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Alistair ([personal profile] bringspeopletogether) wrote2016-06-24 05:18 pm
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[sandbox] out of the abyss

It starts as a shimmer out by the lake. Look at the water from the right angle, and the light glinting off it looks a bit...green. Sickly.

(Familiar, if you're from a certain time and place in Thedas.)

Look up some minutes later, and you can pinpoint the source: a thin, glowing ribbon uncoiling in the sky. It emerges slowly, but the more light it casts, the more momentum it gains, until it explodes outward with an enormous crack like lightning splintering the ground.

A much quieter thump follows as something hits the dirt.

Someone.

The glow vanishes; the person doesn't move for a long beat. (Get up, he's telling himself, get up -- ) He manages to drag his hands level with his shoulders, press down to bear himself upward an inch, look up at where he's landed.

Get. Up.

Another shove, and Alistair lurches to his feet, sword hauled from its scabbard and shield at the ready. His breath rattles, harsh against his throat, as he stares wild-eyed around the grounds.
howtoactfereldan: (Default)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-07-05 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)

"I like it well enough."

Pause.

"The daughter dies. So you're warned."

howtoactfereldan: (they shall be named Maleficar)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-07-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's familiar, the humor gentle and good, and slowly -- very slowly -- Cullen can feel himself growing less tense.

(Cullen isn't Alistair -- more inclined to be quiet, to be still. If it sends Alistair to sleep, so much the better.)
howtoactfereldan: (the least of his children)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-07-06 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
When Alistair falls asleep, Cullen can tell.

He leans his head heavy against Alistair's, letting his own eyes close.





He doesn't know what he's doing wrong. He doesn't -- he's not good at this. This shouldn't be him. But there isn't anyone else.

It's not the first time that's been true.

(The ferocious warmth he feels toward Alistair -- that would surprise him, if he let himself think about it. Every instinct, with laser focus, growling protect.

But that's not to be thought about.)