Chapter 4
It had been about 5 months since I had come to Skyhold. I was beginning to get used to it here, though it was hard. There was no technology, and I had left my phone at home. The one day I do that, and this is what I get? Sucked into another world? It was like being thrown into the dark ages. The Inquisitor Rae had gone looking for ways to find out what had happened to me, but she was unable to find answers, and she didn't know how to get me back home. Cole and I practiced often, though, and it was actually really fun to learn the ways of a rouge. I asked him a lot of questions about Fereldan and Thedas, and he always had answers for me. Soon every time I went to see him, I was excited. This excitement soon turned into butterflies in my stomach and I wasn't sure why. However, that was short lived when one day I went past a woman who I had learned was named Vivienne. She scared me, honestly, from what I had heard she was like the queen of ice and you didn't want to piss her off. She approached me, seemingly holding urgent information.
"I hear that you're practicing with the Inquisitor's little demon every day. Are you sure you want a monster like that to teach you anything?" She smirked at me. This threw me off. What did she mean by 'Inquisitor's little demon?' I guess the bewilderment showed easily on my face, because she soon took this to her advantage.
"Oh, you haven't heard? That "Cole" is really a demon. Ask him yourself." She was smirking more now, and for some reason I thought that that was scary. So I ran off, headed straight for Cole. She couldn't be serious. He had saved me from a demon, how could he possibly be one too? I rushed to Cole, and as soon as I stepped in the room he began to frown, noticing my demeanor.
"Vivienne told me you're a demon!" I snapped. "How could you have not told me?! She said you're a monster!"
"I am not sure what I am, but I am only trying to help. I understand if you do not want my help anymore. " He says earnestly. The way he looks at me though, I wonder if he feels the butterflies in his stomach that I feel too, but if he isn't really human, then can he even feel what I feel?
"I can, and I do." Cole admits, "I feel something for you more than I usually do, and I was hoping that you could help me understand it. I've never felt this way." This really caught me off guard.
"Wait, can you read my mind? I didn't say that out loud did I?" My face was beginning to feel heated, and I didn't know what to make of all this. Here, I came in expecting him to get upset or something, maybe throw me out, but he didn't. Not to mention the fact that he felt something for me.
"Yes, I can, but only when something's bothering you, which seems to be often." He explains. I was still a little wary, but honestly, if he wanted to hurt me, he would have done it a long time ago. It had been 5 months. I relaxed. Vivienne was trying to throw me off and hate him, but I wouldn't have it, especially now that he had told me he had feelings for me.
"What do you mean, you don't understand how you feel about me?" I asked instead. I know this was
going to get complicated really fast, but I needed to know what he meant.