A Hundred-Thousand Never Agains
Title: A Hundred-Thousand Never Agains
Series: Dragon Age
Characters: Alistair Theirin, F!Cousland, Morrigan, Flemeth
Words: 1,220
Summary: In the same verse as Brothers in the Night. Post-Ostagar, Alistair goes over what has changed as he waits outside Flemeth’s hut for news of his fellow Warden’s survival.
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The fires at Ostagar were still burning.
They had been the first thing Alistair had noticed after he’d stumbled out of the unfamiliar hut with little more than a rough blanket for modesty’s sake. His eyes had gone immediately towards the ruined spires and then he had fallen to his knees as the flash of the darkspawn charging onto the top floor of the Tower of Ishal ripped through his mind. One hand had clawed at where he knew an arrow had pierced his armor, finding only a scar there to mock him.
Then there had been Morrigan behind him and her explanation that they had been the only ones her mother could save.
Somehow he’d found enough coherency at that point to rise and follow her back into the hut, eyes wide as he watched Flemeth put Karre Cousland back together. Then he’d stumbled after the younger witch as she mentioned clothes and his armor, too stunned and broken to blush when he’d dropped the blanket in his haste to don the familiar splintmail.
Alistair had been drawn back outside after that and he sat on a log near the edge of the pond, his boots half-buried in the murky water. His mind briefly came up with the scenario of some creature coming up from the depths and dragging him down but even that didn’t move him. Part of him ached for such a quick end.