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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't think so… Please, tell me what ails you." She was forced to stop as she rose from her bed when the girl closed her eyes and fell to her hands and knees on the hard stone floor, ignoring the possible pain in her knees now, touching her forehead to the flagstone beneath her./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Tanwen forced herself to think back, what had happened to bring her here? The last thing she could remember was… The Conclave at the Temple of Sacred Ashes! She cast her gaze around the room again, she was definitely not there any more. The Temple had been all stone, the room she was in now was made of wood. The girl had mentioned Haven, but she didn't think she had ever heard of Haven before. Something was niggling at the back of her mind, as if something was forgotten that she needed to remember. Frowning, she closed her eyes again to focus on finding her memories forgotten and bringing them to the fore. She needed those memories now, but she was having issue getting past the painful images her nightmares had planted in her head./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Have you gone completely mad? She should be taken to Val Royeaux immediately, to be tried by whomever becomes Divine!" The Chancellor shouted, slamming his fist on a wooden surface./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cassandra backed from the table to move around it and face off with the Chancellor. "We will close the Breach. We will find those responsible, and we will restore order. With or without your approval."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Soldiers lined a path all the way to the Chantry, every few feet, to keep the villagers of Haven at bay. The elf girl who had visited her had obviously alerted the masses that she had risen from her bed. Tanwen had the sudden urge to back up slowly and close the door. But what good would that do her and her goals? So she stood up straight, threw her shoulders back and walked as calmly as she could down the path created for her towards the Chantry. As she passed, the soldiers saluted her with a fisted arm across their chest and heads bowed and she returned their bow awkwardly. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Have you gone completely mad? She should be taken to Val Royeaux immediately, to be tried by whomever becomes Divine!" The Chancellor shouted, slamming his fist on a wooden surface./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"His eyes landed on her when she entered, two of his templar guards coming up behind her. "Chain her. I want her prepared for travel to the Capital for trial."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.1199998855591px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""This is not for you to decide." the man all but shouted as he followed Cassandra's movements with his eyes. Cassandra turned from the chest and slammed a large book with the Chantry's sun emblem with an eye on the cover on the table, similar to the emblem emblazoned on Cassandra's breastplate and the brooch on Leliana's shoulder. Cassandra pointed to the book and looked at Chancellor Roderick. /p
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