I haven’t forgotten about the prompts ;) So here we continue with Merigan... which I haven’t worked with in AGES... and I think it might be time to dig them back up because they changed a little in my headcanon... not much... but things are a little different ;)
So thank you for the prompt!
41. A kiss because the world is saved.
And then there was nothing but silence. All of a sudden the song was gone. It was as if all sound was suddenly drowned out by an overpowering silence.
“It’s over,” were her last thoughts before the deamon’s head crashed to the ground followed by the thud when her own, by far lighter body hit the ground.
Meriana forced herself to roll on her back despite every muscle and every bone, even every patch of her skin hurt like nothing before. And the overwhelming silence was still persistent. Was this how it felt to die? Agonizing pain and frightening silence?
No, she was alive. In endless pain. But alive.
And the song was gone.
A tear escaped the corner of her closed eyes. If the song had fallen silent it meant that it was really over. She couldn’t say if she was relieved that the fight was over or that the song had fallen silent. She had started to feel accustomed to it.
But it also meant... They had won over the darkspawn, the deamons, the unspeakable terrors of the recent months. It hadn’t been in vain.
She forced open her eyes and looked at the bleak sky. And slowly. Very slowly. The sounds of the world around her returned. In the distance she could hear a new song. A song she never had thought to hear again. The trumpets of victory.
The ground around her was rumbling with near movement. She could feel it through her aching body.
“She’s here! By the Maker, she’s here! She’s alive!”
Meriana knew that voice and forced her eyes to focus on the familiar face now leaning over her. “Alistair...?” Her voice was barely a croaked whisper but she carefully held her hand and squeezed it.
“Yes, it’s me. We thought the arch deamon crashed onto your body.” He sounded hoarse, swallowing tears of relief he didn’t want her to see.
The warm glow of healing magic spread through her body, she could feel it through the slowly fading pain. It was not enough to heal all the wounds and mend all the broken bones in her body, but it was enough to let her carefully sit up. Meriana looked at her hands which were stained with black ichor and she wondered if it would ever come off.
“We need to get her to a healer, the wounds need to be cleaned and tended to,” Meriana heard Wynne’s calm voice and tried to locate her through hazy eyes.
“I will personally see to it that our Hero is taken care of,” another very familiar voice said and a moment later she felt a strong hand carefully resting on her shoulder.
“Bann Teagan,” Meriana muttered and looked at him. A smile of relief spread over her lips. “You are well, I was worried...”
“You were worried about me?” he asked with a chuckle. “While you fought the hardest battle of all of us?” His free hand brushed a strand of her dark hair out of her forehead.
“I was always worried about you,” she admitted and leaned her head against his shoulder. She was tired and even with the healing magic her body was still in a lot of pain. Moving hurt. Speaking hurt.
“As I was about you, milady,” Teagan replied in a whisper and leaned down to kiss her forehead. “And if you let me, I will continue to be worried about you for the rest of my life.”
“I think I like the thought of that,” Meriana replied with a weak laugh.
Random Meri and Teagan reuniting on a foggy mountain path... don’t ask me what they are doing there because I don’t know.
It’s the moment of pause before they embrace for a passionate kiss ;)
This is by far nothing elaborate, but it was a lot of fun to draw my two darlings again after such a long time.
For the sake of February 14th tomorrow, I decided to contribute to the random romance ;)
Oh well... it was a welcome excuse to draw Meri and Teagan again. And I was lucky that they decided to talk to me again and cooperate for this small picture :3
For Merigan - Who kisses the ouches, and who says "take a sweater"! ?
Meri kisses the ouches, even when the boys get older and think their mom is starting to embarrass them :P Teagan will just ruffle their hair to cheer them up again.
And I think both, Meri and Teagan are equally the “take a sweater” parents. both always worried they might have forgotten something or end up cold. Their boys will roll their eyes and just agree for the sake of family peace (and because they secretly know it will end up as the coldest day of the year if they don’t take the sweater with them...)
Are you taking prompts?? If so... Who does the baby talk for Merigan!
Meri... at least she would not stop it with other people around. She would still try to talk to her baby boys (@aphreal42 and I kind of always had them end up with twin boys when they had babies in any of the stories we collaborated in) in a regular kind of way, like you would talk to children. Her boys are smart, they wouldn’t need “baby talk”. But she dotes on them and loves them and would just love to cuddle them all the time and that also comes with baby talk.
Teagan would not admit of doing it... Because really... he loves his sons, but he is not going to talk to them like this.But when nobody is around he would end up with baby talk, too, the rare occasions he is taking them to bed.
I just realized that I haven’t drawn Meri and Teagan in January. I drew Meri for some of the OC kiss pictures. But not Merigan D8
That will change in February. Then I will draw them again - maybe not in the way you would expect, but they are on my radar ;)
I miss the two silly-heads - I have not forgotten about them :3
