A/N: This little story was written for a 10 minute Cheeky Monkey challenge. My muse needed a kick in the pants.
It is time.
I can feel the taint roiling and screaming inside me. The whisper of the darkspawn has turned into a deafening roar. I cannot escape it, not even when I'm awake.
What is worse is that I can feel it in him too. It is a mindless fury, a waking nightmare that we cannot escape.
He will fight and die like a Warden. He will go into the Deep Roads and die as a Warden should. He is older now, his hair flecked with gray, but he still has a strength that leaves me in awe.
I will die a different death. There will be no Deep Roads for me. I will not become a mindless beast, spawning the creatures that would see us dead and destroy all we hold dear.
I lie in our bed after a banquet in our honor. He will see me to the Maker before he leaves this night to answer his Calling. He hands me the cup, sitting on the bed beside me, taking my hand in his and lowering his lips to mine for a lingering, bittersweet kiss.
It's a dark wine in my cup, much like that of our Joining but unlike that poison, this one will not fail.
"I will be waiting for you. My heart. My soul. My life. My love."
"You will not wait long. My heart shall always be yours."
I drink and as the darkness comes to meet me, I breathe his name for the last time.
"Loghain."
A/N part two: This story may or may not be "canon" for the Revelations/Rend Asunder/Retribution universe. I've thought off and on about how I want Lhiannon and Loghain's story to end. This may or may not be it. Either way, the ending is still a long way off, so fear not.
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