"So," Dorian said sipping a fruit filled wine from a mug. "Do you have a favorite?"

Juno smashed down her shot glass and choked on the liquid, not from the burn but from the question. She made a motion at the bartender to refill her glass while she continued. "A favorite? You really don't understand this polyamory thing, do you?"

"No but I want to learn," Dorian pouted as his eyes locked onto the ass of a passing recruit.

"I don't have a favorite, I mean, some days I want to be with one over the other for whatever reason. Like for example Bull and Sera are more fun for adventurous dates. Josie is fun to go shopping with and do other fancy, fine things. And Blackwall is content to just lay next to me and stroke my hair as I fall asleep. But, like, they can all also do the other things. Well except Sera's not very fond of the fancy. But besides that." Juno threw another shot back.

Dorian nodded. "So how did you all..." he swirled his glass at her in a get together motion. As she prepared her answer he pulled a piece of fruit out or his drink and popped it in his mouth.

"Well. I was flirting with everyone, as you know."

Dorian interjected, "You? Flirt? Never! We all know you are most holy and pure of all-"

Juno whacked him gently on his face with her shot glass. "Anyways, we were all flirting and Bull got together with Josie and discussed the possibility of a polyamorus relationship with me if I agreed. And Josie was thrilled by the idea, however she knew mine and her mutual interest in Blackwall, which she explained to Bull. Bull was fine with the notion and the two of them went to him. He took a while to think about it, but then agreed. The three of them arranged to meet me in my chambers and I agreed as well. It was my favorite outcome." She pounded back another shot.

"And Sera?" Dorian asked swirling his drink in one hand.

"Ah, yeah that was later. She found out about everything and explained she was okay with it, and wanted to join, but made it clear her interest was only in me, not Josie, or obviously Bull or Blackwall. I brought up the inquiry to them, they all agreed, she joined in."

Dorian nodded. "What about that fellow Josie was engaged to, have you done anything about that?"

Juno nodded. "Yeah he agreed to duel me. But then I brought Blackwall, Bull, and even Sera joined in. When he inquired, Sera agreed she should sit out since she wasn't technically involved with Josie. Needless to say we won. Bull and Blackwall picked her up and she leaned down and planted a kiss on my head. It was all very romantic."

Dorian laughed, "Sounds about right for something Varric's trash that Cassandra tried to get me to read."

"Kadan!" Bull bellowed wrapping his arms around Juno's waist and smooching her neck, then her cheek, and when she turned into him, her lips.

"Get a room you two!" Dorian said jokingly.

"Wanna join in?" Bull winked.

Dorian scoffed. "Juno there was something I wanted to discuss with you besides our girl talk."

"He does want to join in!" Bull said with wide eyes. "I bet someone didn't I? Who'd I bet?" Bull walked off further into the bar looking for the supposed person he forged a wager with.

Dorian rolled his eyes as he finished his drink. "No, I wanted to talk business."

"Business?" Juno countered.

"Business. Specifically, Winter Palace business." Dorian said setting his drink down. "I know that you feel Adamant Fort is the more pressing matter, but Celine's life is in the balance. Every night there are balls and peace talks trying to be negotiated and we are letting her sit. It will take one night to end all of this."

"One night," Juno repeated. "And travel time. Dorian, I've said it before and I've said it again, Adamant Fort affects everyone across all lands and cities wrongly. If Celine dies, she has a replacement, and even if it does negatively impact, it only impacts Orlais."

"Inquisitor, you know I respect your decisions normally but this one I simply cannot agree with." Dorian said. "It affects all of us. And who's to say the person next put in power, Gaspard, is not an agent of Corypheus? Then we've just stabbed ourselves in the foot."

"Dorian I understand and respect your concerns, but I am the one who has to live with these consequences and these are the consequences I'd prefer to have rest on my shoulders." She said. "I'm sorry. We will go to the Winter Palace as soon as we return."

Dorian nodded. "I suppose I must understand."

He stood up from the table and moved to one full of young recruits. Juno sighed resting her elbows on the table and her head in her hands. "Kadan?" Bull asked rubbing her back softly.

"Yes?" Juno said looking up.

"Wanna go back upstairs and talk about what's going on?"

"And I just can't keep making decisions and my own men complaining about it. I already have everyone else doing that for them, I don't need weakness from within." Juno said finishing her, at this point, twenty minute rampage.

The Iron Bull nodded. "Want me to take control?"

Juno pushed up and kissed him. "Please."

Juno's wrists were tied to the top bed posts, her ankles didn't reach the bottom so Bull improvised and tied them to bricks to make it hard for her to move them without physically torturing her. Her nipples also were clamped with a bar connecting the two so that he could pull and tease both at the same time. At this point her vagina was soaking wet on to his bed but he had just started. He gave her twenty spankings to start out with so it's time to balance it out. He grabbed a flogger from the dresser next to her bed and began smacking her with it. He watched as her body grew pink, then red, but she resisted making noise, and more importantly refused to use her safe word.

He appreciated her lack of noise but he wanted to change things up so he landed a big hit right on her vulva and clit. She yelped at the unexpected sensation and he tsked. "We both know what that means, Kadan."

He got a ball gag from his drawer and fitted it in her mouth. He loved seeing her like this, vulnerable yet totally content. He swirled his finger around her clit and she moaned around the gag. "Are you going to be good, Kadan?" She nodded.

He began to run his finger on her vulva and then slipped it inside of her, but she rammed her hips up against it, so it was removed. "Why don't you prove you can be good?"

She looked at him confused. He removed the ball gag from her mouth and stuck his penis in instead. She reflexively went to grab at his ass and perineum but her hand was not able to move. She sucked his dick as hard and as good as she could, swirling her tongue around the head. He came in her mouth and she swallowed it with pride as he pulled his penis out. "Good, Kadan, good."

He moved down to her hips and began to eat her out, as a reward. Right when she got to the edge he pulled away and rammed his penis in instead. He started fucking her as fast and as deep as he could loving the sound of her every moan, gasp, and scream. He kept going until she came, once, twice, and then he came too. He finished off her third orgasm with his finger on her clit. She panted heavily as he untied her.

He smoothed her hair back and pulled her as the little spoon into his chest. "What do you want to do for aftercare today?"

"A bath." She said. She picked it out days ago. He nodded and kissed the back of her head. They laid there for a few minutes longer before he picked her up in his arms and walked to the bathroom connected to his room. There was a large clawfoot tub, normally reserved for ice baths, and he gently sat her on the toilet. He stopped the drain and began pouring hot water into the tub. While the water ran he rummaged in his medicine cabinet for her favorite bath time treat. Flower petals and a special oil from a shop in Val Royeaux. He fixed up the bath just the way she liked it and picked her up again, placing her gently inside the tub. He grabbed a wash rag from the sink and dipped it in the water before running it over her skin. She melted into his touch and he continued their routine.

He also gently washed her hair in a basin he kept in his room just for this occasion. He picked her up again and helped her to a standing position. He used his hands to rub the oils into her skin and then took a towel, patting her dry.

He kissed her forehead and helped her into her smallclothes before they crawled back into his bed for a good night's sleep.