Mercy, Love, And Other Useless Things

by sarcasticapostate

An account of Niamh Cousland & company's various hijinks across the countryside of Thedas. Crows become companions, your best friend turns out to be a bard, and dinners are poisonous. Written in a series of vignettes with multiple viewpoints. Alistair/F!Cousland.

1. Chapter 1

This Is A Terrible Idea

otherwise known as

Dammit, Alistair, What The Hell Is This Stuff?

Leave, her mother had said.

Do your duty, her father had said.

Join us, Duncan had said.

And now they were all dead and Alistair was trying to kill her with some bizarre stew that was growling at her. And here she thought Zevran would be the one to attempt murder. Turns out she should've been watching Alistair all this time.

"Oh, come on. It's not that bad. You're being dramatic."

She knew joining the Grey Wardens was a bad idea.