Karras Adaar's life had been pretty weird these past few months,he had survived an explosion that leveled a mountaintop and killed hundreds by somehow exiting the fade with a green mark on his left hand which was pretty fucking weird, then there was the time he had been named the herald of Andraste because of the very same mark, which of course was also very weird, then there was also the time when he was thrown around by an ancient darkspawn magister and his admittedly pretty badass pet dragon and later being named leader of a religious militia which again was also weird.
But this shit right here took the cake for the weirdest thing that ever happened in his life.
"Why does this shit always happen to me" the tired qunari thought bitterly as he prodded the now infant Cole with the tip of his armoured boot.
He had come home to Skyhold after a long week in the Fallow Mire wading through mud and battling corpse's, Avaar and demons to save some kidnapped inquisition soldiers and the first thing he wanted to do was take a nice,long bath followed by a fresh set of clothes and a nice,relaxing nap in his new bed Josephine had been kind enough to have custom made for a man his size.
Instead he had been persuaded by Vivienne to help her with her reverse aging potion she had been developing for the past month.
Whetever it was his fear or respect for the woman that got him to agree he still wasn't sure.
And then after an aggravatingly long hour of alchemy and herb collecting , the damn thing was finally done and he was ready for a long night of sleep.
But of course then Cole had to show up, the poor boy had only wanted to help the rodents Vivienne had been planning to test the potion on, and insisted on drinking the potion instead.
He of course was not really in the best state of mind due to lack of sleep and exhaustion and so ended up deliriously giving Cole the go ahead.
And so after one downed bottle and a green magic puff of later a much smaller Cole was then located under his now to large clothes.
And well surprisingly it worked, the potion had reversed Coles age.
To the point the kid was barely a foot tall and walking on all fours.
"Was it supposed to work like that". The half asleep qunari asked tiredly to the babbling court enchanter.
"My dear this is amazing,not only did the potion work but it also hasn't collapsed yet and Coles hasn't suffered any lyrium damaged,do you know what this means my dear it-" He had honestly stopped paying attention but he could swear that he heard her squeal with delight like some little lovestruck schoolgirl or maybe it was just all the stress playing tricks on him.
He picked up baby Cole by his armpits while staring at him unsurely.
He noticed that the kid's iconic hat had shrunk with him into child size and was sitting proudly on the man-child's head,which he admitted was pretty damn cute.
He tried taking off Cole's hat to see if there was any head trauma or anything only for the kid to immediately start wailing and pulling on his hat so it stayed affixed on his head.
Addar couldn't help but chuckle at that.
"Nice to see Coles still in there".The qunari thought amusedly.
He then looked at Vivienne seeing her babble some weird magikey shit that didn't seem to be helping the situation at all.
He sighed looking at the man-child's confused deep blue eyes staring into his own silver ones and sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time this past hour.
"Maybe Dorian knows how to fix this" the qunari thought half-heartedly as moved towards the stairs."Maybe then l can actually get some fucking sleep".