[Fic] Mend, You Homespun Sorrow [10/10] - Complete
Rating: M
Characters/Pairings: Fenris/Hawke, Female Trevelyan/Cullen, Varric, Dorian, Cassandra
Word Count: 3000 this chapter, approx. 45,000 total
Summary: Post-“Here Lies the Abyss.” At the Inquisition’s most desperate hour, Hawke made the choice to stay behind in the Fade.
Fenris refuses to leave her there.
Hawke stands on the highest western tower of Skyhold and shades her eyes with her hand. Overcast today, the clouds grey and thick with the promise of rain, but not yet hung so low she cannot see the craggy mountaintops arrayed before her. Such a wide world. Such a wide, endless, wonderful world, waiting only for her feet to unfold it.
Toby nudges her hip plaintively, and she scratches behind his ears until he sits, leaning hard enough against her legs she must brace herself on the crenellations. The comforting weight of her father’s staff digs into the mortar, and she adjusts her grip along its leather braiding until the old magic hums in her skin again. The wind picks up, cold and smelling of rain; she turns her face into it, letting it blow the hair from her eyes and tease strands from the tail at the nape of her neck.
A good wind. A good rain, soon…
The door at the top of the stairs creaks open behind her, and Hawke turns to see Cullen emerge from the dimness, a bottle in one hand and a book in the other. He looks just as surprised as she feels.
“I’m sorry,” he says after a moment of dumbfounded silence. “I did not realize—forgive me for disturbing you.”
“Not at all,” she tells him with a quick gesture, waylaying his step back into the dark. “Come on, there’s plenty of room for the both of us, if you don’t mind the company.”
He smiles, scarred lip uneven. “Not at all.”
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