Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Age or Mulan. Though Christmas is coming up…
~Dalish Camp~
Merrill was upset. Why couldn't the clan see? She was doing this for them! If she could just fix the Eluvian, they could learn so much from it! If that meant using blood magic, then so be it! She just wished her clan could understand; that they wouldn't look so disappointed in her.
She started walking into the forest, gazing sadly behind her as the keeper told everyone what had been going on. "Look at me; I will never pass for the perfect mage or the perfect keeper," she said, turning back around and heading into a clearing.
"Can it be I'm not meant to play this part? Now I see that if I were truly to be myself," she started, skipping over some rocks to get to a nearby pond, "I would break my clan's hearts."
She paused a moment and saw her refection in the water. Well, blood magic certainly wasn't the most hygienic; she was still covered blood from her most recent attempts to fix the Eluvian. "Who is that girl I see; staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know?"
She made her way over to their altar for Asha'bellanar and lit some incense. "Somehow I cannot hide, what I've done, though I try."
As she was about to leave, she caught sight of her reflection in a nearby river. She slumped down in front of it and started to clean the blood from her face. "When will my reflection show who I am inside?"
Sighing, she started to make her way back down to her clan. "When will my reflection show who I am inside?"
On her way down, she saw Keeper Marethari with a solemn expression on her face. "A man, Hawke, will be coming here sometime soon to repay a debt, you can go with him. Are you sure you want to leave, Da'len?"
"Yes. I'll do whatever I must and if that means leaving, then I'll leave."
~Author's Note~
Sorry it's kinda short, but that might be for the best really; I'm sort of off my game for writing anything at all lately that isn't a lab report. Thanks to DKAllayna for the suggestion! So I have been busy, no lie, but some of that "busyness" has been playing video games and watching Supernatural, so... Also, I just haven't felt like writing fanfiction much and what I've written this year has been part of a Merlin fic I promised I would write with some friends. Anyway, you probably don't actually care so I'll just get on with it. If you have any suggestions let me know and I'll actually try to write another one soon, so I'll see if I can make it happen.