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Orla Mercar (Rook), Inquisitor Asharen Lavellan and Magister Maxima Aurum discuss what to do about Fen'harel now that they have an opening towards Elgar'nan previous drabble

Asharen knew the room was warm, but she felt herself burning while standing there. Morrigan to one side, Émilie to another. Rook and some of her companions pouring over the maps of the city. The copy of the dagger at her hip alongside the real one. To her center and front Magister Aurum stood by the fire, to the left of Dorian and Magister Tilani who spoke in quiet whispers.

Magister Aurum, the only person so far that had made their way from the Archon's palace, seemingly having survived something that had lead all within this room believe any attending magister had died in Elgar'nan's attack. It seemed that it too more than an ancient elvhen God to kill one such as Maxima.

It was her that the Inquisitor followed most closely. The bandages around her wrists and arms growing darker with each passing moment that they spoke. It was not her place, but it was clear that the woman was pushing the luck that had been graced to her upon her survival.

A clicking of the tongue. Maxima Aurum turns from her colleagues and looks squarely at the table, taking a step forward until she is against the surface.

"After everything he has done, I cannot believe we are seriously discussing giving him a potential out." the Magister's voice is loud, louder than one would expect and firmer too, given the woman's injuries. Her face drowned in the darkness as she cut against the flames of the fireplace opposite to where Asharen stood. Quiet, carefully taking notes from time to time, trying to keep her hands and her mind busy to keep the panic and the want to speak out of feeling than her mind with firmer arguments from spilling from her mouth.

But the Magister looked at her, directly, unflinchingly. And Asharen could nothing but stare directly back. Her tone and eyes hold nothing but pure accusation and indignation "To meet him with mercy?"

Her face had started bruising. Her clother simpler, far simpler than she had ever seen anything Maxima Aurum wear. The deep purple and reds on her face, the swelling, the unbrushed hair - for a figure that had been larger than life any time Asharen had seen her, she now looked as she truly was: as fragile and frail as any other person within those same walls. For all the glitter and gold, she bled just the same as the red of them.

Asharen pauses. Placing the quill down. Her light eyes stare back at the Magister's, darker now due to the shadows that sink deeper into her face.

"To meet him with an open mind." the Inquisitor corrects, her tone kept even.

The Inquisitor had, as she would continue to do, brought up the hope that they would not need to trick Solas. And that tying him and his life to keep the Veil up would not be necessary. She hadn't had an answer when asked what other solution could they hope to have. That was what occupied her mind the most now. The swiftly growing panic alongside bile in her stomach.

"He aided multiple groups of wounded into the saf—" she hears Emmrich's voice raise softly. The Inquisitor doesn't look towards him, however, keeping her eyes on the Magister as she saw her expression twist.

"I care not for the mortal conscious or redemption of a would be God that only cares for the people he harms when he is arms deep in their blood!" the magister snaps, pushing herself up, straightening her shoulders with a sneer. Barely giving Emmrich a glance, the human pushes herself off the table, slowly circling around slowly. Bare and dry lips taught into a thin line as bruised hands raised to her forehead.

"Killing him will not fix this." she repeats the same thing she had said to Orla and sees the same flash of anger flash before the Magister's eyes. The truth was simple and cruel, but it was still worth saying. The Inquisitor simply followed the woman with her eyes; however, she felt her knuckles growing colder, the hold upon the quill tighter "Binding his life force to the Veil as it has been discussed will not fix it either."

And with this, she turns to give a significant look to Rook. The Inquisitor holds the gaze, her own lips growing into a thin line that she tries hard to suppress alongside the sadness that pools in the back of her eyes, in the tightening of her throat. It would not fix it, but it could end up being the kindest of the options.

It is cruelty but using a different name. And she knew this. She understood the aspects of it likely better than anyone in that room. But what could she do?

Is this something that I could do? Her eyes fall on the dagger, the real one, for but a second. The terrible thought dawning on her mind like a terrible sunrise. Her eyes fall back down to her own brass hand, resting atop the table. Was it necessary the blood of an evanuris, or adjacent, to bind one's life form to the Veil?

And, if so, could the Well mimic the necessary ingredients and strength well enough? Would she be enough?

"And therefore all is forgiven?!" Magister's Aurum's hoarse voice brings her back to the conversation at the table. The magister's face twists beyond just the swelling and bruising. Finally, she turns to the Inquisitor after glaring at Orla from across the table. Leaning into the wooden surface and maps, "I do not want your Fen'harel dead, Inquisitor."

The magister inhales sharply, painfully, it tenses her body as she keeps talking.

"I want him to be judged for the harm he has done," she keeps talking, but Asharen's eyebrow arches, her lips tightening "the destruction he has wrought upon us all."

Her eyes meet the Magister's, expression slowly shifting, brows furrowing. That was not happening as long as she lived. He needed to restore what was lost, yes, aid in whatever capacity, but not in Tevinter chains.

Émilie softly moves forward, her hand over the pommel of the thin blade and eyes darkening, landing on the Magister. Rook's steps are not audible, not until she steps fully between the Inquisitor and the Magister at the corner of the table they all stood in.

"We have a plan. Magister." Orla's heavy accent echoes across the silent and tense room. The Inquisitor can only see the back of her head, the dark hair pooling at her shoulder. Magister Aurum's eyes remain on the Inquisitor, only after her title is called her dark eyes motion to stare down Rook. Asharen keeps her lips tightly shut, the thin outline of the quill's spine snapped in the closed palm of her flesh hand. Orla continues with a firm tone "Whatever you say isn't going to change it. The Inquisitor has said her piece."

Maxima's brows arch. Her mouth hangs open in a twisted, angry smile for a second. A scoff, pained in nature, is dragged out of her mouth.

"And you—" she turns on her heels, Maxima's voice is kept low accusingly glaring at the two other magisters in the back of the room. Dorian and Maevaris who look at her "— you both agree to this?" she sneers, not waiting for the answer, instead just shaking her head, pushing herself off the table "Un-fucking-belivable!"

And with it, she walks with intent and with the vigor of someone that shouldn't be bedridden out of the door towards where the rest of the injured and dying were. From the outside, she could hear her voice still. Calling for whatever templars were still in the city to form a perimeter outside of the Archon's palace. To get and organize more beds. Her voice cutting through the crowd as she moved beyond the corridor.

Asharen's eyes only move from the door when she feels a warm hand on her shoulder. Dorian looks at her with a worry that makes her stomach drop. It made her feel small, and the shadow that fatigue held over her mind and body grow "I will handle this."

He says simply and then he too is gone with Maevaris in turn. Émilie watches them go and only then does she move once more to Asharen's side, quietly watching the shadows dance from the corridor as more and more people hurried.

"Her father was a cunt," Orla cuts into her vision, her gloved hand motioning to the Inquisitor's flesh one. With her palm up, she asks the Inquisitor to lift it. When she does, Rook takes the broken quill from her hand placing it back on the table without so much of an acknowledgement of the act "I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the cunt tree."

Orla gives the Inquisitor a small smile, meant to give her assurance, perhaps, and yet the Inquisitor felt nothing but a growing sense of dread. A small smile is still given, though her mind is far away and her eyes motion once more to the corridor that would lead them out into the destroyed city. Orla follows her eyes and gives a small sigh "Some fucks really just have nine lives."

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