I woke up drenched in sweat with the blankets thrown on the floor.

"It was just a dream, it was just a dream Sophia!" I said to myself trying to calm down. I dreamt I was in a snowy forest, my family was on the other side of the clearing. I ran towards them, but I couldn't get any closer, and then a bright light flashed and they were lying on the ground, a pool of blood seeping out from under them.

It was horrible, and I needed to shake it from my mind, so I got up and put on some clothes. Deciding not to wake everyone by "gracefully" going down the hallway, I opened the window and (as quietly as possible) climbed out. It was cold, and I kinda wish I had out on warmer clothes, but I would be fine.

I walked through the empty town, it was still dark, and probably really early in the morning, so everything was quiet. It was nice, peaceful, and I desperately needed peaceful after the last couple days. I pushed open the gates and walked out towards the frozen lake. I stopped when I saw Cullen (in full armor [lol, of course!]) looking out over the lake. I slowly approached, and he turned around in surprise when he saw me.

"Lady Lavellen?! What are you doing out here?" He asked, probably shocked to see me up really early.

"I could ask the same of you, Commander," I said.

"I needed to clear my head," he said. Reaching back and putting a hand on the back of his neck.

"Same, it's been a stressful couple of days and I couldn't sleep," I said, looking towards the breach. Just looking at the breach made me nervous, I had to close it. Me! I couldn't get my mom to let me go to a concert, let alone save a world!

Cullen must have seen the worried look in my face, because he tried (and failed) to give me a comforting smile.

I stared out over the lake, the sky a light greenish purple near one of the mountains to the north. It was beautiful, the pre-dawn sky, the sun here rose in the north and set in south according to the compass I borrowed from Varric.

After 30 more seconds or so of akwardly standing I left and walked around the pond for a while. I found my self walking into the small wooded area near the town. I decided to turn back after going about five steps in, if I had my staf or my armor I might go in, but I'm not going to risk being eaten by demons.

By the time I was done with my walk it was dawn and the troops were already out and training. I could hear Cullen yelling at recruit to correct their stance and smiled to myself. When I got up to the Chantry Cassandra was outside, talking to the quartermaster. When she saw me, she said something to Threnn, and then approached me. She motioned for me to follow her, and we walked into the Chantry. My mark stung for a second and I lifted my hand to examine it.

"Does it trouble you?" Cassandra asked.

"I just wish I remember what happened," I replied.

"A question we will answer once the breach is sealed," she said, and opened the door into the war room.

I must not have noticed Cullen pass me on my way to the Chnatry, because he was already in the war room with Leliana and who I assume is another major character I've forgotten (urgh!).

"You've already met our commander," Cassandra said, motioning to Cullen. He nodded a hello and I smiled in return. Cassandra continued, "And this is our Ambassador and Chief diplomat; Lady Josephine Montilyet."

"Andaran atish an," she said. The weird thing was, I understood what it meant: I welcome you in peace. Wtf is going on with my memories!

"You speak elven?" I asked.

"You have heard the entirety of it, I'm afraid," she replied.

"And you remember Leliana," Cassandra motioned to her.

"My position here involves a degree of-" she said before Cassandra cut her off.

"She is our spy master."

"Tactfully put, Cassandra,"

"It's a pleasure to meet you all," I said.

"Solas belives that is the mark is given anough power, we can seal the breach," Cassandra said, jumping right into buisness.

"Which means we must approach the rebel mages for help," Leliana advised.

"I still disagree, the templars could serve just as well," Cullen said.

"We need power Commander. Enough magic poured into the mark-" Cassandra began.

"Could destroy us all! The templars could suppress the breach, weaken it so-," Cullen said before Leliana interupted.

"Pure speculation," Leliana said.

"I was a templar, I know what they can do," he said, defending his point again.

"Unfortunately we don't have enough influence to approach either side," Josephine said. "The Chantry has denounced us," she turned to me, "and you specifically."

"They still think I'm guilty?" I asked.

"That is not the entirety of it anymore. Some are calling you, a dalish elf, the Herald of Andraste, that frightens the Clerics,"

"So if I wasn't here?" I suggested.

"No. Not an option, we need you to close the breach," Cassandra said. "And even if you weren't, they would still denounce us."

"There is something we can do, a Chantry sister by the name of Mother Giselle has asked to speak with you, she is currently in the hinterland, tending to the wounded refugees there, I can send agents to scout the Hinterlands, set up camps and protect Mother Giselle and the refugees," Leliana suggested.

"Sounds like our best option," I said, everyone nodded their heads in aprroval.

"Try to find other ways to expand the Inquisiton's influence while you're there," Cullen said.

"We need to agents in more places, and you are better suited than anyone recruit them," Josephine added.

"I will send word as soon as you are able to leave, and will ask Varric and Solas if they would be willing to go with," Leliana said. At the sound of Varric's name, Cassandra did her infamous [disqusted noise] and I did all I could to stop myself from giggling.

With that we left the war room. I went back to my room to put my armor back on (you never know when you could be attacked by a demon [haven is right next to a giant demon spawning rift!]) When all my armor was on, and my staff was strapped to my back I walked back down to where the troops were training and approached Cullen.

"Recruit! Theres a shield in your hand! Block with it!" He barked at a recruit who kept getting hit with the practice sword. "Lieutenant, theses recruits need to be trained for a real fight, not a practice one, do not go easy on them!"

He turned to me. "We've recieved a number of recruits, some locals from Haven and some pilgrims. None made quite the entrance you did."

"Well, at least I got peoples attention," I joked.

"That you did. I was recruited into the Inquisition in Kirkwall myself. I was there during the mage uprising, I saw first hand the devastation it caused," he paused to sign some documents. "Cassandra sought a solution, when she offered me a position I left the templars to join her cause. Now it seems we face something far worse."

"Hopefully the anchor will work this time," I said.

"Provided we can secure aid, but I'm confident we can. The Chantry lost control over both the mages and templars, and now they argue over a new Divine while the Breach waits. The Inquisiton can act when the Chantry cannot. Our followers will be a part of that. There is so much we can-" he shook his head, "forgive me, I doubt you came here for a lecture."

I smiled. "I didn't, but If you have one prepared I won't say no."

"Another time perhaps," he said, looking away, "there's still a lot of work ahead."

"Commander, Sir Ryan has a report on the supply lines," a messanger said, handing Cullen a stack of papers.

"As I was saying," he said, and walked away to read the report.

As I was walking away, a thought entered my head: tell Solas what really happened. I didn't quite realize why the thought entered my mind, or why it was a good idea, but I ended up walking over to where Solas was anyways.

"So, the Herald of Andraste, a blessed hero sent to save us all," he said as I approached.

"Am I riding in on a shining steed?" I joked.

"I would have suggested a griffin, but sadly, they are extinct," he replied. "Joke as you will, posturing is necessary," he walked I've journeyed deep into the fade in ancient ruins and battle fields to see the dreams of lost civilizations. I've watched spirts act as hosts to reenact the bloody past in wars both famous and forgotten. Every great war has its heros. I'm just curious to see what kind you'll be."

"What do you mean ruins and battle fields?" Solas went on to talk about the fade and memories and stuff. Afterwards I began to tell him about how I thedas.

"So, these... games are what? Prophecy?" He asked, after I had explained th whole" I come from a world where your life is part of a game/story.

"Maybe? Probably? I don't really know,"

"What was the other one you mentioned, the third?"

"Dragon Age... Inquisition..."

"Inquistion? Our Inquisiton?"

"Yes... and I have played it several times, and use to know what happend in it..."

"Use to?"

"I forgot soon after I got here,"

"How did you get here?"

"Thats the thing, I don't know, and I was kinda hoping... you could help me get back home..." I asked.

"I might be able to, if I could figure out why you have taken on the form of a dalish elf, and how and why you got here" he answered. "But I do hope you will stay around long enough to close the breach."

"Well, yeah, I may be an awkward teenage girl who can't do shit, but I'm not an asswhole!" I laughed.

"I am glad you are staying lethalan," he said.

"You know, I do know a little about the elven gods, and I was wondering, could you teach me more, help me pass the time?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Of course, I would gladly share my knoledge with you," he said, smiling.

After a while of talking, I went to the tavern to find some food. The bartender was an elven woman named Flissa who was so kind and polite (because I'm the Herald) that I had to force her to take my money. She charged to litte, and made sure that my food was extra good and exactly how I wanted it, so on the way out I gave her a pretty big tip (still had to insist she take it!) And walked over to Varric to see if he had any copies of the Tale of the Champion I could borrow. He gave me one to read, and I went back to my room.

It was a good book, and Varric was a good writer. Hawke was a rouge named Katelin who appearantly has a soft spot for adorable blood mages. She helped the mages, and basically chose none of the bad choices and was generally a pretty good person. I couldn't sleep again so I read the book all night and finished it by what I guessed was around 2am.

"Varric, do you have any copies if Hard in Hightown I could borrow?" I asked Varric the next morning.

"Didn't I give you a book last night?" He asked.

"Yeah, and I read it, it was really good,"

"Thanks, but you do realize that sleep deprivation isn't a good thing right?"

"I haven't been sleeping well recently, and reading is a good distraction for recent events,"

"All right, but you better get some sleep soon, because a couple of Leliana's scouts have returned from the Hinterlands,"

"Good, waiting around is really boring,"

"At least try to get some sleep before we set out to save the world jumpey," He warned.

"Hmm... jumpy not sure it's quite as descriptive as broody," We laughed at that, and he gave me the book and told me that there were more in the Inquisiton's library. I thanked him and went on my way, heading towards the clearing in the woods that Solas had been teaching me magic in.

Leveling up in video games is complete shit. In the beginning of DAI, your party members only have like, two abilitys, Solas has cool fade powers, Cassandra is a very well trained warrior, Varric is great at setting traps, and magic doesn't require you to kill 20 lessor terrors to learn new abilitys.

I now knew how to heal, cast fire, lightning, and some spirit spells, and I also made a spell that makes me invisable, like the weird powder stuff rouges use to turn invisable but with magic. It made it so people can't see me (its really great for sneaking up on Cullen and Joshephine).

"I see you are ready to begin," Solas said, stepping into the clearing.

"I am, and just to let you know, I've been working on that spell, and I think I figured it out, I " I said. Solas was about to start to teach me more about how to control my abilitys, when one of Leliana's agents came running through the trees.

"Herald! Leliana told me to find you, she said it was important!" She said, panting from running all over Haven to find me.

"Solas, I have to-"

"It is alright, lethalan, we will continue this later,"

The agent ran off and I went to talk to Leliana.

"You wanted to see me?" I said as I approached Leliana's little tent thingy.

"Yes, my agents have returned from the Hinterlands, and it is... not good," she said.

"What do you mean by not good?" I asked, worried something had happened to Mother Giselle .

"The war between mages and templars has spread to the crossroads, where Mother Giselle was last seen. Our agents have been protecting her as best as possible, but can only hold out for a little while longer, we have arranged for you to leave for the Hinterlands tomorrow at dawn," she explained. I nodded in agreement.

I walked back down to the clearing to find that no one was there. "Solas?!" I called. I was about to turn around and head back when a gloved hand wrapped around my mouth and pulled me into the trees.

So I changed more of this chapter (some of the same mistakes I made in the first chapter had to be fixed along with other stuff) so enjoy and I am sorry about the delay between chapters, but there is a lot going on right now in my life.