Morrigan slowly came too, being surrounded by her friends and companions.
"Morrigan, are you alright?" Wynne asked. "What happened?"
"Hawke and Dominic pulled me into the Fade," she whispered.
"Hawke? So she was definitely taken?" Merrill asked, having been brought up to speed while Morrigan was out.
"Yes."
"Was Donna with them?" Leliana asked.
Remembering the news about her sister-like friend, Morrigan felt herself become nauseas. Turning to the side, she threw up and tears well in her eyes.
"Is Donna alive?" Alistair asked, desperate.
Morrigan looked him in the eyes. "Yes. But I wish she wasn't."
Morrigan sat there, listening to everyone talk while she tried to think of a way into the Eluvian world.
"So what did you do with that evil mirror, Merrill?" Isabela asked.
Morrigan heard and sat up straight, looking at the elven Keeper.
"Have you decided to give up blood magic?" Fenris asked.
Merrill turned and glared at Fenris. "No, Fenris, I haven't. I don't practice it, but I will use it when I deem it necessary."
"Mirror?" Morrigan asked as she got to her feet. "What mirror?"
"Merrill found a mirror in the middle of their Dalish forest and decided to rebuild it."
"It's not just a mirror, Carver," Merrill corrected. "It was the—"
"Eluvian," Morrigan finished for her.
Merrill nodded. "Yes, how did you know?"
"That's it!" Morrigan exclaimed, calling everyone's attention to her.
"What's going on?" Sten asked.
"After the Blight ended, I gathered up what knowledge I could about the Eluvian and rebuilt it from the pieces I had found. That is where I raised my son. When Flemeth kidnapped my son, she also forced me from the mirror and shattered it after me so I'd never get back. I thought there wasn't another way back until now. Where is your mirror, Merrill?" Morrigan asked.
"Wait, so the mirror Merrill decided to rebuild is the only way we can get our friends back?" Varric asked.
"And you all thought I was being silly," Merrill huffed.
"Where is your Eluvian, Merrill?" Morrigan asked.
Merrill looked down. "After what happened with Keeper Marethari, I broke the mirror into seven pieces and spread them around Thedas."
"Well, we need to hurry," Morrigan stated. "If we want to find our friends before they die, we need to fix that mirror. I doubt Flemeth knows about the second mirror."
One month, Hawke thought to herself. It had been one month since she had contacted Morrigan and Donna was still being raped as if she were the last warm body on this earth. One month of Hawke being drained of most of her blood and filled with Fire Lily essence, highly corrosive liquid. One month since Donna had Lyrium forced into her blood stream to give her body a fighting chance, Flemeth had said. Of what, Hawke didn't know, and doubted she wanted to. It wasn't a surprise when Donna's veins were lit up from under her skin. It was like Fenris, only hers showed up from her veins and not like a winding tattoo. His pain was skin deep. Hers was internal. She was adjusting to the harsh treatment, which was sad all in itself. No one should be used to rape like she was becoming and afterwards, never stopped trying to cheer Hawke up with a smart ass comment.
They were surprised when Flemeth entered.
"Congratulations, Warden. You're pregnant."
Two months later...
"I finally figured it out," Donna said to Hawke as they were chained down again.
Dominic clung to Donna since he had been brought in with them.
Through a glass window, they could see Flemeth had set up candles covering the rim of the arena. In the centre was a human male, tied down and naked.
"What's going to happen to us?" Dominic asked.
"She's going to perform a similar ritual as your mother. She wants your soul, Nic."
Dominic shook his head. "No, I refuse to let her have me."
Donna shrugged, already reserved to death after three months of torture and a couple more months of non-stop fighting. She looked down at her stomach where her baby bump was beginning to show.
"Alistair and I...we had many arguments over a child. We both knew having a child would be a slim to none chance. Many times, he made me feel as if it were my fault. In a way, I guess it was. I didn't give him a chance when I declared myself his queen. He was pressured by the nobles to produce an heir and I couldn't give it to him. There was even talk of dethroning me and putting Anora back as Queen yet he always fought to keep me by his side."
Tears came to Donna's eyes and they trailed down her cheeks as she tried to let go of her life, knowing they were going to die.
"The day I disappeared was the day I planned to leave my husband," she admitted and broke into sobs. "I couldn't be the queen that Ferelden needed and I knew that if Alistair didn't let me go, they'd find a new King and Queen."
Hawke watched the woman she came to see as a sister break after so much trauma and pressure.
"I just wish...I just wish I could see him one last time and tell him that I love him."
Dominic buried his head in her stomach and clung to her. "I know about the ritual you let Alistair perform with my mother. She thinks I don't know but she talks in her sleep. You let him lie with mother so that he would live."
"I was selfish. I didn't want to die, either, just in case something happened to Riordan."
"But because of your sacrifice, I was born and purified the soul of a tainted god."
"In case one of you survive, could you tell Alistair to look after the mages and our friends?"
"You'll make it, Donna," Dominic whimpered.
Donna shook her head and ran her hands through his fingers as much as the chains would allow.
"Flemeth hates me too much to see me live. My chances have been 0% since the time I first arrived here."
"I'll figure something out," Hawke promised herself.
"Hawke—No, Lady. You are one of the strongest willed people I've ever met. If anyone could survive this, it's you. You're like a sister to me and I hate that you have to suffer through my pain. I tried to protect you as much as I could since it was me Flemeth wished to punish. But now...I guess this is it."
"There, all done!" Merrill exclaimed as they stood before the remade Eluvian.
Morrigan placed her hand on the mirror and spoke the ancient words of foreign tongue before the mirror glowed brightly.
"Everyone ready?" Morrigan asked.
After hearing everyone's confirmation, Morrigan turned back to the mirror and pushed through the shimmering purple portal.
With the pull of a chain, Hawke was strung up in a way she was sadly used to.
Flemeth stabbed her legs, cutting her Femoral Artery. As the blood gushed out, she collected it in a large bowl. After the bowl was almost overflowing, she went back to the arena and began to paint the demonic ritual into the ground with the blood.
Donna watched as Flemeth forced herself onto the man, unable to hear the words she spoke as she worked on gaining the man's seed. When the man arched his back off the ground, she knew he came in her.
"Ahh!" Turning, she found a Hurlock holding Dominic by his hair before he drove a dagger into the boys chest.
"Dominic!" Donna screamed in horror as the boy was thrown away.
As he landed outside her own circle, she reached for him, pulling on the chains keeping her down to the ground.
The Hurlock moved for her. She couldn't move and blinding pain filled her as the Hurlock stabbed her pregnant belly multiple times to ensure its death. Donna screamed and collapsed as the Hurlock made off to Flemeth with the dagger coated in Dominic's and her baby's blood. The whole time, Hawke screamed and struggled to get free.
Donna's body was beginning to stain with her blood and complete Flemeth's ritual. She understood now.
With the sacrifice of an unborn child of taint, a circle of magic blood and the soul of a god, she was as good as pregnant with Dominic's soul, tainted by the sacrifice.
Through her pain, she reached for Dominic and with the last of her strength, she pulled him into her circle and laid his head on her chest as they drew their last breaths.
Weakly, she began to sing.
Hahren na melana sahlin
Emma ir abelas
Souver'inan isala hamin
Vhenan him dor'felas
In Uthenera na revas
Vir sulahn'nehn
Vir dirthera
Vir samahl la numin
Vir 'lath sa'vunin'
Hawke's desperation forced her veins of Fire Lily Essence to awaken and suddenly, she was on fire, though she was unharmed. The flames melted the chains holding her up and she fell to the ground without grace. Quickly recovering, she sent fireballs at the darkspawn within the room, killing them instantly and taking her place inside Donna's ritual circle, bleeding all over them once her flames died down. Her world spun as she became faint with blood loss but held onto the two.
"I can reverse this!" Hawke cried desperately, hugging them both. "I'm so sorry!"
Her tears fell as her blood mixed with Donna's, the baby's and Dominic's in the circle. The circle lit up and Dominic smiled with his eyes closed.
"I will not be tainted again," he spoke with wisdom. "This time, I shall choose who to be born to."
His body faded, leaving behind his soul in the shape of a white orb that disappeared. Dabbing her hand in the blood around her, she covered Donna's wound as her heart stopped beating.
'Please...live...' Hawke thought to herself.
The last thing she heard was the door bursting open and someone calling their names.