I can't remember how long I cried but I could feel my eyes were puffy, shut up, Hawke. I stared at the ceiling, I wonder if he knows I'm missing. Varric and Fenris were to go on a run to kill some of the local slavers. Oh Maker, please, please let him know where I am. I miss him so much… I blinked away the last set of tears. We were to be married. To begin a new life. Full of happiness and joy, not death and destruction.
"Hello, darling." Quentin's voice came from across the room carrying some tools. "Have a good lunch break? I know I did." He set his things down on the blood stained table several feet in front of me and picked at Alessa's flesh. He took a scalpel to her arm and cut off a large portion of her forearm. "You haven't said much since you've arrived, darling Hawke."
I was taken, not invited, Quentin. If I had come here by my own accord, you would be dead and I would be home with my loving mabari and fiancé.
"Perhaps you'd like to say something?" He moved to Alessa's feet, precisely cutting between tendons of her toes to remove them. I gave him a cold stare as his eyes flashed to my neck. "Perhaps I should start on the last part," He dropped the scalpel and took a piece of cloth to my head, some sort of white see-through fabric it seemed. Quentin bit his lip, "Ahh, but I must finish this part first…" His voice trailed off and stared longingly at my neck before turning around to finish his business with Alessa.
"How well can you run, Hawke?" He continued stubbornly to fish through Alessa's arm. When I gave no response, he asked again.
"Fairly," I responded.
"Tonight I will give you some medication and I need you to take it. If you do not I will force it and you will be in much pain. I do not wish to hurt you but you must take this. Do you understand?" His eyes were full of emptiness but I slightly nodded.
"I, Marian Hawke, give you this silver ring for you to cherish for all our lives."
"I, Fenris, give you this silver ring for you to cherish for all of our lives."
"And I, Marian, place this gold ring on your hand to show you are mine. For all eternity. For life and death. Forever, my love shall we be together."
"I, Fenris, place this gold ring on your hand to show that you are mine. For in sickness and in health. For better and for worse. Forever, my love shall we be together."
"All right, guys! Now that they're hitched, let's get drunk and party!"
The celebration continued for two days, full of laughter, joy, and love. But once the act was over and Fenris and I were left together by the firelight, I gave myself to him, and he gave himself to me.
"Hawke, time to wake up, darling." Damn. Just a dream. I opened my eyes and only saw a shadow and some bright light. "Don't jerk around too much, everything is all right." I saw a scalpel come down to my neck ready to slide across my throat. All I could manage was a muffled scream inside my head.
WHY CAN'T I MOVE?!