When one of his men ran up to him in a panic, he had assumed the worse. The War-Cerain had fallen and he was going to have to hope that another Grey Warden will share. The soldier was panting and said Cerain was running after the darkspawn in the swamp. When he asked why the soldier hadn't stopped her, he had said in a small voice that she scared him and judging from her actions, she wasn't in her right mind anymore.

"She didn't respond to any of us and when we tried to step in front of her, she pushed us out of the way and healed us. I don't think she is aware of her surroundings anymore." Loghain grumbled and ran after her. It wasn't hard to tell were she had been, she left an impressive trail of destruction, that and vials. He could see why his men didn't want to mess with her after passing what looked like the fifteenth pile of semi exploded bodies. When he caught up to her, she was halfway through the swamps. He had tried to call out to her, but apparently she hadn't heard him, because she kept going.

When he grabbed her and turned her to face him, she looked horrible. Her eyes where dilated and her face was the same shade of red as her hair. The confused look on her face troubled him greatly.

"Why did you leave my men? What is wrong with you?" Nothing, it was like he had said nothing at all. He shook her and demanded to know what was wrong. She giggled and made a face that he learned to dread as a father and tried to get out of the way. He hadn't moved fast enough and ended up with bright purple goo all over his lower half. Then she she smiled and passed out.

He scooped her up in his arms and sighed. " You better tell me everything when you get up." No response. He started to walk back to Ostagar and found himself walking at a leisurely slow pace to not wake her. He had just arrived at Ostagar when she started to stir. She wasn't fully awake and was looking at him through half opened eyes.

"Who...what...put me down desire demon! I'm onto you! With your cold armor of coldness and your good looks. You work with mouse don't you!" She was slurring badly and not making sense. Then she pressed her face against his chest and murmured that she knew what he was, but was letting him live because his armor was cold and felt good on her face. She had grabbed a braid on the side of his face and was rubbing it when he felt a sharp pain and jerked his hair out of her grasp. She had frozen his braid. She muttered something about him being warm too and wanting to help before slipping back into the fade.

He had walked into the healers tent and when one of the mages tried to take her, she clung to his armor.

"Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! That is my desire demon made of delicious coldness, get your own!" This got a shocked response from the lead healer, an older mage named Wynne. She shot him a knowing look and he shrugged his shoulders. When he walked out, a mage offered to rinse him clean and had sprayed off the darkspawn guts and mage vomit. He wandered around, ordering his troops and found Bryce with his family at the Tower of Ishal. Bryce looked exhausted, Lilly and Eleanor were fast asleep propped up against a support colum.

"They wouldn't leave me. I told them to go back to the tent and they told me they won't go until I go. I must know, is it true what there are saying about Cailan?"

"It is, we didn't get there in time. The fool had already met his end by an ogre by the time we got there." He rubbed he forehead.

" How are we going to fix this Bryce. The bastard had no children."

"I don't know...I..we can work on this tomorrow after we rest and recuperate. I still need to find my son and let him know his is a widower and his son is dead.I am not looking forward to that."

"Go and take your family back to your tent, I'll sweep for survivors."

"Are you sure? I'm not as old as I look Loghain, I can do this."Loghain raised his hand to stop him and pointed out the fact that he was starting to resemble a raccoon. Bryce chuckled and said he did too. They both started to laugh at the absurdity of the situation and Lilly woke up.

"Father, are you done?"

" Yes Pup, Loghain has offered to finish for me." Lilly stretched and woke Eleanor up. Bryce thanked him and left.

He looked around and grabbed the nearest soldier.

" You, how far along are we?"

" We still have to sweep the galley Ser." He sighed, this was going to be a long night.

" Then gather all the men and get to it!"