Faelyn had been gone for almost a month this time. When Athenril finally gets hold of her, she will not be pleased by her disappearance. But she couldn't have left Athena to deal with all that trouble herself, could she? Due to the connection, they shared; whether this was as consequence to the magic bloodline we shared or the fact that Fae was a Furian was still uncertain. All they knew was that there was a pull between the two of them. The first time Faelyn learned that she could actually transport herself to Athena's location was nine months ago when Athena was in danger.

Fae had just arrived back at Gamlen's. Due to the late hour everyone else was asleep. That's when she felt it. The panic. Breathing fast and in short breaths Fae doubled over. The feeling overwhelmed her. Her body started acting on its own accord and she started chanting. Although Fae couldn't understand the words but they sounded like ancient Arcanum. When she finally came to, she was standing on a mountain path, below her in the valley there was a battle going on, from the smell, it was darkspawn. There were five people battling a small hoard of them. At that precise moment the sun darted from between clouds. The sunlight hitting one area in particular and her heart stopped.

Athena! You're alive...

Without a second thought Fae ran. Jumping off a high bolder, flipped and landed with a sickening crack on the creature that was attacking the redhead with a bow. Drawing her weapons, she cut down the darkspawn standing in the way of getting to Athena. Her eyes widened with realisation, before Athena smirked and simply continued fighting. By the time Fae reached her they were back to back. They worked in perfect unison to fight off the rest. Fae grabbed her arm and spun her so she kicked the heads of two hurlocks with such force that their necks broke. Faelyn then spun around, taking a third down with the head shot as it blindly attacked the blond warrior. Picking up an axe she threw it at the head of one attacking the mage. Finally, using her speed, Faelyn darted around the others, cutting down as many darkspawn as she could.

"I don't know how you got here, but your timing couldn't have been better" Athena panted once the last of the darkspawn had been defeated. She was sitting on the grass, still gripping the blades in each hand.

Reaching to help her to her feet Fae grinned "I just think you're getting slow in your old age"

"Athena do you know-"

The blond warrior who had come up behind her just stood there with his mouth open, staring at the two of them.

Athena giggled "Alistair this is my cousin, Faelyn. She's the one I told you about." Fae gave her a questioning look but said nothing.

"Cousin?! Athena! She looks like your twin!"

They both had laughed at that point. They were in fact the spitting image of each other. The only difference was that Faelyn's eyes were a molten gold, whereas Athena's were a sapphire blue. Other than that, they were the same height, build, hair colour, etc. Athena made the introductions as the others came closer.

Faelyn began transporting herself between Kirkwall and Athena's locations on a regular basis. It always seemed to be when she was in danger or when they were at camp. She became close friends with the others. Nearly every time she appeared Oghren would challenge her to a drinking competition, which he would win more often than not. Morrigan let her read part of her mother's grimoire, it was a spell which enabled communication between long distances, and a pendant belonging to Athena was instantly enchanted.

Faelyn had also helped in Denerim during the fight against the archdemon. Thankfully everyone thought she was Athena, it made everything much less complicated. Athena had been gravely injured, although without the ritual Morrigan had spoken of, she would most likely be dead. The healers that remained were not strong enough to heal her. It was then that Alistair and Wynne learned what exactly Faelyn was. All she remembered was the gasps of shock and horror as they watched her heal her cousin. Faelyn was bent over, her forehead touching Athena's as she gathered the mana around her and sent it directly into the wounds. Athena's injuries were healed immediately and within seconds her eyes fluttered open.

This time Athena had called Faelyn to help her in Amaranthine. Smiling to herself she remembered being reacquainted with Nate for the first time since he first taught her how to use the bow. Even with years practicing she still couldn't beat him. As they had done in the past, they teamed up to tease Athena, telling other wardens childhood stories and were rewarded by Athena's face flushed with embarrassment.

Faelyn had become good friends with another mage there by the name of Anders, he was flirty, confident and cocky. Not her type but she felt comfortable around him, almost as if he was family. He was definitely more Beth's type but with his heart-breaking personality there was no way in the Maker's name she would introduce them. They had great fun trying to teach Justice about human emotions, especially sarcasm.

Athena had learned that the Keep and town would be attacked at the same time, she hadn't wanted to decide between the two so she called Faelyn to help. She was tasked with protecting the town and had decided to add Anders and Nate to her team.

I could've done it by myself, don't know why she insisted the others came along…

Once again Faelyn had to pretend to be Athena. After the Mother had been defeated, Faelyn had ended up staying longer than she normally would have to help with rebuilding. Although the festivities helped, she even got to beat Oghren at his own game! The sight of him and Anders passed out on the floor was enough to set her off giggling again.

"How was Athena this time?" Beth yawned from her curled-up position in the chair. She had been covered by so many blankets Faelyn hadn't even realised she was in the room.

"You mean the new Queen of Fereldan?" She couldn't help it, she fell to the floor with laughter at Beth's shocked expression.

"Really? You're being serious? I thought she loved Alist-" slumped to the floor as she finally put the pieces together. "By the Maker... Alistair was Maric's son..."

Pulling herself up she walked over and gave Beth's shoulders a squeeze. "Yep, she said they'd try to visit as soon as possible. But it's late, I'm drained and although you're now wide awake, I'm heading to bed."

With that Faelyn walked into the bedroom she shared with mother and Beth and without even bothering to remove her clothing she fell into bed. Grinning sleepily to herself...

Wait until mother hears about this…

Over the next few weeks, they finished off tasks for Athenril. As it turned out, Carver and Bethany had kept working the month that she was away, using excuses as to why Faelyn wasn't with them when taking or completing a task. It was during one of these tasks that she and Carver learned that a dwarf by the name of Bartrand Tethris was looking to go on an expedition into the Deep Roads.

"What do you think about going into the Deep Roads? By the sounds of the money he's offering, we'd be earning a fair amount, as well as any finds that we make."

"From the excited tone in your voice Fae, we already know that you want to go." Carver was leaning against the stone wall outside our little hovel. His arms were crossed across his chest and his face showed serious concentration. "But we need money, status, anything we can rub into the Templar's faces and I think this might be our ticket to doing that."

"Well if that's how it is then I will definitely join. I shall leave it up to you to decide as to if you want to join or not..."

At this Carver laughed "Since when have you stopped coddling me and allowing me to make my own decisions? You've never done so in the past, what changed?"

Smiling, Fae answered sincerely, "I think it started at Ostagar, it made me realise that you can fend for yourself. Then in the last year you've seemed to stop losing your temper, also the times that I was away you've continued with the tasks Athenril gave and protected mother and Beth. I still see you as my little brother whom I want to protect but I won't stand in your way, it's up to you how you want to live your life and I will do my best to support you." With that Faelyn walked over and gave his arm a squeeze before walking inside. Just as she closed the door she heard Carver's "Thank you.."

After getting a... not so nice refusal from Bartrand they met his brother Varric. While talking to him they learned that a partnership would be a more enticing way to get in on the expedition. Since their year of service to Athenril was over with the amount of money they got from jobs would stay in the family rather than a hefty portion of it going back to her. With Varric's help they started doing odd jobs to reign in the sovereigns. Aveline helped with a few of the jobs but Faelyn decided to leave her out of the less than legal ones.

Although, there was only so much of Carver's complaints about not being hired as a city guard that Faelyn could take. After receiving a letter from Athenril telling her of a contact who was in need of assistance we set off to meet with Anso.