Sebastian left his chest guard on the floor of Fenris's mansion when they finally left into the night. Cameron managed to heal his wound most of the way before the collar latched onto her, but his side still pained him and the added weight of the armor would only slow them down. Fenris carried the still unconscious mage as they made their way through the streets of Hightown to the Amell estate. They planned on taking the path through the Amell's wine cellar to reach Anders to avoid as much time in the open as possible.

Sandal opened the door just as they reached it. He looked up at the two men smiling. "Nice lady need to go to basement?" he asked them, stepping out of the way. Sebastian was still awed by the strange young dwarf and nodded. Fenris barely gave the boy a second look before hurrying past.

The clinic was luckily just outside the Amell bolt hole, and they had no more problems bringing Cameron to the Warden Mage. Sebastian popped the lock on the clinic's door to prevent Fenris from simply kicking it in. It was Sebastian that called out for Anders, and it was only a moment before the room lit up and Anders stepped into view from behind a storage shelf. It took Anders less than a second to assess the situation, and he barked out orders to place Cameron on a small cot. He pushed Fenris out of the way as he leaned in to examine her, taking note of the ruined robe and thread worn shift that had been hastily put on. He quelled the surge of jealousy that these two men had seen more of Cameron than he was ever likely to see.

"What happened?" he finally asked seeing as there was no immediate danger to her. Fenris glared at the abomination, and before any more animosity could boil up Sebastian stepped in to explain.

"Hawke and I were attacked by some slavers in Hightown. The last one got his dagger in me pretty good, but Hawke started to heal me right before she was, um," he looked to Fenris, unsure of exactly what had happened to her.

"Collared." Fenris spat out the answer. He was barely concealing his anger, but neither Sebastian nor Anders knew who that anger was directed at.

"What does that mean?" Anders turned his eye to Fenris, needing more information than simply 'collared.' Fenris took a breath to calm his voice before answering.

"The magisters don't just make slaves of elves and humans. They also make use of less powerful mages. To insure these mages don't try to 'better' themselves, the magisters use artifacts to cut off the mages' magic unless it is called for. They call it collaring, a trick they picked up from the Qunari." Anders's eyes began to glow blue as Justice started to slip free from his control.

"And this has been done to this mage?" Sebastian gasped, taking a step back. He had heard what Anders was, but had never seen it first hand. Fenris stood his ground, glaring at the abomination.

"Yes. But it has been removed. She will recover." The light faded from Anders's eyes, and he shook his head. He turned back to the cot with Cameron.

"You're sure she'll be fine?" his voice was filled with worry, memories of seeing his friends being made Tranquil resurfacing as he stared down at her prone form.

"Provided you heal her blood loss and the holes in her spine," Fenris did not pull his punches around the healer, and his questions were simply delaying Cameron's healing. Anders glared at Fenris, but turned his attention back to Cameron.

Used to working alone, Anders didn't ask for help as he lifted Cameron into a seated position and pulled the shift up to reveal the bandaged wounds on her back. He needed to see exactly what he was dealing with, and began to pull at the hastily done bandages. A blue film had covered the holes on her spine, and Justice's voice was for his ears only.

"Lyrium!"

"I can see that," Anders muttered out loud.

"It is singing in her, like in the elf."

"That's not possible, isn't it?" Fenris and Sebastian exchanged glances as they listened to the one sided conversation.

"Let me touch her." Anders laid her back down on the cot, backing away from her.

"Absolutely not!"

"Please!"

"No!" Anders all but yelled, casting a simple healing spell to distract both himself and Justice. As the magic touched her, Cameron's body violently arched like a bow. A startled gasp was the only sound she made as her eyes flew open and the world appeared shrouded by a blue mist. At her reaction, Anders stopped his spell and he and Fenris rushed to her side. Sebastian stayed in his corner, softly praying for his friend.

The spell was still working inside Cameron, she could feel the holes along her spine knitting together, but didn't understand the tingling on the side of her face and neck.

"Maker's breath!" Anders breathlessly exclaimed as he stared at her, Fenris's face was an emotionless mask, but his eyes burned with an unknown fury. Cameron looked back and forth between the two men, getting scared by their strange reactions and how the room still seemed to shimmer in a blue glow.

"What's going on? Did my nose fall off?" Cameron tried to ease her growing nerves with a bit of humor, but it didn't help; neither Anders nor Fenris spoke. It was finally Sebastian who broke the silence as he stepped from the shadows of his corner.

"There are…markings," he told her gently. Cameron's hand shot up to her neck where she still felt the tingling. Beneath her fingers she could feel the traces of raised lines, so similar to the ones she had felt on Fenris's hand. Her eyes widened as she met his eyes, but as the healing spell faded from her body, the shimmer and the lines receded away. Fenris let out a soft breath, and dropped his gaze. He stood, turning away from her and she watched his back before turning to Anders.

"They're gone now," Anders told her, but in his mind, "Liar! She still sings so beautifully!" Cameron smiled up at him.

"Well, I guess that's something," she turned her attention to the third man in the room, "Sebastian, thank you. For earlier, I mean." The prince smiled sadly at her.

"I owe you the same," he told her softly touching the blood stained shirt he wore. Concern filled her eyes as she remembered the events that led to her waking in the clinic.

"So it went off? Before I was hit?" she asked him, forcing herself to stand up through the wave of nausea that hit her with the change of position. Sebastian nodded.

"Mostly, I am alive after all."

"Mostly?"

"It still pains me, but I believe the worst of it was taken care of." Cameron frowned and before even thinking about it, she cast her own spell to finish his healing. Fenris jerked in response at the unexpected spell, and the unexpected power behind it. Even Anders fell back slightly from her, Justice slipping past his defenses.

Once again the room shimmered with a blue glow and she felt the soft shivers in her cheek and neck, but the spell went off with no problems. In fact, the spell seemed stronger than she had intended it to be. She blinked rapidly as the blue in her vision and the tingles in her skin faded with her spell.

"Well, that wasn't expected," was all she said as she looked at the three astonished men in the room.