Connor is safe and sound and it's all thanks to Morrigan. Everyone said it was a bad idea but I knew Morrigan was trustworthy. Wynne and Irving were worn down and I wasn't about to let Jowan go anywhere near his former charge. Therefore Morrigan was the only option.
I sat her down and reminded her of the stakes. She snarked and called Connor an idiot who was beyond saving. I asked her why she didn't kill him while I was gone, as she and Sten were authorized to do. The point was made. Before she went in she gave me her word that she would bring Connor back safe and sound.
She says she saw Arl Eamon as well. Apparently the demon tried to play to any sane person's reluctance to hurt children. Naturally this did not work very well on Morrigan.
Connor is his old self again, or at least according to Bann Teagan, I'd never met the boy prior to my joining the Wardens.
He doesn't remember anything about this incident. We held a funeral for the rest of the dead, they were cast out onto into the water and the boats set alight by fire arrow. Connor asked what had happened to them. I don't envy whomever has to tell the poor boy what that Demon did.
Eamon is still comatose. The Arlessa is still going on about the Earl of Sacred Ashes. I read a lot but I'm a Grey Warden not a scholar. Father Genitivi is a brilliant scholar by all accounts, but their have been many brilliant scholars since Andraste's betrayal and all of them have failed to find the Urn. And to make matters worse he is missing. And what's even worse is that his home is in Denerim, right at the heart of Logain's power. Still I promised to see what I could do.
I briefly conversed with Sten. Mostly about the Qunari and his mission. I thanked him for not killing Connor. He thanked me for finding a way to cleanse the demon without doing so. But he demanded we get back to fighting Darkspawn. I told him that everything we did was towards that goal. He seemed skeptical.
Morrigan was exhausted after her battle with the Demon. She made me promise not to tell anyone that she had felt afraid. I told her I had to, when facing the demons in the Circle.
She asked me about the Circle, probably wanting to know about the place she had spent her entire life trying to avoid winding up in. Flemeth had told her stories about what happened to little girls who wandered too far and were captured by the Templars. From what I gather it wasn't pretty.
That gave me an opportunity to ask about something I had been taught to fear, namely unsanctioned magic, it sort of came up when we were talking about shape changing. We talked about how she learned it and I asked if it could be dangerous. Morrigan accused me of wanting to throw her in the circle, but I pointed out that if I hadn't trusted her I wouldn't have sent her into the fade to deal with Connor.
She asked if my mother would have done what Isolde wanted to do for Connor, sacrifice her life. I told her my mother had done that back at our Castle. She told me matter of factly that Flemeth would never have done such a thing, unless there was some gain in it. I don't have to be a blood mage to know what she was thinking then.
Morrigan said what really kept her going throughout all the fighting was that she would never forgive herself for dying before getting to know more than Flemeth. In yet another act of recklessness I gave her Flemeth's Grimoire. She lightened up like Griffon after a snack. I told her she was still not permitted to die. Morrigan replied that she was more than capable of not doing that.