get Kasha what she needs. And quickly. I am no healer, but I know a spell that can get myself, and another to her quickly. I would suggest Wynne, as the rest of you are young enough to ride hard and fast behind Lethallin.” Velanna said.
“Well I'd normally take some exception to that age comment from a young upstart like you, but at the moment...Kasha is what's important. I agree” Huffed Wynne.
“Wait, where do we go? Could you understand where she was?” Asked Alistair, still in shock.
“I couldn't understand more than what he remembered about the place. Something...” She looked unsure.
“Just tell us!” Fergus nearly shouted.
And this is where they are going to be convinced I really am crazy she thought before answering.
“Something about a giant in a cage, and dirty pantaloons” She said exasperated and more than a little confused.
“Lothering!” Giggled Leliana.
“Lethallin was so proud when he trotted back to us carrying those pantaloons in his mouth for her. And that's where we found Sten, in the cage!” The bard said.
“Pull up camp, we're leaving. Now.” Alistair said, ready to ride through the black city itself to get to his love.
“Wynne” Velanna asked “Are you ready?”
“Yes. I am” answered the elder woman. As Velanna grasped her arm with one hand, and cast the spell with the other. Vines shot up from the earth, engulfing the pair, and they vanished.
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