9:30 Harvestmere 1st Continued
We were still in the mage quarters. This would have been where Talen would have moved to after his Harrowing. Most of the furniture was burned during his fireball, the crackling of the fire was the only thing I heard. The room was in disarray along with the fire. Furniture was overturned, various miscellaneous items on the floor. I can't tell you how many times I tripped over furniture.
"There is something here." Sten said. The infamous closet and the cowardly mage.
"Hey! You can come out now." Talen said, clearing his throat from his sobbing earlier.
"A-Are you s-sure?"
"Just get out or I'll blast that closet into pieces."
"Oh! Wait! Don't hurt me!" A young man came out, groaning about how his butt hurt.
"Talen? What are you doing back into the tower and wha- Oh holy Maker, look at them all. You really showed those demons their due."
"What were you doing in there Godwin?"
"Well I was minding my own business in the tower, when all of a sudden demons started to pour out from the meeting room upstairs. So I decided the best thing to do in that situation is to hide, and be really, really quiet." Talen face palmed.
"We've cleared a path down to the first floor if you want to go with the other apprentices." Wynne said.
"Oh no, I think I'll just stay in my closet for now until everything blows over. Thank you again for all your help." Talen nodded toward him and we continued on our way through the second floor.
We found three more blood mages arguing about getting money. They heard us coming and one managed to ensnare Eren. Morrigan paralyze him while Alistair, Derek, and Sten went to battle the mages. Alistair put his Templar abilities to good use and stopped their magic. Robes weren't a really good defense against a greatsword and battle hammer. Then an abomination came out to try to kill Talen. It got burned down for its trouble but Talen was in the way of the explosion and got his face singed a bit. Wynne healed after the battle was won and Eren came to and apologized.
"We need to take caution. The saarebas will seize our minds and have us fight against each other." Sten said.
"We need the litany. That's the only thing that can go against mind control." Wynne said.
"My blade will cut down anyone who loses control."
"You hear that? Try not to get mind controlled." Alistair said. We left the room and went into the stockroom. The place was a mess with two abominations and a rage demon. Morrigan did a cold spell to freeze the rage demon while Derek and Sten went toe to toe with the other two. Alfred and I went behind the enemies and I shattered the rage demon. Alfred launched himself at the abomination. One died before the other and I called Alfred just in time to avoid the blast. The other was flown across the room by Derek. Talen looked around to see if there some supplies. He even tried to open the door to the caverns where all the supplies were but they were locked.
"Tch, there's nothing here, let's keep going."
"It's going to take a long time if we keep searching room to room." Derek said.
"Well we're going to do it just in case we find anyone else." Talen said.
We got out of the stockroom and found the Chantry. Talen saw some of the bodies of the Templars and stopped. His eyes lingered where Jowan and Lily asked him for his help to free Jowan. Talen gave out a long sigh.
"Check around to see if we can find something in here." Talen said. Eren and I just looked at each other and shrugged. There was only books scattered about the room, pews overthrown, the statue of Andraste on the floor.
"Hm? Talen there's a bottle on the ground near the statue of Andraste." Alistair said. Talen came over and inspected it.
"Weird, it's black. Let's see..." Talen said, grabbing the vial but it broke. The room suddenly grew extremely cold. I breathed out and I was able to see my breath.
"Oh that's not good." I said. Electricity crackled from the vial and out came a cold orb of energy. Once the energy dissipated, there was a Revenant standing right in front of us.
"Oh sod. Revenant!" Talen said as the Revenant pulled him toward it. We all got out our weapons and Morrigan tried to hit it with a freezing spell, but the Revenant just shook it off. It was about to stab downward on Talen when Alistair, who was closest, dragged him away. The Revenant did a telekinetic pull and dragged Derek over instead. Derek was on the ground as the Revenant slashed downward, but its sword got caught with Sten's sword. Morrigan kept on trying to hit it with freezing spell, but with no change. Alfred went over and tried to bite at the Revenant but it soon threw Sten off and punched Alfred in his muzzle. Eren got mad at that and charged him with his shield. He was able to move the Revenant a few inches on the ground. Alistair came by to help but they were both pushed out of the way by the Revenant. I tried to get closer, only to feel fear. I was paralyzed with fear as I felt like a mouse going against a tiger. I started to shake uncontrollably. The Revenant was throwing all our warriors away from us when it noticed me right behind it.
"Nia!" Eren shouted but I couldn't move. The Revenant with its plate armor and wide sword was coming toward me. It raised it's sword above me and I fell on my knees from the fear. Then I saw an arrow poking out of it's arm. Leliana got it again in the back of the neck. Eren charged again with his shield and got the Revenant's attention away from me. Talen got up and started to summon another fireball.
"Out of the way!" Talen shouted. Alistair and Eren got out of the way as the fireball got to the Revenant, but it only pushed him farther away. Sten and Derek went toward it, hitting it with their double handed weapons while it was distracted. Leliana found her way towards me and pulled me out of the fight. I couldn't stand up to it at all. Alfred was in front of Morrigan and Wynne. Wynne was making sure that everyone wasn't crumbling away from the powerful swings of the Revenant. Derek, Sten, Eren, and Alistair were all ganging up on him. Talen went over to our side and helped with healing alongside Wynne. Morrigan's spells weren't working since she was more entropy and cold spells which didn't work on the Revenant.
The Revenant did another powerful swing and everyone was on the ground. Leliana took this chance and started to hit it with numerous arrows but, even though the arrows pierced it's neck, it didn't do nothing but focus on us. The Revenant took one look at me on the floor and did it's pull again. I was pulled right underneath it again, but this time I had enough. I pushed away the fear and grabbed my daggers. I dodged it's downward stab and started to pummel against it's armor. That's all I did until the armor dented enough where there was an opening. It flinged me across the room into the mages. Alistair then got up and plunged his sword right where I made the opening. His sword went right through the Revenant. Alistair pulled out his sword and clocked the Revenant on it's face and slashed at it's neck. The Revenant did it's dramatic fall and laid dead on the floor. I let out a breath I didn't know I had, my heart beating like crazy in my chest, as I got up from the others I crashed into.
"You just had to touch the black vial." I said.
"I thought it was a potion! How was I supposed to know it was a Revenant?" Talen shouted.
"To think we had something that dangerous, and in the Chantry no less." Wynne said.
"Someone had an ironic sense of humor." Eren said. "Are you ok?" Eren said, coming toward me.
"Yeah, just, I'm sorry that I froze. I don't know why."
"Revenants can give out a fearsome aura that affects those with weak minds." Morrigan said, glancing toward me. I rubbed my face sheepishly.
"Well that explains a few things." Eren said and I shoved him.
"We should keep going and no more touching those black vials." Derek said.
I finally got everything written down. Irving's study was like a resting period for us. Wynne and Talen were looking around to see if there was something of use down here. Talen got the black grimoire and sneaked it into his pack.
"Hopefully we can get out of here soon. This tower is too cold." Derek said, rubbing his hands.
"We're not going to find anything valuable here. Let's get going." Talen said.
-/-
The higher we got, the colder it cold. Stone does not retain heat. The mess hall was almost destroyed. Everything was overturned with various corpses on the ground. As we entered, the corpses came to life. We were all scattered and they took that to their advantage, coming closer to our mage group more than anyone else. One singled me out and I had a close brush when it tripped me. As soon as I went down, it launched itself at me. It's teeth tried to bite at anything that was exposed. Did I already thank Eren on giving me the medium armor? I'd like to say thank you again. I kept it at bay, grabbing at it's head, but it's supernatural strength was gaining on me. Then Alfred came and tackled it, severing its head from the body. There really was only one way to kill these and that's through decapitation. We go through the fade through our dreams so the demons possess us through our minds. If we take off the head, there was no link anymore.
While we were busy with the corpses, an arcane horror came upon us from the other room. I sprinted toward it, keeping myself low. I launched myself at it and stabbed my daggers deep into it, dragging it to the ground. I began wailing on it, getting the attention of a rage demon that was right behind it.
I couldn't jump away fast enough when the rage demon seared me with its flames. Wynne's timely healing made sure that there was no permanent damage. Morrigan and Derek, done killing the corpses, came to my aid. A quick ice spell and Derek's hammer tore it apart. Then a legion of hunger demons came from the next room. They were alerted from the fighting with the rage demon I kept myself low, trying to stab at the legs or trip them. One grabbed me from behind and threw me into Eren and Sten. I felt my spine crack in the wrong way. My lower back felt extremely stiff. Derek got his leg stuck in the trap leading to the next room, Sten maneuvered his way around him, with Alistair and Eren right behind him. After they took down all the hunger demons we all took a well deserved break. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep going until my lower back cracked again.
"Sten, can you help me?"
"What do you need?"
"I need you to lift and squeeze me." I gave him the run down. I was going to cross my shoulders while he grabbed me from the front and squeezed until he heard a crack. Sten agreed. I crossed my arms and he did it. I felt something shift back.
"Oh! Ah much better. Thank you Sten. Remind me to bake you some cookies one day."
"That would be appreciated." Talen was being silent again as we found all the bodies piled on top of each other in a corner of the room. There was nothing I could do for him. Wynne came toward him and put a hand on Talen's shoulder, but he pushed her away.
"This must stop..." Wynne said softly.
"Let's keep going." Talen said. We saw another hallway full of closed doors. We opened the first one and possessed Templars started to come toward us. There were only two but with that plate armor, it was extremely hard to get to them.
"Try to keep them alive!" Wynne shouted.
"That's going to be really hard!" Derek shouted, fighting against one. I tried going to help but Derek pushed a Templar right toward me and he rammed me. Not having a helmet on, it hit me dead on. I saw stars for a second before, Derek used a swing against the Templar's head and he went down. Talen went to the Templars and checked their pulse. Both were still alive.
"Wynne how are you feeling?" Talen asked.
"I am a bit weary but fine."
"Then I won't ask you to heal them." Talen said, green energy coming from his hands into the Templars.
"If they wake up again I won't hesitate to kill them." Derek said.
"Don't worry they won't. Morrigan, put them to sleep. Make sure they stay asleep." Talen said.
"Fine." Morrigan said. A yellowish energy came from her hands that went toward the two Templars. "There. Let us continue."
"Are you going to do this with every Templar?" Eren asked.
"If I have to. I don't want anyone else to die...even if they are Templars." Talen said.
"I'm glad you think that way." Alistair said. Alfred barked in agreement.
"Come on let's go see who or what was controlling these Templars." Talen said. We went into the next room but we didn't find anything besides a few torn down cabinets.
"There isn't anything here." Eren said. Talen motioned us to go to the next room. That's when we hit a big bump when five Templars, FIVE, came toward us to kill us with a Desire demon right behind him.
"Jesus Christ!" I shouted as the Templars came as one moving force to try to kill us all. I heard the Desire demon shout at all of them to listen to her.
"Kill the demon! It's the reason why they're like this!" Talen shouted, trying to make sure he wasn't going to be impaled by one of the Templars. Leliana and Alfred made sure that the Templars didn't get close the Morrigan, Wynne, and Talen. Derek, Alistair, Sten, and Eren had their work cut out for them, trying to fight without killing them. I made my body small and went inside the room. The Desire demon was right in front of me. The demon had scaly skin instead of it being smooth. It's hands and feet becoming more armor like than skin with claws that were extremely long. Sure it had boobs and an almost viewable lower part, but there was nothing desirable about this demon. It was floating from the ground so I did my previous tactic and tried launching myself toward it. It did a cone of cold which I barely avoided. I ran circles around it, a pair of armored feet coming toward me. I knew that a Templar came away from the rest of the group to protect it. I rolled underneath it and stabbed at a calf. The demon gave a shout of pain as the Templar came running toward me. I did a last minute run right behind the Desire demon and the Templar tackled the demon instead of me.
The Templar got up from the demon and it started to float again but I took the initiative and finally launched myself right at it. Both of my daggers did massive damage as they sunk in the chest of the demon. The Templar started to fumble as it's control started to wane. The demon floated around, trying to get at me with it's claws. I took out one dagger and stabbed upward from it's chin. It went through it's head and I went tumbling down. All the Templars that were still fighting started to walk around as if they were drunk.
"Now Morrigan!" Talen shouted. Morrigan did an area wide sleeping spell and put them all on the ground. Talen went to each and every single one while I got out my daggers from the demon. Strangely enough, they came out clean with no blood. Unfortunately with all of them fighting us, Derek and Sten weren't able to hold back their blows. One of them died.
"If demons are able to pass through with their bodies, there must be a rift in the fade." Wynne said.
"Someone is behind this. If Uldred can bring out Desire demons, then more demons can also be here, not just Desire demons." Talen said.
"Don't tell me that we're going to fight Pride demons are we?" Alistair said.
"Heh! If we are it would make one sodding story." Derek said.
"Let's keep moving." Eren said. We came at the end of the main hall and we only found more furniture that was ruined.
"Sod out of luck. We might as well open the door leading to the middle." Derek said. We went down the hall again and found the last door. Alistair put his hand on the handle and Talen nodded. As soon as he opened it we saw the hunger abomination alongside some corpses trying to turn tranquil into more abominations. I evaded the corpses and, with Alfred, tackled the abomination that was focusing on the Tranquil. As soon as we hit the ground, I started to wreck it with my knuckles. It started to ooze this grey liquid but Alfred didn't care as it started to maul the abomination into pieces. I took a look toward the Tranquil and the glowing circles underneath them started to fade. The demon took that to his advantage and threw me off. It didn't matter since Derek took his hammer and squished the demon's ribcage. It let out a death gurgle and the Tranquil were saved.
"All of you, go down to the first level. We're cleared it of demons." Talen said.
"Of course. Thank you for saving us. That was an experience that was horrible." The Tranquil said in their monotone voice. They all started to walk away and we noticed the fleshy parts of the wall. It squirmed underneath us that was wrong on so many levels.
"Are the walls moving?" Alistair asked.
"Tis best not to think about it." We took another breather before going up the stairs. The walls are disgusting.
-/-
Talen is trying to save the possessed Templar that wanted to have a family. It gives me time to write some more.
We went up the stairs to find the small portion of the room with several burned bodies. It was a while ago that they were burned. Talen's fist clenched when he saw all of them.
"That is alarming." Sten said.
"Let's keep going Talen." Leliana said, putting her hand on his shoulder. Talen nodded. We found the possessed Templar who just wanted to have a family. Talen couldn't control himself any longer and lashed out. The Desire demon sent her Templar toward us. Talen used his small frame to by pass him and shot out a cone of flame at the Desire demon. It's skin started to bubble as the Demon floated away. Eren charged at the Templar to keep him off Talen. Talen growled as he chased the Demon. Alfred tried knocked it down, but it froze Alfred. Sten went ahead and started to swipe at it, but it's floating was causing us problems. We needed to ground it.
"Morrigan, freeze it!" I said. She timed it right and got the demon. Talen growled as he started to charge his fireball skill.
"Talen watch out!" Alistair shouted as the Templar escaped from them and jumped in front of the Desire demon but it was too late. Talen unleashed his fury. The Demon melted but the Templar started to cook in his own armor. Talen looked with horror as the Templar, that was finally out of the mind control, screamed in utter agony. Talen gasped as he tried to conjure up an ice spell. It was weak but it was enough to get rid of the flames. The Templar fell to the floor, the smell of charred flesh filling up the room. Talen tried to put in healing energy after healing energy. I looked at him with sympathy.
"Sod it all!" Talen shouted as he hit the ground. The Templar was gone. Talen put a hand to his mouth, the tears coming down again. Wynne came to him and put a hand to his back.
"We must go on Talen."
"I won't forgive them. I won't forgive whoever did this. They're going to die." Talen harshly whispered. "Let's go!" He was going to the room in the middle. I knew what was lurking beyond that. I did a quick prayer. I hope I'm able to fight it. God give me strength.
-/-
I was watching The Lorax for the umpteenth time that day. I was relaxing on the bed out in the living room. It was my weekend finally! Yes! I was tossing and turning all night for some odd reason. I felt so tired. I needed to sleep again. My son and daughter were watching the movie intently. She was swaying side to side. She could never sit still.
Still the movie was ok. What time was it? I felt a bit hungry.
I caught a whiff of someone that just did potty. Oh smelly time. I go to the box that had the diapers and got one in my hand. Of course Ace would just scatter about, trying to make me catch him. I grabbed him by the collar and put him on the bed. He gurgled and giggled at the same time. He was starting to look like his dad.
I look at the clock but the time was blurred. Huh, maybe I didn't have my contacts on.
I got the wipeys and I cleaned his rump. Yeah, fresh diaper. He goes over and does his craziness as usual. I just shake my head and sit down to get my laptop. Huh, I still got a little pudge. That's weird, wasn't it flatter?
I got distracted by watching my daughter do a military crawl on the ground. There she goes again. She was getting stronger everyday. Still it was so funny that she crawls more with her arms than with her legs. Ace was giving me those hungry sounds. Almost 2 years old and he still wasn't speaking that much. Hmm, shouldn't he be older now?
I got up and went to go peel him a banana and I look at the clock again. Blurred out. Why did I keep looking at the time? I remember that there was something I had to do. Something important. I hear the front door open and in walks my husband.
"Baby." I said and gave him a quick smooch.
"How are you doing? How were the babies?" He said, setting down his lunch bag.
"Pretty good. They were well behaved all day. Aren't you supposed to be at work?" I said. I looked at the clock again. I started to feel anxious. Time, what was the time?
"Got off early. Hey you wanna call your mom? See if she can take care of the juicies so we can go out?"
"...My mom? But she lives so far away...and I think..." There was something I had to do. There was something important I had to do. I couldn't stay here but why? That's when I heard that small voice that always told me about trouble.
Come.
Ah, it happened. This is a dream. This wasn't my house. This wasn't my husband and those weren't my babies but it felt so right. I have waited for three years waiting for this but it still wasn't time. I go over to my babies and gave them both a kiss. I went to my husband and hugged him. He hugged me back and I swore I smelled him.
"I have to go babe." I go over to the front door. I didn't have my pajama pants on anymore. Instead I was wearing my armor. My body changed to what I knew I had and my daggers were on my belt. He gave me a questioning look. I didn't want to go. I wanted to stay but I knew that this was a dream.
"Oh ok. Don't be long ok? I love you."
"...I love you too." I go out the front door and as soon as I do, I'm met with Halo. It seemed relieved to see me. It kept going around in circles, checking me. It wanted to know if I'm hurt.
"I'm fine, don't worry." I said as I held my hands out and it snuggled right in the middle. I wanted to look back but there was really no point to it. So the usual path wasn't laid out before me. No it was the street, my home neighborhood. I saw my van and my husband's truck. I didn't know where to go from here, but I couldn't stay here. I followed the street down when I saw the pedestal. Just like in the game. I touched it and the ground glowed. The vision of my home faded and the world turned black with only the pedestal in front of me. The pedestal had various symbols on it. Not as many as the ones in the game.
I just went ahead and touched one. It was like when I first came through the world. I was falling then I stopped. It was a Chantry. There were a couple of lay sisters around. They nodded at me, giving me some hellos, and Halo stayed really close. I heard someone praying and recognized it. Leliana was kneeling in front of the statue of Andraste with a Revered Mother next to her.
"Leliana!" I said, coming towards her. She stood up and frowned. Oh right, in her vision she didn't recognized anyone.
"Oh hello. Do I know you?" She said.
"Please don't stop her from reciting her prayers." The revered mother said. I saw a demon for a fraction of a second. "It keeps her calm and helps the people in the world."
"Helps the people? Prayers can only do so much. Sometimes you just need to get out there and do something. Remember Leliana? Faith can only do so much." I argued. Halo right behind me.
"I do not know what you're talking about. Please leave, I must continue the chant." Leliana said.
"Leliana this isn't you. You don't belong here and you know that. You're not one to stay here while people are suffering out there!" I said.
"She said to leave!" The revered mother shouted. The mask was fading.
"Revered Mother?" Leliana saw it as well.
"She's not the Revered Mother and this isn't the Chantry. This is the fade remember? The Circle Tower? Demons? The sloth demon that put us all to sleep? She's trying to keep you here, fight it!" I said.
"Enough! You will leave her to her meditation!" She snarled. Yes the mother snarled.
"Holy Maker!" And all hell broke loose. The lay sisters came and the Revered Mother launched themselves at me. I rolled out of there. Leliana had her bow on her but I saw her hesitation. I punched one in their face and their skin sickeningly fell off on the ground. The demon stared at me, half of it's face torn off. Holy Jesus Christ help me. Then a woosh of an arrow went through it's head. Their faces were gone. Instead, Demons replaced them.
They started towards Leliana. I stabbed one with both of my daggers and it wooshed out of existance. I cut a calf here, got an ankle there. Once they were on the ground, Leliana shot them with her arrows. The Revered Mother jumped on my back, clawing at me. I jumped and slammed her into the ground. Another arrow got the mark and soon we were the only ones left.
The Chantry was gone. The world faded and it turned into the blurred reality of the fade. I had to catch my breath a little. I felt sick, so I promptly threw up. Can you throw up in the fade? Yes. Yes you can.
"Holy Maker! The Revered Mother...she was...a demon!" Leliana said. I wiped my mouth.
"Yep, seems like it. You remember everything?" I wished for some water, got some water, rinse and spat. Repeat.
"I...I remember the tower. The Sloth demon putting us all to sleep...all of this is a dream?" Ah mouth is clean.
"Yeah. I'm glad you're among the living Leliana. Come on. Now that we got you out of your dream, this is probably going to implode on itself."
"Im-what? Wait, where are you going?" Leliana said before both of us exploded in purplely white light. I felt woozy for a second and found myself in front of the pedestal again. One of the areas that were shining was gone. That must have been Leliana's dream. So that meant I had to go into every single one? This was going to be a long day.
I just chose another dream randomly. I felt dizzy. I stumbled but then I felt someone help me stand. Alistair looked at me with an amused glance.
"Nia? I was just thinking about you! How much of a coincidence is that?" Alistair said.
"And who is this Alistair?" At first I thought it was going to be Goldanna like in the game, but instead I found myself staring into a dead man. Duncan.
"Oh you've already met?" Crap I must have said it outloud. "Anyway, this is Duncan and this is the Weisshaupt fortress isn't it grand?" High arches, carved stone, beautiful floor. I just looked in awe. It reminded me of the churches back in Mexico, the old ones decked in gold and surrounded by paintings.
"Wow." For a dream, this was pretty cool.
"I'm glad you like it Alistair." Duncan said, putting his hand on his shoulder. He looked like a proud father. Alistair never looked so happy. "Now will your friend stay for lunch? I hear more Grey Wardens will be coming for your promotion."
"Promotion?"
"Yes. Alistair has been made Warden Commander of all Ferelden for defeating the Archdemon." Duncan explained. I blinked my eyes and rubbed them. Ok this was totally not in the game.
"You were there! Oh don't tell me you forgot! We went in, all of us and defeated the Archdemon! Then we marched right into the Deep Roads and killed all of them. There is no more darkspawn threat!" Alistair said a bit too happy. I shook my head.
"Alistair, that didn't happen. None of that happened." I said and he looked at me confused.
"What? What are you talking about? Of course it happened. I dealt the final blow."
"Come Alistair, you'll miss your own feast."
"No. He doesn't have to."
"You're acting very strangely. Just come to the feast and we'll talk there!" Alistair said, grabbing onto my hand. Duncan was ahead of us but there was no way I was going into a lunch room full of demons. I pulled my hand away from Alistair.
"No Alistair. Just think about it. We haven't even come close to even gaining allies, let alone defeating the archdemon. And he's dead!" I said pointing to Duncan. There was the flash again on Duncan's face.
"Hey don't insult him!" Alistair shouted.
"Think about it. Really hard. How did you get here?" Alistair looked deep in thought. There was the flash again.
"It's just coming in flashes...a Tower? And a...a demon?" Alistair said, holding his head.
"Yes. That really happened. The Sloth demon put us all to sleep. Think about it some more."
"Alistair, you shouldn't keep your guests waiting." Duncan urged.
"No wait. I...I remember the Tower overtaken...by demons. We...saw one and we...fell asleep.."
"This is a dream."
"I will not let you take him!" Duncan took out his twin swords and I took out my daggers. Alistair smashed him with his shield. In Duncan's dazed state, I punched him straight in the face, then another in the throat. Alistair slashed him with his shield and I aimed downward onto Fake Duncan's head. The fortress blurred into the fade.
"Du-Duncan? I can't believe it. This was all a dream?" Alistair said. I knew that he was still pained by Duncan but there were more people to save.
"Alright. Time to keep moving." Then the sparkle started to happen but I grabbed onto Alistair before we faded away. It felt like I span around for ten minutes. The world wobbled around me and the pedestal stood before me.
"What is that?" I looked and Alistair came with me. Score! Time to continue on the other dreams.
I had to cut this chapter on my rewrite because it became longer than 7000. The rest of the dream sequence up in the next chapter!
helenGet: Well, I really do hate to give out future information but SPOILER: she actually doesn't end up with anyone. Remember that she's always reminding everyone that she is married. This is me and I'm extremely loyal to my husband. I wouldn't be able to go through with someone without fearing that he might find out. I just can't so, no romance for her. There will be romance though so hold onto your seats!
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