and it slips through loose fingers - chapter 33
Rating: E / Fandom: Dragon Age / Pairing: Cullen/OC / WC: 100k / Chapters: 33/?
CW: low self-esteem, depressive thoughts
What happened? She mouthed again, a question in the furrow of her brow. As far as her memory was concerned, it had been Ellana who had almost died. And what of Solas? Cassandra?
“Something incredibly stupid.” Ellana’s voice quaked with anguish though she shed no tears. “You stepped in front of the Despair demon’s attack and took a blow meant for me as if you hadn’t expected the barrier you’d created to do what it was meant to. Did you want to die? Is that it?”
Shaking her head, she took her sister’s hand, desperately squeezing it, but—did she? Did she want to die?
You will only fail, as you always have, as you always will.
Just as you failed all who have laid their trust in you.
And you will fail her, too.
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