A/N: I'm sorry about the mess with the previous chapters over Christmas. Somehow I uploaded the wrong chapter and it took half a dozen messages and reposting the chapter 3 times -- each of which takes about 4 days to be approved or refused -- before I could convince them to fix it. But it's done, and we're moving on -- the final battle approaches! In respon...
Chapter One Hundred Thirteen: Mourning After a night spent reassuring ourselves with sight, taste, and touch that we were both alive and unharmed, I rose the next morning, tired but feeling better than I'd felt in months. Knowing that battle was hanging over our heads was a heavier weight than I'd thought. Alistair was still asleep, his golden hair slightl...
Hey everyone! Thanks for the lovely reviews and scores. You guys rock! I thought I should point out that there are some 'companion pieces' to this story that I'd sort of forgotten to publish here – there's "Strange World", which is written from Zevran's POV about the threesome he shared with Aedan and Isabela, as well as "Consequences", which is written fr...
Chapter Thirty-One: Necessity Rules Before lunch the next day, a very anxious-looking Swiftrunner was back. He was told to bring us to see the Lady, as I knew he would. He added his own stipulation though – we had to have our weapons bound or leave them behind. I knew it wouldn't be a huge hindrance – they'd never find all of Zevran's daggers, Shale didn't...
Chapter One Hundred Nine: Insurance The next morning, I found a very subdued Aedan sitting by the fire, dark bags under his eyes testifying that he hadn't slept well. No one else was around, though it wasn't that early by our normal standards, and I wondered if the sour expression on his face had scared everyone off. I sat down beside my brother and took h...
Chapter One Hundred Eleven: Overload My nose started pouring blood as I picked up the mana of the fourth emissary. My vision went blurry, my balance was off, and I started to sway unsteadily on my feet. One more, Sierra. Just one more. Not that I had any idea what I'd do with the general once the emissaries were subdued, but I could only take it a step at a...
Chapter 25 - A Different Sort of Fun ***** Ever woken up with five, naked, beautiful women before? I hadn't, and I could only pinch myself as I looked across all five of them. Lyna was still spooned against me, Leliana having turned over during the night to spoon Solona. I managed to hold back the chuckle, noticing Brosca and Sereda were spooning on the ot...
Chapter 3 - The Witch, the (Chantry) Sister and the Dragonborn ***** Waking up in a soft bed in only my undergarments, I ran a hand down my face, trying to remember where I was. The last thing I remembered was fighting darkspawn in the tower. After that, it was all a bit hazy. Glancing to my left, I noticed Cerys fast asleep beside me, also in only her und...
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Love and War In the morning I was, unsurprisingly, exhausted. Morrigan and I packed up, just in case, but stayed put. I ended up dozing by the fire, not sleeping deeply enough to repeat the dreams from the night before. I had just shut my eyes, it seemed, when Morrigan was shaking me, one hand clamped over my mouth. I opened my eyes and...
Chapter Eleven: Separate Ways I took a long, tepid drink from a water skin, mouth puckering from the slightly unpleasant iodine aftertaste, and then watched them all try to talk all at once. It would have been comical if it wasn't so serious. Leliana, Sten, and Morrigan wandered off, probably to let the others decide, since none of them had a vested intere...