Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Prompt: losing you
Absent Without Leave
"You're leaving?"
Anders watched in growing horror as his only real defense against the Templars stuffed another set of clothing into her bag. Kallian Tabris looked up at him with an apologetic shrug.
"I've got... unfinished business in Antiva City," she explained, one hand drifting up to absently toy with the gold hoop dangling from her left ear. "I left orders for Nathaniel to take over as commander – if Weisshaupt knows what's good for them they won't try to override them."
Anders avoided all comments about his opinion of the intelligence of the head Wardens in favor of a far more pressing concern.
"You're coming back, though. Right?"
Kallian grinned. "Of course I am; you lot would never survive without me. Shouldn't be gone for more than a few weeks, really. Just you wait – I'll be back before you even notice I'm gone."
With that she swung her pack onto her back and gave Anders a little wave as she walked out of the room, out of the Keep, out of the Wardens.
Three months, one Fade spirit, and twelve dead Templars later, Anders stopped waiting.