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plotted starter for @the-heroines-of-thedas
The air is full of tension as the two Warden-recruits move through the camp, on their way to find something to eat on a brisk afternoon. As they walk, side-by-side, Inara's eyes sweep their surroundings. She notes how a few Templar eyes follow them as they pass.
"Is it weird for you?" she asks Evaline, glancing over at her companion. "Everyone here like this?"
The mage's camp draws Inara's gaze.
"How did they choose which mages to send to the battlefield?"
plotted starter for @aestuum
It seems like good things always ever come with the bad.
Ten years. It's been nearly ten damn years that he's been locked in the belly of Weisshaupt. He came here to report on the status of the Southern Grey Wardens after Adamant. He came here to help.
And Jowin - the First Warden - had locked him up down here. Accused him of inciting some kind of coup, spouting off about ancient magisters, blood magic, and Wardens surviving the slaying of an Archdemon. All he'd tried to do was tell the truth. Get the Order to listen, to respond in some meaningful way! It seemed everyone he thought should act a certain way was determined to act another. Seemed very few of his fellow Grey Wardens ever behaved as he thought they should. As Duncan would have thought they should.
Alistair doesn't know what's happening, exactly, but he knows that it's bad. The whole world seems to be shuddering, and he can hear a voice in his mind. Taunting him.
Is it an Archdemon? He remembers the murmurs, the flashes from the Final Battle in Denerim. The haunting feeling that he'd die, the whispers in his brain telling him he was doomed. But this is...
Clearer.
Worse.
But it brings opportunity when the horrible, angry tendrils of Blight that wind through the cells make the guards panic. They start letting everyone out. Shouting to get a weapon and get to the walls. Everyone. No matter what they're locked up for. They need bodies.
And a body, Alistair certainly is. He follows the panicked masses to the armory, and straps on what armor will fit in a hurry. It's been some time since the weight of more than his tunic has graced his body, and he knows that this will bruise. He takes a sword and a shield.
The fight awaiting them outside is worse than anything he's ever seen. The Blight is huge - angry, grasping. The darkspawn are new and strange, throbbing. Bursting with sick Blight. There's a face in the sky, telling them they're all going to die. And it's not even a dragon.
But there is a dragon. No -- an Archdemon.
The rest is a blur. Everyone dies. Well, nearly everyone. Some of them make it to the library, following shouts that the last stand will be there. He stumbles half-dazed through the maze that is the compound, following scraps of trails from the other Wardens who know the place better as they run. He finds the Joining Chalice from Ostagar on a pedestal.
He laughs a bitter laugh. It's on a pedestal, of course it is. And he's meant to be in the gutter, in the cells. He takes it, stuffs it in a bag over his shoulder.
It seems impossible. Making it to the library. But he does it. The Archdemon lands, and is snared by a dragon trap as he climbs and weaves his way through broken stone and shattered walls.
He watches from one of the towers as the dragon falls, as the First Warden falls, and the dragon rises again. There is - something. Not someone. Raising it. Over and over again.
And then it's over -- no. Worse! The ground rumbles, the Blight swells. Alistair searches for escape, and sees only one. A cluster of bodies, diving into a mirror. A mirror, like the one Morrigan once appeared to him through.
He doesn't have time to think. Would it help if he did? Unlikely. He dives into the mirror, too.
Anything, to survive.
Lyric starter open to ⇉ Males
assume dynamics if you want. Could be friends, ex.es, SO’s best friends, anything.
“Break up with your girlfriend --- cause I’m bored.”
open to anyone | plot inspo is.. well, idk just read it i guess | beta posted
the hotel being overbooked was the last of her worries when the group checked in, everyone feeling too worn out from being cramped together in the car to care about the logistics of how they'd all fit comfortably when each and everyone one of them just wanted to stretch out and lay down. calista was the first to go, having fallen asleep just a few minutes after they'd all dragged themselves into the small suite and laying herself out onto the space most out of the way while everyone else got settled and chose their sleeping arrangements. knowing she'd find someone beside her in the morning, waking up hours before sunrise flustered, flushed, and hot between her thighs wasn't on her bingo card for the night. she didn't even look beside her, only glanced over the darkness of the hotel room before she shifted further under the covers, her arm disappearing seconds later as her hand wandered between her thighs, pressing over the seam of her shorts before slipping beneath them, trying to keep herself as still and silent as possible as she played between her folds - trying to get herself off as quickly as she could before anyone woke up.
🎶 ‘ @hexsreality
❝ There used to be light, but now it’s all empty space. ❞
@prodgl liked for a starter.
Even if the hacker hadn’t been standing right next to her ( before she gave him the shove he needed off the building ), she would have heard his scream through the earpiece loud and clear. Now that the con was over, or at least, now that she had STOLEN what they needed and it was down to Sophie and Nate to finish things off, Parker punched his shoulder, grinning. ❛ C’mon, that wasn’t SO bad, was it? ❜
like this for something small from the purest of beans! <3