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VI) Anders
"Messere?" He heard Bodahn's voice, calling him from slumber. He groaned slightly, and snuggled deeper into the Fade, pulling the blanket of sleep closer around him.
"Messere!" Bodahn's voice came again, more insistently this time. "You must get up! You have slept too long."
Anders growled a warning at the dwarf and tried to block out his voice.
"Messere!" poor Bodahn nearly shouted. "Please! Lady Hawke is awake!"
THAT woke Ander's up. He rose quickly to his feet, brushing the sleep from his eyes.
"Take me to her" he commanded the dwarf. Bodahn led him from the guest bedroom in which he had fallen asleep to the door of the master bedroom. Taking a deep breath, Anders opened the door and stepped inside.
Hawke was sat up in bed, propped up with dozens of pillows. She looked gaunt and pale, but her blue eyes still twinkled with mischief.
"Morning sleepy-head" she said, her voice surprisingly normal for someone who was nearly bludgeoned to death by a Qunari.
Anders coughed lightly at her joking implications. "Sorry" he smiled ruefully. "Sleeping is kind of what I do when I'm stressed."
"Why?" she asked him, genuinely curious.
"I don't know exactly" he said truthfully. "It's irrational, I know, but... I guess sleep is the one place where I feel safe."