Solas awoke to a deep pain in his chest, he had lost her, his heart. And for something he did not do. He could be accused of many things but this. Had one of his men went rouge and set out to kill his heart?

"Lynias" he called out in the darkness rubbing his bald head. He gazed around the dimly lit room trying to comprehend what had just happened. Cole, Compassion dead possibly by one of his own men's hands. NO they knew better than to harm either Cole or Arya. He had left explicit orders as to the wellbeing of both and he had placed a terrible price one would pay in failing to keep them safe.

"My lord, you called." A young man with silver hair wearing a black hunters hood knelt before the Solas. "How may I be of service." The man keep his eyes toward the ground waiting to be acknowledged.

Putting on his green jacket Solas rolled his eyes as he looked at the man, "Get up Lynias. You know the rules. I am not king, no god, just a man so please stand up like the free man you are, I need you and your services. Not groveling. We are not Dalish."

"Yes Fenharel. How may I be of service?" Lynas replied standing up over seven foot tall, towering over the wolf by a foot.

"It seems there was an attempt on the inquisitor's life recently and a young boy name cole was killed in the fray. A disturbing bit of information has placed one of our own in the role of assassin. You know the rules on the Inquisitor. You know I have plans for her and her Inquisition. These turn of events could hinder things. You are to personally go to the Winter Palace, ascertain what has happened and if found to be true, bring me the guilty party and triple the guard around the Lady. I want to know where she is, what she is up to and who she is with at all times. Do you hear me?"Solas said getting up in the man's face.

"Yes ma- Fenheral. At once." the agent said saluting Solas then leaving the bald elf to his thoughts. By now his heart would be awake, crying in pain. If he were there he would take her into his arms and make her see. . . He would bring comfort to her tears as he did so many times not so long ago. For a moment he could see it rocking her back and forth in his arms, kiss the top of her head. Oh how he would make her feel safe and take away her pain. He closed his eyes an imagined sharing the sorrow with her vowing in the sweetest whisper how he would make the killer pay and would respond by burying her face in his chest. . .

Vhenan, he crooned as he looked over to large stone slab decorated with wolves guarding all four corners. It had always been his plan to bring her and Cole here just before he tore the Veil. They would be safe from his action and the war that would follow a sleep here. And when she awoke, she would be immortal, and if he survived, HIS. Though he knew he did not deserve her he hoped that the new world he built for Arya and Cole would be proof enough of his love devotion and friendship.

Now this! When this was over he would present Arya with the real master minds skin as a pelt over her lap.

WinterPalce

Arya bolted straight up in bed as fat tears streamed rivers "Solas."

"Oh Arya dear. There . . . there, it's over now." Vivienne said putting her arms around the young Inquisitor, Vivienne, Dorian, and the others had been constantly at her side in Coles death two days before. Arya looked over to Dorian and Fiona who both looked exhausted.

Doran slowly move forward, "It's done. Now Solas will not find or harm you in the fade again. You can rest easy after all this sadness." Dorian smiled sadly as he put his arms around his dear friend. He looked over to the door to see Cassandra, Divine Victora aka their former spy master Lielana, looking in the doorway at their leader. "Ok now I need to change and rest up for the service. See you in a bit. When you get dressed, and Cullen and I will help you down to the funeral."

A few moments Dorian makes his way up behind Liliana Cullen and Cassandra "So is tell me because I am still not caught up on Fereldan, or Orliesean culture is it common for the Divine to lie to a heart broken girl, about the love of her life murdering one of their best friends, while the instigator of the crime is unknown." The teventier mage said trying to sound more chipper than sarcastic..

"Dorian, it had to be done. Solas is a threat to this world for the inquisitor to be romantically involved. We'd never be able to stop him with him. He would know where she is at all times what she is up to. Thought she would never willingly give him anything to aid him. . . It was not what I wanted, but we need her. Which means we had to break the ties. I do hate hurting her like this but there was no other way." Lileana said making her way down the hall for a moment out of her Divine outfit.

"In the end she will thank us, be able to move on and maybe even help us defeat him" Cullen chimed in with his silken voice..

"Oh please Cullen you just would like a shot at her yourself, Blackwall too. So don't give me that."

"Dorian will the spell work? Cassandra asked.

He stopped for a moment and looked at them "As long as her heart is blocked from him and she never learns the truth. . .Solas will never find her in the fade. The spell myself, Viviane, and Fiona wrote should keep him at bay, so what now make her hate her clan?"

"Once the funeral is over we will send her somewhere safe where no one can find her and cover her tracks. She needs time to heal and we need to find out who really did this." Cassandra replied.

"Yeah lets just hope she nor Solas ever find out what we've done it won't be pretty. . ." as his words trailed off Dorian turned and walked away.