A/N Well it seems this has a new update, I will not say that it had been sitting for a time - cause it has- and I hope you like the new chapter.
Enjoy
Deedo grew up in Felwithe like most others of her kind. Within the High Elven city she grew like all the other Koada'dal children, until she came of age, it seemed that over night she blossomed into a strikingly beautiful young woman.
Unaware of her outward appearance, she was still a caring warmhearted individual, giving her last copper if need be. She did come to learn the power of speech, she tested her new knowledge during a shopping trip for a new robe, and she managed to haggle for it to become affordable to her.
One of the caster guild members Kenool Goldsinger spotted Deedo, he just so happened to catch her in the act of charming the shop owner to lower his prices.
Enchanting, an Enchantress, that became her gift, and she used it well. Deedo could be anyone or anything and she loved it, she could stop a fight with a blink of the eye or a well placed mesmerizing spell.
As the years passed, she grew even more beautiful and even caught the eye of several men during her stay within the safety of Greater Faydark. Deedo branched out from the Imperial City of Felwithe to the far reaches of Norrath, to then settle in the second human city Qeynos, along the way she met many a person, but there are but a handful who remain with her to this day...
The Twins Wood Elves, Ruroni, and Tenkou - Bard and Druid, respectably, then there is her childhood friend Xellexes, a Wizard of her race, then there is the Half Elf Lili'Enyel a Ranger from Surefall Glade, these four travel with her and have stuck by her side thick and thin, they are her family.
Traveling to and from one corner of Norrath to the other gives her the greatest joy. She has taught others how to survive in the world around them from her varied experiences.
However, not all stories are quite so happy Deedo's trust and beauty has caught the attention of one man in particular, Draven Thorne.
He was handsome, and sweet, someone who Deedo opened up to on a mutual level of friendship in addition, respect.
Draven was one of the libraries assistance, and managed to help Deedo any opportunity he could when she made her way to the Plane of Knowledge.
On a routine trip to the Plane of Knowledge, she stopped in for a few powerful spell components - with Lili'Enyel and the others waiting for her in various places of the library - none expected her to vanish without a trace. No sooner than she headed through the threshold and away from her companions, she was stunned and her world went black.
High and low, they searched for their friend and nothing they had gone as far as to seek the aide of the Goddess Tunare, when the Goddess herself saw nothing of her child – that was when they knew… Deedo Swiftleaf defiantly was gone.
It was a sad day for all that knew the High Elf, and a memorial was held for her after two years of searching.
~O~O~O~O~
A few months later – after the initial incident, Deedo found herself placed in a room, which looked comfortable enough with its warm and inviting decor, groggy she stood from the plush bed and examined her surroundings.
Going for the door she pulled the latch she found that the door would not budge, 'Do not panic there has to be someone around.' She thought to herself as her stomach churned, she felt a wave of nausea wash over her finding a pail close to the door she released the contents of her stomach.
A short time after Deedo freshened herself the locked door opened reviling a man, someone she recognized from trips to the library Draven stood with his ice blue eyes, smiling at Deedo - who assumed he was there to help her leave.
"Draven, thank Tunare you are here, I do not know what had happened or where I am. I know I was going into the Library and the next I awoke here." She gestured around the room as Draven stepped closer to her.
Placing a hand on her cheek, he smiled kindly to the woman he came attached to. "You are in a safe place, you do look a little pale, are you feeling well?" He looked her over and placed a hand on her abdomen, "How is our child, growing comfortably I hope."
Deedo looked up flabbergasted, "What?" She felt sick once more as a sharp pain in the lower part of her stomach spread across her belly.
"Our child, mine and yours, until the woman who paid greatly for it arrives."
~O~O~O~O~
That is when things turned worse as the sweet expression of the man who was so kind and attentive soon twisted into someone very unrecognizable.
Backing her onto the wall he grabbed her face and walked her to the bed, he ignored her muffled screams and pleas as he held her mouth open, she went for her dagger constantly on her hip, and found it not there.
He summoned his pets to hold her still while he performed his evil, pouring a foul liquid down the High Elf's throat then poured another across her stomach Deedo watch as her taught stomach grew large and round, something was defiantly alive, and moving rapidly inside, she could feel it.
Deedo's pain was so great she lost consciousness, when she woke she found, a healing scar on her abdomen and a small infant next to her, Caramel skin and sable colored hair with her aqua eye color, the child was beautiful and she watched the large aqua doe eyed baby.
Taking the child in her arms she felt the essence of herself within the child, she was a hybrid but the babe did not look so, she looked like a Wood Elf with her beautiful bronze skin and her hair the color of the newborn fawns in spring.
~O~O~O~O~
For three years she loved her daughter, she named her Deedolett – Little Deedo, and as the child grew, she taught to her minor things any child could be able to do, Deedo taught her to read little bits from the books that where left in their room, finding her to be a very intelligent child.
Deedolett sat on the rug in the middle of the room one evening looking at the fire flickering on the candle setting on the mantle of the fireplace,
The elder Deedo smiled watching her baby from across the room, "The fire is not going to move because you wish it my love." Deedo then saw as her daughter moved the flame from the wick to eye level.
"Well now, I take that back, can you do anything else with it?" She carefully stood to sit next to the small elven child, Deedolett made a figure of a bunny and they watched as it hopped about the little girl giggled and clapped and before Deedo knew it the bunny turned white. It had been frozen, "Cold!" Deedolett exclaimed excitedly.
"Yes my love, cold, so you can control the elements." She kissed the soft curls of her child as she continued to play with her new ability.
Deedo had begun to prepare a trinket box for her daughter, filled with a few enchanted necklaces she had made, along with a few coins and a map of Norrath with other miscellaneous items, several thins that she found about the room to make her 'stay' much more pleasant. Draven knew her likes and did well to keep her and the child comfortable and content.
Deedo did the best she could under the conditions she been kept, for a year and a half has passed.
~O~O~O~O~
One peaceful night locked away from the rest of the world, she and Deedolett turned in after thanking Tunare for her many blessings, as all was peaceful and the two slept comfortably, the door opened to reveal an old and wizen woman with Draven.
He and the woman with him crept in the room snatching the young elf from her mother's grasp.
Deedo woke and felt Draven close to her – she felt the hum of the liquid that hindered her movements.
Stunning him in place she went after the old woman, trying not to hit her child she hit the woman with a jolt that seemingly unaffected the woman.
Deedo chased the woman through the dimly lit halls, which seemed like an enormous maze, as the elderly woman carried her baby out into the warm night air, stopping in a large grass field.
The moon shown high in the clear night sky illuminating the figure of the kidnapper whom held her child close, Deedo was halted from further advancement and watched in horror as the woman – who had been affected by the jolt - bled over the cloth that covered her child.
The woman reviled her true form and then as quick as ever took Deedo's form.
Speaking in a voice similar to Deedo's spoke sweet words to the child, "Worry not my precious love, you will be home soon." Then opening a portal of black and purple both the woman and her daughter vanish.
Deedo blacked when a spell caught her in mid run to the portal and to take her child back, furthermore when she finally awoke, she found herself leaning against the wall of her Qeynos home.
Lili'Enyel and Ruoni being the first to find her, helped to carry her in their home and that is when the healing began as well as a series of questions to which over the next few years they found the answers they all sought, the gateway from Norrath to Thedas.
~O~O~O~O~
"And that is how we ended up here. The spell that was used showed the location of where she was, which was the tower." Deedo tickled Vy'el's neck as he sat getting his hair brushed.
Helping the boy to his feet he ran to the twins and began to play with them. Cullen smiled as he watch Lady Deedo and he could tell she was anxious about meeting her daughter, as he himself felt a touch of anxiety and then from the corner of his eye he saw something moving.
Slowly he turned his head to face what he thought he saw, a shaft of sunlight was playing with his sight he chuckled softly and blinked as he took in the view and there standing in the light of the sun was the form of none other than Deedolett.
As he stood and slowly made his way over to the ghostly image Deedo looked over to see Cullen walking to the clearing on the other side of the wood they stopped at. Thinking nothing more of it she went about to preparing their lunch as they needed to make way soon.
~O~O~O~O~
"Deedolett?" he called tentatively as the image glided through the forest, she continued until she stopped in the clearing and danced in the warm sun of the lush green field.
Once more he called to her and she stopped and looked at him, smiled and ran towards him, his heart stopped briefly as he went to catch her and she pass right through him. Stumbling forwards slightly he followed her path and saw nothing but the sun filtering though the branches once more.
Confused by what he saw Cullen looked back to the clearing and with a heavy heart went back to the camp.
Deedo was standing ramrod straight when Cullen returned, staring ahead unmoving, a tear trickled down her cheek.
Ruroni took notice and started to shake Deedo from her trance. "Tenkou come help me something is wrong." The both of them gotten the Lady to sit as Cullen walked over Xellexes returned with filled skins of water,
"What happened here?" The templar questioned, as Xellexes walked over and checked her pupils shaking his head indicating nothing is wrong.
"She just froze, and she would not respond." Ruroni said as she held the High Elf's hand. Tenkou laid her head on her shoulder holding her other hand.
Deedo cast her eyes to Cullen, "Did you feel her or see her?" she questioned with pain in her voice.
"Saw her, I believe…. I am not sure what it was I saw. She passed right through me." Was his response as he shook his head answering as honestly as possible, still confused by the whole event.
"We need to hurry on, let us not waste another moment." Deedo held the girls hands tightly and then stood calling Vy'el and Lili. "Make sure you eat something we are going to press forwards until we get to this Denerim."
As the group of seven briskly flittered about the camp eating their lunches then packing and saddling up once more for the road to Denerim, a set of Citrine eyes watch from the trees, took wing from the braches, and followed quietly behind.
~O~O~O~O~
As night fell over Denerim Leliana and Wynne bathed and changed the young woman. Slipping the gown she wore over her head, they noticed a discoloration of grey on her back Wynne pulled the candle from the table next to the bed and upon closer inspection the skin was dry and hard, it was scaling on several places on her once smooth back.
Leliana could feel her friend breathing with difficulty as Deedolett's chest rested on her arm. "Wynne she is breathing hard I should lay her back down."
"Yes you are right, here hold her upright." Wynne placed the candle back on the table and slipped a fresh nightgown over Deedolett's head and they tucked her in for the evening.
After doing a sweep of the young mage – checking to see if there was any damage to cause her breathing to be effected, finding none she checked her pupils, and what she saw startled the elder mage, the color of her eyes were slowly turning grey.
"Leliana, I need a snack would you care for something dear?"
"I can get it Wynne but do you know why she was breathing like that?" The bard asked as she brushed Deedolett's hair.
"There isn't anything to fret over she may have been uncomfortable. I will return shortly." Wynne took her leave and headed to the castle library to find anything on the Grey Wardens the markings concerned Wynne and the breathing showed nothing was amiss with any of her organs, but something was defiantly wrong, the elf had been asleep for far too long and she was slowly becoming unresponsive to food and drink. As the senior Mage walked through the castle halls, she prayed to the Maker for a miracle.
~O~O~O~O~
"Deeds, I can see a large city up ahead, surrounded by a large wall, looks like there had been damage done as well." Lili had trotted ahead surrounded by a faint light.
Ruroni pulled her horse close and with the elven tongue mentioned there was someone following them. Deedo was not pleased about the idea of being followed, as it would prove to be a further distraction from their current venture.
'Cullen please take Vy'el." She handed the child over to Cullen and pulled her horse to a stop. Handing the reigns over to Tenkou, she slid out of the saddle as the others walked on.
"What is she going to do?" Cullen asked as they walked on.
"Obvious, stop whomever is following us from doing so. But I would not worry she is strong and can handle herself well, I think we each met her during a fight." Xellexes chuckled as he started to recall a tale of how he and the Enchantress met.
~O~O~O~O~
There was a howl coming from behind them Cullen looked back and he saw a form of a pure white wolf in the middle of the road. A prize worthy of any hunter, the wolf slipped off into the woods at great speed.
After some time the sound of fighting and barking was heard, then a black wolf emerged from the brush followed by the white beast. They ran on to a field as the others watch the skeptical from horseback, Cullen watched as the large white wolf leaped in the air and tackled the black creature.
Deedo pinned the wolf down with a paw pressing on the neck of the follower. Shifting forms once more with her hand squeezing the neck of the animal.
"Tenkou come here and speak with this animal please." She called over her shoulder.
The young druid did as told and told the horses to walk ahead they will catch up, the mounts did as told and Tenkou ran to her mentor. Tenkou made it to the two and knelt down besides the tussled wolf, who was struggling to get away.
The girl reached her hand out and the wolf snapped, Deedo gripped tighter "Do it again and I will hurt you." Her voice was low and firm Tenkou reached once more and stroked the animal's head.
"She is not wolf, she is human." The druid shrugged and rooted the animal in place. Deedo released her and stood.
"Change out of that form and into the one that is yours, I will only warn you once."
The wolf did as told and with a flash of light a woman with dark hair, pale skin, and citrine eyes looked between the two strangers straining to stand and see her captors – no longer animal she could not make out their faces.
"Your name?" Tenkou asked gently, "Morrigan, and you are looking for Deedolett I can assist you."
"Why were you following us, and how do you know of Deedolett?" Deedo pulled her dagger from her hip and pointed it at the throat of the human woman.
"I know of her from our travels during the Blight, as well as the defeat of the Archdemon. As to my following you, I believe she may be in danger from the defeat of said demon." The woman said, as she lay grounded to the earth.
"Will you kindly release me, I mean no harm. Deedolett had become my friend as she had taught me many different things from my life outside of the wood."
Tenkou looked to Deedo who looked unmoved, then the High elf's features softened with a nod she turned and walked towards the direction of the others.
"The spell will cease in a few, my… mother if you will, has accepted you. Please you may stand and follow now." Tenkou extended a hand to the witch and they hurried after the retreated form of Deedo.
~O~O~O~O~
Once they caught up to the others, Morrigan wondered how they were able to see their way in the moonless night.
"We are elves, and we can see in the dark." Ruroni spoke up.
"Morrigan…close your eyes." Deedo called behind her, and with a simple flick of a finger the spell was cast. "You may open your eyes now."
Morrigan opened her eyes and it was as if the sun was out, she scanned the group of travelers and saw a familiar face.
"You are the templar from the tower, what brings you so far from home?" She asked with child like curiosity.
"Yes, I remember you. You were with Deedolett that day." Cullen looked behind him, and Vy'el groaned, Cullen shifted the child and rejected the offer for Deedo to take him. "I came to guide them to Denerim and to make peace with Miss Surana."
Morrigan sneered slightly, "Came to your senses 'twould seem. Far better than the other idiot templar she had with her."
Deedo and the others raised their eyebrows, Deedo then spoke up, "Care to explain how you know of her, and if you did indeed travel with her… please tell of that as well."
Morrigan looked at the back of the tall woman's head, her voice sounded familiar and she felt warm and safe within her presents.
The witch cleared her throat as she walked behind, "Would you care for a ride instead?" Xellexes offered a hand to the woman walking next to him, her legs a feet were sore from the case she had, she kindly took the man's hand, and he helped her onto his steed.
"I am Xellexes, a pleasure to meet you." He said after they adjusted with the extra rider.
"Morrigan." The witch answered back as she took notice of his features, he too was an elf, a rather tall elf but elf and very handsome nonetheless.
She cleared her throat once more and began to tell of her encounter with the Grey Warden who rose from death to end the Blight.
~O~O~O~O~
Finding nothing in the library Wynne gave up for the night and called for Sten to keep watch in her place. If she had to leave to find out the reason for the scales to form on her charge then so be it. She loved the girl like a daughter, and the older woman tried to figure a cure for the young woman.
"Maybe the ashes could help, they certainly helped the Arl?" Wynne mused before she drifted off to sleep.
