10
The dreams
The sky was dark green, I heard a roar, a huge shape moved at the edge of my vision. Something with horns, something with scales. A dragon. Not sleek and beautiful like the dragons in fairy-tales but tainted, huge spines on its back, fangs bigger than those on the ogre. It roared again, the same roar I had heard on the night of my Joining. Flapping its huge wings it took flight. As it soared into the sky it roared again faint, but there.
"Bad dreams huh?" Alistair was sitting by the fire, Leliana was sitting nearby and Sten was nowhere in sight, neither was Morrigan come to think of it. "I remember those."
"I just, it seemed so real," I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down.
"Well it is real, sort of. You see, part of being a Grey Warden is being able to hear the darkspawn. That's what your dream was, hearing them," Alistair had pity in his eyes. "You'll block them out after a while."
"I hope I hurry up, I don't like seeing a huge dragon in my dreams. Is that the Archdemon?" I asked him.
"I don't know if it's really a dragon but it sure looks like one. Anyway now you're up let's pack up camp and get a move on."
"Give me a minuet."
I wandered over into the bushes, I was just out of sight when I heard a rustle.
"Who's there?" I hissed, another rustle.
I saw a slash of brown, creeping towards it I shot my hand out.
"AGGRRR!" a dwarf screamed.
"Bodahn? What the hell are you doing creeping around in bushes at six in the morning?" I dug my fingers deep into his shoulder.
"Enchantment!" The dwarf with the sing-song voice clapped.
"We, well we thought that… with all the darkspawn and so forth. Well we thought it might be safer to travel with a band such as yours," Bodahn coward from me. "We're perfectly happy to give you a fine discount for the inconvenience of our presence, we'll even carry your packs and tents."
"I… well if you want you're welcome to come." I was stunned.
"Excellent, well lead us to your camp and we'll begin loading your things," Bodahn clapped his hands and smiled.
I took him back to camp,
"Who is this?" Leliana asked.
"Merchants," I said as Bodahn packed up the tents.
"Weren't they in Lothering?" Alistair asked.
"Yeah."
"What are they doing here?" Morrigan sneered from behind us.
"Apparently they thought it would be safer with us."
How would that work? We spend most of our time walking into darkspawn. Ebony slouched into place at my left hip.
"We're Grey Wardens aren't we baby?" I said to her.
"Are we intending staying here for the entire duration of the day?" Sten appeared.
"Bring some popcorn why don't you!" I snapped in exasperation.
"We're done," Bodahn said to us.
"Shall we leave then?" I said, so we all collected our weapons and left with Bodahn behind us.
A\N - Ok then, things should get a little more interesting from here on in. A little slower too, I only get two weeks summer holidays, does that suck or does that suck? But I should be able to get chapter 11 up by the end of the week and the we hit a brick wall. Back to school, great (in case you couldn't tell I'm being sarcastic). So yes I hope you guys don't mind waiting a little longer for each chapter.