Thanks to finding_marie, as always.

Chapter 6
The land around them was changing, as they ventured further south. The dry scrubby forests of the Hinterlands gave way to softer ground and damp, mossy trees. Ophelia was unsure how a land that seemed so much wetter could still be colder, and she dreaded camp that night. It didn't seem as if she had ( Read more... )

“Can I talk to you?”

The words startled her out of a firelit reverie, and she looked up to find Alistair standing in the shadows behind her, shifting his weight from foot to foot like a troubled schoolboy. Some sentry she was turning out to be this evening, if Alistair could manage to sneak up on her ( Read more... )

Ophelia paced the small but well furnished chamber one of the servants had eventually shown her to. Maker’s Shorthairs, what was wrong with her? She shoved a hand furiously through her hair, making her already wild mane even more outrageous. Had she honestly just told off the King of Ferelden? In front of a full assembled court? Ophelia groaned. ( Read more... )

Sparrow song and the creaking of leather saddles were the only sounds heard when dawn finally broke. Of the seven riders on the road, Ophelia was the last one still alert, ramrod straight in the saddle of her horse. The others were too exhausted for idle talk. She made Brennan’s back hurt just looking at her.

“Ophelia.” He pulled his gelding up ( Read more... )

It was strange.

She could have sworn she’d left the Fade already. So then why was she floating along, feeling so detached from her body still? Threnody laid quietly, her eyes still closed. She was afraid of what she would see if she opened them again. Was she out? Or still lost in those misty passages, still searching for things? The longer she had ( Read more... )

FemCousland/King!Alistair

Three years after the fall of the Archdemon, can Cousland and the King put aside their past and their differences long enough to save Fereles from a new threat?

I'd like to thank the wonderful finding_marie for betaing this.

The Rising Son
Chapter One

Sleep had always been difficult, even before the Taint complicated ( Read more... )