VIIII.
That night she had dreamed of her clan. She had scanned over each of their faces, smiled at each of their welcomed embraces, and had allowed for the feeling of relief to completely wash over her. There had been something she was forgetting, something just off in the distance that she had needed to be attending to, but whatever it had been it had become obsolete in the reverie of her return.
Free at last from human persecution, she had finally been allowed to dance naked among the trees; the leaves brushing against her skin as she had worshipped in the moonlight, her skin pale and luminescent in the darkness. The dirt, cool and baptismal, had covered her in a thin layer of silt, re-dedicating her once more to the service of the ancient elvhen God whose vallasin had come to purposely mark her body. But then,as she had begun following it's intricate pattern along the long slender lines of her form, it had soon failed to resemble the blood writing that had denoted her service to June as she had always intended, and had slowly taken on the black crude calling of another deity, entirely.
Slipping into the shallows of a dark quiet lake, she had attempted to scrub at her skin with stones, sobbing as she had tried to scrape away the totem that had somehow stained her skin with such broad and intricate strokes. But no matter how much she had bled, and how raw her fingers had become, the markings had chosen to remain much the same. Everyone who looked upon her would have no choice but to see his regalia and know that she too had betrayed her people; betrayed them in the name of a human God in which she had never truly believed. Now there would be only one God that would ever choose to hear her prayers. He had sought her out and found her worthy and left his vallasin to claim her flesh.
"Enansal, Fen'Harel!"
A/N: This has more to do with Lavellan 's own insecurities about being considered the Inquisition's "Herald of Andraste" than anything sinister Solas is doing behind the scenes. In this, at least, he is innocent. So far. Thanks for the reviews and subscriptions. Questions, comments? Hit me. I live for it.