Wah! Spiders! Big spiders! Big spiders with many eyes! Run… run… run… eh… why are I running uphill?! Wait… someone's calling me!
"Hurry up! Come over here! Take my hand!" A green ghostly woman figure gave her hand to Ellana'ra.
Ellana'ra paused for a second. Running towards a green lady ghost was not really the smartest idea, but still a better choice than becoming spider food. So she held on to Miss Green Ghost…
"Hey! Wake up!"
Ellana'ra opened her eyes in shock and stared into a pair of very angry eyes on a very fierce face.
"Maker! I thought you'd never wake up!" The very intimidating woman shouted into her face. "You tell me! Huh! Tell me why we shouldn't kill you now!"
Okay. So there is something more horrific than gigantic spiders with many eyes.
"The Conclave is gone! Everyone who attended also gone! All dead! Except for you!"
The Conclave... right… I was spying on some major human event when something happened… but what was it? What happened? How did I end up in a dark place with spiders and green ghost instead? And why did Miss Fierce Face feel that I was responsible?
"Slow down! I don't understand a thing you just said! What do you mean gone? Dead? And why am I even responsible?" rebuked Ellana'ra.
"Explain this!" Miss Fierce Face held up Ellana'ra's chained left hand and it glowed.
Wait. Glow? Why is my hand glowing?! Andruil's arrows! Did Miss Fierce Face poison me while I was unconscious?
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Ellana'ra screamed and Miss Fierce Face actually had a shock and stepped back.
"What did you do to my hand?! Am I dying?"
"I didn't do anything!"
"What poison did you feed me with?! Why are you doing this to me?"
"I said I didn't do anything! You came with that! Don't even attempt to confuse me! Say! What is this glow on your hand?"
"Andruil's arrows! I have no freaking idea!"
"You're lying!" Miss Fierce Face grabbed Ellana'ra's collar in anger.
"We need her, Cassandra!" A pretty lady in hood held Miss Fierce Face back, and then walked over to Ellana'ra.
"Do you remember what happened?" Pretty lady in hood asked in a soft tone.
"I only remember running. Gigantic spiders were chasing me. Then there was one green lady ghost… she… reached out to me…" Ellana'ra tried to recall.
"Go to the Forward Camp, Leliana. I'll take her to the rift" Cassandra tapped on Miss Pretty in Hood's shoulder.
So her name is Leliana. Nice name...
Cassandra then unshackled Ellana'ra and pulled her up.
"So what did happen?" Ellana'ra tried to ask again.
"It'll be easier to show you." Cassandra sighed. In a kinder tone now.
Ellana'ra stepped out of the building she was held captive. When she looked up, to her horror, the sky had a humongous ugly green hole in it. Really humongous. Really green.
"We called it the Breach. Apparently it is connected to the Fade. And it is growing, getting bigger everyday." Cassandra explained. "To make it worse, this is not the only rift. There are more rifts scattered everywhere. But this is the largest. We assume that the explosion at the Conclave caused these rifts."
"An explosion can do that?" Ellana'ra asked. She could not comprehend how an explosion can actually put holes in the sky. And what explosion? She still could not remember what happened at the Conclave.
"This one did. And we'd better do something about it. Before it grows so huge that it swallows the whole world."
Then there was a pulse from the Breach and Ellana'ra's hand glowed and a sharp pain spread from her glowing hand to the rest of her body. "AHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Every time the Breach expands, your mark spreads. Hmm… I think it's killing you." Ellana'ra stared at Cassandra unbelievably.
"Please tell me you're joking."
"Maybe. I said maybe. Maybe your hand is the key to stopping this. But there isn't much time to think about it now. We need to go." Cassandra advised.
Ellana'ra knew then she did not have a choice. If she did nothing, the mark might kill her, like what Cassandra said. Even if the mark could not kill her, the rest of the people would think that she was the terrorist that bombed the Conclave and they would kill her. It appeared that the only chance to get out of this mess alive was to help close that Breach in the sky with this mysterious mark on her hand. If it will actually work.