While writing this chapter, I set a challenge at the Dragon Age Writers' Corner forum: write a story from the perspective of someone discovering rain for the first time. The members of DAWC very nicely obliged, and all the stories I know of that were a challenge answer are at the bottom of this page.
This chapter is on the same subject.
Rain
Morgana
The drought that destroyed so many of the crops in Lothering ends the day after they escape - no, exit, they weren't locked in there, she reminds herself - the Tower.
She looks up at the feel of water on the back of her neck, wondering if someone's found it funny to spit on her, but who in their group would?
Another drop. She looks up. Surely, it can't be - ?
"Morgana, are you all right?"
She's about to answer Alistair's question, but more drops hit her, and she's overtaken by a sudden, wonderful realization. "Is... is this rain?"
He nods, frowning. "What, you've never been rained on before?"
She hasn't felt the rain since she was four years old; she doesn't remember what it was like. She remembers other things, though: years of lapping up all Anders' escape attempts, waiting for him to describe it, listening for the sound of it on the roof...
He always said that one of the best things about being outside the Tower was the rain.
How she wishes he were here.
If you can feel the rain, you're free. If you can feel the rain, you're alive. It was something they always agreed upon.
She looks up in wonder as the raindrops hit her face, the rain becoming heavier, feeling stupid and trying not to be too obvious.
Leliana appears to be playing with her damp hair, trying to neaten it, and she wonders why.
The words come out before she can stop them, a dazed murmur and a choked epiphany: "I'm free."
The Tower is fading out of sight behind them as they walk on, and, for once, soaked to the skin under the plates of her armour, far away from that place and with her comrades beside her, she feels that it's true.
Other "rain" stories for this challenge:
Feels Like Rain (karebear)
First Rain (MLHawke)
Rain Of Questions (deagh)
Right As Rain (MsBarrows)
Sky Water (JayRain)
The Maker's Tears (Arrocalot)