Elanna collapsed to her knees beside the crib, eyes scanning over Cullen’s limp form in wistfulness. His bloody mutilated body reminiscent of her worst apparitions. The life has seemed to have been seized absent from him, the warmth that once radiated from him subrogated with a foreign gelidity, the presence of death advancing over the man, eager to claim his soul. The elfs hand attentively laced with the humans, squeezing it gently in support, equivalently for her own than his. “Where will we obtain the other supplies he needs?” The inquisitor contemplated, tone edged with desperation “Will we receive them in time?”
The moment before the conflict transacted out in her mind. I had offered to aid him help to which he had declined.’ She reflected ‘I walked away. I should have gone; insisted. I could have prevented this. I could have stopped this.’ “It was my job to protect you all,” the woman uttered in a hushed tone, brow furrowing in despair “and I failed. I failed you.” The closing of the sentence landed as a snarl, self discouragement conquering her.