Bloodlines
A completely indulgent AU of an AU mixed with another AU featuring my Solavellan baby, Fenera, and @lateforerebor‘s Dorxus(DorianxTrev) baby, Felix.
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13. The Blood that Binds Us
20 years earlier…
He tries again even though they both know it’s futile. The enchanted wood doesn’t give way beneath his shoulder or boot no matter what force he puts behind each assault. There is only the one door and one window, open and wide without any bars, but it is no easy exit. June’s fortress is far underground and their view is a river of lava surging below. He thinks he could maybe climb the chimney, thinks he can see a patch of light somewhere up there, but he can’t leave. He can’t leave her behind.
They’ve chained Keela to the middle of the floor with some metal he’s never seen before. Copper colored veins strike through it shimmering every time she moves, which is more often than he wishes. The skin of her neck and wrist is red beneath the cuffs around it and every motion seems to rub raw, but she won’t settle, raging and struggling against this constant pain as maddening as an itch that won’t go away. Asca’elgar, she called it, the knowledge drudged up from the Well of Sorrows, but there is no known way to escape this drain on her body and magic. A cruel cage made by cruel gods. Vaxus and Keela are both trapped and the trap, one he suspect Solas is going to walk into willingly. It’s what he would do for the people he loves too.
Anyone wants their heart ripped out today? Read it.
