Chapter One
"Fucking hell Wendy," I groaned, eyes closed and face pressed against an unfamiliar floor. This was definitely my roommate's fault. I shifted, hissing at the pounding that echoed in my head. This is yet another reason why drinking is a bad decision. My mouth was cottony and had the terrible just woken up taste to it.
I pushed up slowly from the ground feeling something sticking to my face and brushed it off. It was dirt and small rocks I realized. Wendy had left me lying outside after finally getting me to agree to go drinking with her.
That actually hurt a little. Maybe more than a little. I actually liked Wendy, now anyway. Her just leaving me somewhere seemed out of character and a little bit of a betrayal.
For all that Wendy was a "party girl" she was surprisingly nice and responsible. She also had an oddly protective streak where I was concerned being that she thought I was a "small baby child freshman". Hell, she'd even volunteered to be DD to ensure that I was taken care of. It didn't actually make much sense for her to abandon me unless she really had been playing with me all year.
Either way, I needed to ignore the pounding headache starting up and find my way home to lick my wounds.
I squinted using my hands to steady myself and saw the unfamiliar layout of rocks and mist. Green eerie looking mist.
The fuck?
I blinked away the haze of just waking up and looked more clearly around me. This, this was not my home. This wasn't campus or anywhere nearby. There was green mist and what looked like ash floating around me. Rocky, darkly colored spires surrounded me, sticking up like something from a cave. Only it couldn't be a cave, there was a foggy sky above me. I got to my feet stomach dropping and looking around unnerved.
This looked like something out of a nightmare. All dark and sharp and threatening.
The light seemed to be coming from the rocky stairs in front of me. They looked like the staircase from Lord of the Rings that Gollum took Sam and Frodo up. Spires flanked it and I followed it up to find a glowing feminine form with a large head at the top. It-she-whatever looked like an alien.
My hand gave a sharp stab making me hiss and close them for a moment. When I opened them it looked like Glowing Alien Lady was looking down at me. Her hands drifted up and gestured for me to come towards her.
Yeah, no. I stepped back instinctively. I needed to do something, go somewhere. Preferably away from the GAL upstairs. I took another step back and her gestures became more frantic. Then I heard the clicking and whispered voices.
I looked behind me stomach dropping even more. There was a lot of blurry shapes moving in my direction. They were lumpy and low to the ground. The mist shifted just long enough to show me a glimpse of mandibles snapping, eight legs, and a large back end.
Oh my God. GAL looked a lot more inviting. I took off at a full on sprint ignoring my headache. I wasn't processing anything beyond the panicked thrum.
My only thought was: giantspidergiantspiderseightleggedfreaksactuallyhappenedGIANTSPIDERS.
The run up the hill was a blur of fear, the burn of over exertion in my limb. The terrifying clicks getting closer. Hysterical sobbing trying to break its way through me.
Near the top it became less stairs and more a ladder as I got closer to the GAL who was offering out her hand reaching for me. I let out a little sob letting out some of my panic come out when I finally got within reach of her. I strained and finally, finally, my hand made contact.
It glowed a quick flashing green as the white glow began to explode off her.
I had one quick thought before the world flared into bright oblivion.
Am I being abducted?
When the light faded I was gasping on my knees, trying to draw in the breath that had left me when the world faded. I was somewhere else without the green glow. I could see the natural light falling on my hands and see the sleeve of an unfamiliar top. I was shaking and felt dizzy my vision already starting to blacken around the corners.
"A survivor!" a voice shouted and I tried to look up but couldn't. Feet were pounding on the hard stone ground I'd landed on. All in my direction and they were accompanied with a sound of shaking metal.
My arms were too weak and gave out making me land with me cheek in the ground for a second time today. I heard voices shouting over me and saw a flash of green light from before out of the corner of my eye. The noise began to fade away as a ringing took over my ears and it all went away again.
AUTHOR NOTE: So I read if you make me fight an actual dragon i swear i'm leaving by Lapsed Pacifist, which is hilarious and 10/10 would read again.
I'm working on finalizing my plot for Rin Redux and making it good. This meanwhile is completely trash and I'm not really pre-planning much for it. I'm just writing it as I play my way through Dragon Age: Inquisition, which is also so far pretty great.
The chapters will come as quickly as I progress in the game and like the character I don't actually know what happens in Inquisition after a point so it's gonna be an adventure. I've got up to the Hinterlands planned but that's about it.
Enjoy! I'll try to make the next chapter longer.