The Young Wolf
Inquisitor Lavellan was now one of the most powerful women in Thedas. There was not a single faction that did not owe her and the inquisition their very existence. Ambassadors and suitors filled her hall daily with requests of aid, alliance, or marriage.
In truth she enjoyed this respect and reverence as she sat on her throne. Not in a sense of dominance, but in the idea that she was a Dalish Elf mage who had risen so high in the Shemlen’s world. She was not going to waste this. She was going to use this to build a new place for her people. It would be place where they didn’t have to be afraid, or secretive, or constantly lose their sense of selves to time. They could live in peace with the Shemlen and other races, and not make the same mistakes in the past.
In her mind she imagined her people coming to her safe haven from all across Thedas. Not just the Dalish but also escaped slaves from Tevinter, oppressed city elves, and maybe even some who had chosen the Qun. This was her dream that held almost every hope. It was a far off and hard to reach goal, but to her it was worth a life time of work and sacrifice.
Just one thing still saddened her heart as she sat in her power. The man who had lit the spark of her dream had left, and never said if or when he would return. He showed her massive and ancient Elvehn kingdoms in her dreams. Flawed ones, but still grand and proud. They made her realize her people could be so much more, even more than those memories.
He promised it would all be made clear after she had defeated Corypheus. That she would know why he broke her heart after making her face bare. The broken promise felt like betrayal when it crossed her mind. Sadness and rage built inside her until she pushed the memory aside.
“That is enough for today”, she commanded. And a small sea of people parted for her as she crossed her hall and strode towards the library. Past his old study, with his paintings… all about her. It felt like he learned everything about her, and she learned so little of him.
He taught her much, just not of him. He taught her how to control the fade. To user her mark in order to shape it to her will and to control other people’s dreams. He showed her ancient events lost in oceans of time. But she learned so little about him.
Of course she did know him. She knew his kiss and the way his hands wrapped around her. She knew that no matter his reluctance he would inevitable find his way back into her arms and bed, with little more effort than a look or a touch. A nibble on the tip of his ear or a breath on his neck could make him drop his tomes and throw her to the floor. When he was especially stubborn she would touch herself and bring her finger to his lips. It would not be long after that he called her body a temple and his mouth labored between her thighs.
“Thinking of something naughty?” Dorian drawled from his chair, looking as elegant as ever. Lavellan had not realized that she had been standing on the second floor absently staring into nothing and quickly composed herself.
“No, just a long day. I’m tired. Are you thinking of anything naughty?” She quipped back.
“Oh just filling my time, with time” he said as he swung that damned green amulet that caused her so much trouble at Redcliff. If she could never think of the horror that thing caused again it would be too soon.
Annoyed and frustrated she quickly blurted, “Don’t mess with that!” and snatched the horrible necklace by the chain with her right hand. She looked down at it with revulsion.
Dorian quickly stood up in protest, “I spent years researching it. I just can’t let that go to waste”. But Lavellan was already walking away. But as she looked at it she felt a sudden yearning. She just wished for a second, with all of her being, that she had more time with Solas.
I just want to go back to a time when he and I could be together.
At the moment she thought her wish, she placed the amulet in her left palm and he mark exploded in light. The next moment she was gone, and the amulet fell to the floor.
“I’m going to be blamed for this” Said Dorian.