Mina listened to the Templars trudge through the muck and grass, twitching at every sound and touching sword hilts at every bird's cry.
Today she was the sparrow on the wing, flying high above them. Her wings felt free and light and she sometimes forgot about them and soared into the sky and sun. The sun was warm and bright and it was a welcome difference from the black of night.
As a bird, and as wolf, she could see shapes and colors. In human form she could see nothing but forms and outlines. The world was mostly grey with people that moved like shadow puppets. The world was beautiful, however, lit up in her eyes by smell and sound. And the Templars came to take it from her.
She knew of Templars from both Morrigan and Flemeth, and some from her mother. But she remembered little of her mother, gone to the darkspawn before she was five. Morrigan and Flemeth looked out for her, though she was left alone for weeks and sometimes months. They told her of the Templars and she watched many die to their hands. And then Morrigan left and Flemeth disappeared and she didn't have to please Morrigan or Flemeth or anyone anymore.
So the Templars came and she trapped them in webs and whispered to them while they slept. She sang out at their campfires and poisoned their cups with sleeping potions. And sooner or later they left, injured or terrified, or both and she waited for the next camp of them.
But this one didn't wear them's armor. This one didn't smell like them. This one smelt like the water at the base of the mountain, and the sparks that sometimes zapped from her fingers, and oh how she wanted to smell him again and again. And taste him as last night, for he tasted of salt and something else she'd never tasted before, which was sweet and heavenly and now she wondered if they all tasted like that and did they all not allow touching. And it didn't matter so much that they were them and she was she, because she really wanted that feeling that started in the pit of her tummy last night. With that decided she glided to the branch above them jumped down behind the last one in the line.