"I need only moments more!" Alex heard Corypheus say, and she looked up to see that the hole in the Breach was getting bigger than it used to be, and she ran up faster.

"The Breach is getting bigger!" She exclaimed as they ran, and Cassandra raised her shield again, "It will endanger the world! We must stop this!"

She and Cassandra charged again, hitting the magister, and she could see that he was getting weaker, and that the foci was reacting strangely. She could also see several of Varric's bolts across him body, and he bled where her Spirit Blade and Cassandra's sword had cut him.

Corypheus' eyes glowed red and he threw out his arms, his power flaring, and knocking them back to the ground. Alex grunted at the impact, and she could see Cassandra pulling Solas and Varric up. She growled as she stood up from the ground, and she saw Corypheus struggling against the orb's power.

"Not like this!" Corypheus shouted as he tried to control the orb, now sparkling red against his hand, "I have walked the halls of the Golden City, crossed the ages…"

Alex sneered as she went towards the magister, her hand flaring green as the Mark glowed with power, "Dumat! Ancient ones! I beseech you!" Corypheus cried out at the orb as he desperately grasped it. She raised her hand, the mark glowing, and Alex saw that the orb seemed to reacting to her power as the magister raised his hand to cast a spell against her, "If you existed… if you ever truly existed… aid me now!"

But Alex shouted as her mark flared, and a small explosion made Corypheus fall into his knees as the orb flew towards her hand, now glowing green with their combined power. She raised her hands towards the sky, closing the rift as she had always done, and the orb's magic provided her enough power to close it permanently, healing the sky with swirling clouds and greenish haze. She breathed as she lowered her hand and the orb, now completely depleted of its power, and she glared at Corypheus, who was now looking at her with fear.

"You wanted into the Fade?!" Alex snarled at Corypheus as he pitifully tried to fight against her, and she held out her hand towards his face. The magister twitched and twisted painfully as the mark glowed, and she watched as a green light seemed to glow from within Corypheus, making him cry out, as a rift seemed to open inside him, consuming him from the inside out until nothing was left of him, and the magister disappeared into nothing in a puff of greenish smoke. Alex breathed as she lowered her hand, "And stay in there, asshole." She whispered in exhaustion.

But without Corypheus and the orb's magic, the temple began to crumble into pieces, slowly but surely falling back to the ground. Alex pulled at Solas to stand to make him run, as gigantic boulders seem to fall on them. Cassandra had held on to Varric and had pushed him towards a support beam, clinging on for dear life, but as the floor crumbled as it met the ground, they were knocked back, and Alex lost sight of them amidst the dust and debris. Solas cried out in alarm and she turned towards him, just a rock the size of a fist flew towards her, hitting her on the temple, and everything faded into darkness as she fell to the floor.

Alex flinched as she awoke, hearing footsteps. She gingerly stood up, shaking her head to clear her vision. Her eyesight was blurry, and she looked around to see someone bald bending over what seemed to be the orb, now lying in pieces now that its power is utterly consumed.

"Solas?" She whispered, and her vision refocused as the elf continued to sorrowfully look down at the artifact in his hands.

"The orb…" Solas lamented, touching the pieces so sadly that her heart went out to him. "Are you sure?" She asked him, hoping to console him, "We could take the pieces, try to…"

"That would not recover what has been lost." He said as he lowered the broken pieces and stood up, turning to look at her. The look on his face seemed so guilty… so sad, that immediately Alex knew what the voices from the well had meant. Harellan… she thought, trickster… he's hiding something. He always had…

"There's more, isn't there?" She asked, and he looked at her sadly as he drew near, until they were almost face to face, and she saw the melancholy in his eyes as he shook his head, "It was not supposed to happen this way." He said sadly and he reached out, enveloping her in an embrace, making her blink in shock. "Solas?"

"Ma serranas, ma falon." The elf said, and he breathed as if he was savoring the lavender scent of her, "You have shown me so much. Your kindness, your compassion… there is nothing in this world like it, and I am thankful to have met you. No matter what comes…I want you to know you shall always have my respect… and perhaps even my love." And Alex felt him move his face, and she felt his lips press against her temple in a small loving kiss, "Cullen… is a lucky man to have you… when I could not."

Alex blinked as Solas drew away from him, letting her go and backing away, and she understood. "You're… leaving me, aren't you?"

"Ar lath ma, falon… vhenan…" He whispered as he continued to walk backwards, looking at her with longing and sadness, as she remained standing, "Ir abelas… ir abelas ma harel…ma nuvenin ghilas… vallem dareth shiral, ma vhenan."

Alex blinked as the man continued to walk away, and she panicked, trying to run towards him but he was already a distance away, "Solas!"

"Inquisitor! Are you alive?"

She turned around to look at a staircase that led down, hearing Cassandra's voice, and as she turned to look at Solas again, she blinked when she saw that the elf was already gone, disappearing without a trace. Her heart twisted in sadness, but she took a deep breath, before turning towards the stairs.

As she headed down, she saw all of her Inner Circle gathering. Daylen had Cassandra in his arms, and they looked a little worse for wear. At the sight of her alive and smiling, Maxwell, Sera and Dorian let out a whoop of joy and rushed up the stairs, capturing her in a tangle of limbs and hugs.

"You're alive!" Dorian cried out in relief as he hugged her, "And I'm alive! Incredible, isn't it?!"

"Scared us half to dead, Inky!" Sera said as she bent down and hugged her legs, as the two men were preoccupied with embracing the upper half of her torso.

Maxwell released her a bit and kissed her forehead, looking visibly relieved, "Thank the Maker you're alive, sister!"

"If you guys hugged me any tighter, I probably won't be!" She said, but she was laughing in relief as well, tears forming in her eyes at the sight of all her friends. But she shrieked when she was bodily lifted to the air under her armpits, her legs dangling uselessly as Bull charged in their hug puddle, lifting her up and spinning her in a circle like toddler before hugging her to his chest.

"Boss! You're alive! And you killed that Corypheus asshole!" Bull bellowed out as his arms tightened around her, making her cough at the pressure.

"Bull! Can't breathe!" Alex cried out in pain, and the Qunari laughed hard again before lowering her down, and she caught her breath just as Blackwall and Varric came near and gave her a hug as well, with the taller man gently squeezing his arms around her shoulders, while the dwarf's arms encompassed her waist.

"Killed him? Kicked his arse, you mean." Blackwall said as he grinned down at her, "I'm just thankful you survived, my lady."

"Yeah. This ought to be good for my next book, I'm sure." Varric said as they separated, "Heroes who survived the impossible make for the best tales."

Daylen laughed from behind them as he continued to carry Cassandra in his arms, "You can turn it into a trilogy, Varric. 'This Shit Is Weird: The Story of Inquisitor Trevelyan and the Bloodline of Amell'... Cassandra would read the shit out of that, I'm sure."

Cassandra smacked Daylen at his chest, and Alex laughed as she came near them and hugged them both, and the Seeker flashed her one of her rare and genuine smiles. "What happened, Cassandra?" She asked as she gently held her hand.

"I sprained my ankle trying to save that dwarf, Inquisitor." Cassandra said, pointed staring at the dwarf, who scoffed a little. "I already said my thanks, Seeker. Besides, Daylen already healed you. Why do you insist on getting carried by him?"

Daylen grinned down at Cassandra, "Because I want to. She's not as heavy as you might think, Varric." He laughed when the Seeker smacked him on the chest again, "Besides, I know she likes it when I carry her around."

Cassandra blushed in the man's arms, "I do… actually."

Vivienne smiled regally at her, bending over and giving her a light kiss on her cheek, "Then it's over? How lovely."

Cole smiled up at her before looking up at the sky, and Alex followed his gaze, seeing greenish, beautiful lights amongst the clouds, where the Breach used to be. It looks amazing, and more importantly, non-threatening that she couldn't help but sigh in relief at the beauty of it, "And the sky is healed, healthy… whole. There's just that left to remember." He said, and she grinned as she went over to the boy and put her arm around his waist, and he returned her affection by putting an arm around her shoulder as they looked at the sky. "It looks that way."

Cassandra smiled up at the sky as well, before turning to look at her, "What do we do now?"

Alex silenced as she pondered the question, before looking up the stairs, where she had spoken to Solas, and where the broken shards of the orb were. With Corypheus dead, the Breach was closed, but she there are still several Rifts present in the world, as well as the disputes that had torn their world apart. No… she thought as she looked at her friends, There's much more things to do.

She looked at them all and gave them a bright smile, "We go back to Skyhold." And she reached up at her neck, feeling the small pendant that held Cullen's coin, her heart bursting with emotion.

"We go back home."