Event: Face Your Fears ("Tranquil")

[amellsinferno]

It had been strange that Solona had just disappeared from the estate for a few days but then again, she could have just taken a quick trip to the building site of the new Keep and stayed there for a while or returned to Amaranthine for some business. She had left a note but it was quite vague although it was in her handwriting so that couldn't

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This is gonna go so bad :(

[noble_nate]

Nathaniel had been searching for Solona as soon as he found out she left--it wasn't like her to just leave without telling him personally. He refused to give up hope, tapping all of his contacts both in Amaranthine and Kirkwall, and everywhere in between. But as the weeks passed he'd begun to despair.

When he sees Solona walking through the square in Hightown, he's frozen for a moment, afraid to believe what he's seeing. Then he's rushing forward, crushing her in his arms. "Solona! Thank the Maker you're alright!"

AUGH AUGH sometimes I really don't know what I get myself into

[amellsinferno]

"N-nate?" She's unsure what to do. Unsure how to react to his gesture. So she remains there, limp in his arms. "I am, more or less, alright, yes."

I'm here for you, baby!

[noble_nate]

Nate pulls back a little, one arm still hooked around her. He runs his thumb across one of the bruises on her face. "You're hurt. What happened? Where have you been?" He stops himself before the hundred other questions he has spill from his tongue.

*glomp*

[amellsinferno]

"I-- I'm not sure. I can't seem to recall anything." She tries her hardest to read his face. She knows that look. Concern. She should feel something, maybe despair, but in the end it was only just confusion. "I remember just waking up suddenly and I couldn't..."

Ugh! Ugh!

[noble_nate]

Nate's heart starts pounding, something's very, very wrong. She should be hugging him back by now, kissing him--something. "Sol?" he asks, his voice hushed. "Love, what's wrong?"

GAAAAH OK WHAT HAVE I DONE? I ALWAYS REGRET THIS IN THE END

[amellsinferno]

Love. Maker, how did that feeling go again? "Nate," she replies, and knowing she should have felt at least some emotion as she said his name, she doesn't. She remembers how it felt like to say his name: so full of hope, happiness and most of all, pure affection. Yet now, it was completely empty. She stares at him blankly once again. "I can't feel."

You're killing me here

[noble_nate]

"You can't--" He takes her hand and leads her over to a nearby bench. Sitting down next to her he cups her face in his hand once again. "What do you mean you can't feel?"

I'm stabbing myself already.

[amellsinferno]

Solona allows herself to be led to the bench, taking a seat. She watches him take his place beside her. "There should be a mark on my forehead if my suspicions are correct."

At least we've got fluff elsewhere

[noble_nate]

Nathaniel brushes Solona's matted hair away from her forehead. What he sees there turns his blood cold: a small sun.

"Oh, Solona," he moans, a tear slipping from his eye. This can't be happening, it can't be real. "Oh, love. What did they do to you?"

THANK THE MAKER FOR THAT.

[amellsinferno]

"Tranquil, apparently," she replies nonchalantly. She lifts a hand to brush away the tear that fell down his cheek. She stares at it-- a curious thing. It was better, probably, that she would not be able to cry anymore. She remembers that it was sometimes a pleasant thing but overall, crying hurts.

OHMYGOD I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN GO THROUGH WITH THIS

[noble_nate]

Nate pulls Solona against his chest, hugging her tightly. "We can...we can fix this. We can get Anders..." his voice trails off.

I'm just here, curled up in a ball, feeling nothing. ಥ_ಥ

[amellsinferno]

"And then what, Nate?" Solona asks, her body limp in his arms. "We get Anders and then what? You and I both know that this is irreversible."

I don't have enough sadface icons for this thread!

[noble_nate]

Nate shakes his head adamantly. He refuses to believe that. "No. There's a way, I'm sure." His voice drops to a whisper. "There has to be."

HUUUU I AM SINCERELY SORRY! D':

[amellsinferno]

Solona looks up at him, unsure of what to say. This was a man she loved once who loves her in return, and he was in despair. It wouldn't be right to allow him to remain sad.

"I am sorry," she offers, although her words of comfort are empty. "I am not sure how to reverse this. I do not think I would be willing to reverse this unless it requires no pain. This state that I am in, although undesirable in the past is much more bearable."

[noble_nate]

Nathaniel pulls back from her, a shocked expression on his face. "You can't just stay like this, Solona!"

[amellsinferno]

"Then tell me, Nate, if I had any inkling of desire in my being to want this reversed, how would we achieve it?"