Checking out videos of Dragon Age: Awakening online, and this quest always gets me. And it got me to wondering: What if the Commander tried to find Bonnie after finding the 'surprise' her lover left for her? How would she feel? Not a very good drabble, but I felt like that quest needed a better ending.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Age. Bioware's got that one.
Dragon Age: Trail Of Tears
"Excuse me, miss?"
The woman turned around to see a figure in gleaming plate-mail armor waiting at her stall in the Amaranthine market. For a moment she could only stutter, as the gold double griffin insignia of the Commander of the Grey flashed in the afternoon sun.
"C-commander?" she finally stammered. The armored figure nodded and removed her helm to reveal dark hair held in a braided coil at the base of her neck and piercing green eyes.
"I was wondering if you could help me." The Warden-Commander's voice was quiet and reassuring, but there were hints of force in the tone: it was the voice of command, of a woman who was used to being obeyed.
"A-anythin', Commander!" The Warden-Commander smiled sadly and removed a letter from her gauntlet.
"When I was in the Blackmarsh I found this letter, from a woman named Bonnie. Do you know where I could find her?"
The woman's eyes widened when she saw the letter she'd left Corin with so long ago. Even now, she remembered reading those ridiculous words he'd left her, how angry she'd been as he'd once again treated her as a joke. The note was tattered and stained, like it had been left at the mercy of the marshes ever since…
"I'm Bonnie, ma'am. But how did you get this letter? Why was it in the Blackmarsh? Oh no," she gasped as she realized why the note would be in the marshes in the first place. "Corin, is he…is he dead?"
"He took poison, after he got your letter," the Warden answered sadly. "We found the clues he left behind, and the surprise he wanted you to have." Kneeling, she removed a small package from her pack and handed it to Bonnie. "He loved you very much. It seemed only right that I return this to you."
Saluting, the Commander turned and made her way back to her companions; Bonnie recognized the drunken dwarf and the rogue, but not the Dalish mage. She turned her eyes down to the package in her hands, carefully wrapped, but badly stained. Her hands trembled as she revealed a silver ring, simple in appearance, but beautiful all the same. The crackling sound of parchment hit her ears, and she found a small sheet of paper in the wrapping.
"Oh no…." Tears streamed down her face as the parchment fluttered to the pavestones at her feet.
"Bonnie, you are my sun, my moon, my everything. Will you marry me?"