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Better Via Worse

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SO COLE AND CASSANDRA WERE TALKING ABOUT WARDEN-COMMANDER CLAREL, AND HOW SHE FELL BECAUSE SHE WAS AFRAID, AND HOW CASSANDRA WONT FALL LIKE THAT.

AND CASSANDRA ASKS HIM IF THERE WAS ANY HIDDEN PAIN IN MAGISTER ERIMOND AND COLE JUST

COLE

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earned the right to happy endings (Dragon Age, Pentilyet, Cole)

This is sort of a coda to cups of sorrow thrown into the ocean.

It’s also… I have always promised myself that I wouldn’t write Cole-talking-to-people-about-their-relationships unless I could do it in a way that treated Cole as a real fully-developed character and not just an ambulatory plot device. So this was my attempt. We shall see if it was successful.

In which Compassion and Faith have a conversation, and Grace awaits.

earned the right to happy endings

“You’re afraid you’re going to hurt her,” Cole says.

If Cassandra was a less single-minded person, that–spoken, in characteristic fashion, out of thin air–might have startled her enough to falter. As it is, her blow falls true on the training dummy, and only after does she say, “What?”

“No,” Cole says. He has… appeared, materialized, whatever it is, perched atop one of the hay bales in the training yard, arms around his knees. “No, that’s not right. You’re afraid that she’s going to be hurt because of you.”

“Cole–”

“Like all the rest of them–Anthony, Byron, Justinia, Galyan, Daniel–”

 If it were anyone else, she would probably have punched them by now. Even with Cole it is a near thing. Her hand flexes on the hilt of her sword. “No,” she says, hard as ice. “Stop.”

“–but it doesn’t make any sense. None of their deaths were your fault.”

“I do not wish to discuss this, Cole.”

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Argent, the Assassin (DA:I ficlet)

Because I am a doofus, I keep forgetting to thank servantofclio for all her help with these ficlets: encouragement, beta-reading, typo-spotting, and more encouragement. Thanks!

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Every night she was not on a mission, Argent trained on the walls of Skyhold. The Inquisition had not been nearly as emphatic about her training regimen as her former masters, but they did not need to be. An important part of being a weapon was keeping herself honed. So every night, she spun from shadow to shadow. Duck and slice, parry and stab, fully extend with the dagger, then jump away and disappear. The guards on the walls never saw her. That, too, was part of the training.

It was unprecedented for her to have an audience when she trained.

He stuck to the shadows, quick-moving and whisper-quiet, but she’d spotted him and stole subtle glances at him as she continued her moves. It was the thin, pale boy from the tavern, the one with all the hats. She’d watched enough to know that he was no stranger to shadows and knives himself. She wasn’t sure how skilled he was with the knives, for she’d only seen him use them on the dying. Some had used their last breaths to thank him for the mercy. It struck her as wrong for people to thank their killer.

She was certain that no one had ever thanked her.

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