Aviene woke up to see her companions standing around her with concerned faces.
"I had the weirdest dream last night! It was just so crazy, the Crows hated me for some reason and captured all you guys, and I actually had the nerve to slap Meredith in the face with a rotting fish, and then I went into the Gallows and stole Bethany, and I kinda remember a barfight, and then a drinking song, oh, and Zevran was 't that the most crazy dream?" Aviene scanned her companion's faces. " Damn. It's not a dream, is it?" She could tell the answer by just looking at their downcast expressions. "Can someone help me up? My legs are bloody killing me and I don't want to lie on this floor longer than I have to. The Maker only knows when they last cleaned the place." Isabela extended a hand out to Aviene and tried to pull her up from the floor.
"Andraste's ass!" That earned a glare from Sebastian, "Hawke how much have you been eating ?! I mean, a little fruitcake in the Christmas season is fine but really, I think you need to shed a few pounds!"
"Hey! Who are you to make fun of my weight? Maybe you're just getting weaker."
"Or I'm teasing you." Isabela pulled her up from the floor in one fluid motion and flashed her a white-toothed smile. " Good to see you made it to the party, but I don't really like the hosts, so let's find a way to get out, shall we?"
"Oh, but I just got here!" Aviene put on a pouty face and batted her eyelashes. "Can we please just stay for the food?" Aveline, who was quite cranky with the whole affair, and with Aviene making jokes while these Crow freaks might kill them all at any second, chucked some stale bread at Aviene's head. The bread hit its mark.
"Here's the food. You think that's worth staying for?" Aviene turned to face the ginger-haired gaurd captain. Her wolf-gray eyes stared into Aveline's green ones. Aveline stared (or glared) right back, and Aviene finally sighed.
"I guess I kind of deserved that."
"Yes, you did."
"So, all in favor of getting out of this shithole warehouse, chuck your bread at someone!" Bread was soon flying everywhere, and even Fenris, usually so serious, was hurling bread at Anders as hard as he could. Merrill used some kind of spell to give her more bread, and ended up being buried in a large pile of whole-grain wheat loaves, with just her feet sticking out.
"Girls vs. Boys!" Someone shouted, and the different genders rushed to opposite sides of the room. Since it is nigh unto impossible to make a fort from loaves of bread, the mages magicked up a fort for each of them. Merrill, being the creative elf she was, even added turrets to fire bread from. Varric took the bolts out of Bianca and started cramming (in a gentle way) bread wafers in her slots. Cries of 'Capture the flag! Capture the flag!' rang out. Soon, someone from the girls team (Merrill) successfully got into the boys fort only to discover that the flag was a fake and she was put in to a makeshift bread-jail. Aviene went out on a rescue mission.
Getting into the fort was a breeze. Finding the jail was a little harder, but she found a map of the fort on a little bread table and followed it to the jail. Aviene ran up to the cell and tapped Merrill's hand. Merrill ran like a frightened deer and Hawke made a move to follow, but someone blocked her path.
That someone was Fenris.
He smirked at her. "Going somewhere?" Aviene stepped back to go the other way.
"Yes, I am. See if you can stop me."
With that, Aviene ran and Fenris chased after her. Aviene wound through tunnels with marvelous speed. As she came to an intersection she chuckled, knowing that she had lost him. Suddenly, there was someone coming from the other way. Aviene recognized him and tried to run, but he kept getting closer and closer until finally he was close enough to tap her. Through a miracle, She was able to dodge him for a while and when she saw the fort doors ahead, she used one last spurt of strength to make a mad dash. She made it out and smiled triumphantly.
"Yes, Fenris, I am going somewhere, and you can't stop me!" With that, she turned and ran.
Woah, awesomeness! This balanced out to exactly 777 words! Woohoo, snow days are awesome!