what i am to you

Her ghosts only ever found her alone.

There was never any other tainted thing around to set her blood surging, no battle to distract her from the freefall. Even in a dream he pulled at her, the memory of his call drawing ever closer. Tamlen always found her like this. He could always cut her down so readily.

She had never been able to reject it before, to stand with her back to the remains of a former life and refuse it. All her nightmares had no right to do this, for all else they might call back from the Blight. She did not have to hear his mockery of a voice, walk into the knife her memories always became in the Fade. She need never walk alone again.

If the wolf could help her face darkspawn, he could show her a path out of this, too. It was his name that drowned out the old familiar endearment – Lethallan could not compare to Pride. 

Not yet. There was, admittedly, still time for Solas to force her hand as well. 

And he moved, silent as a shadow and quick as a river turning a bend. His shape-- that of a massive, black wolf, five eyes glowing in the murkiness of the dream, would soon eclipse all light and loom.

A low growl, deep and near feral, reverberated through him and through the ground around them, and the monster she faced would flee. Its shape wobbled and fell away as it did, revealing the demon that dared play such a cruel trick on the Dread Wolf’s favored. 

I am here, Aria, peace. 

His voice echoed as his growl had, everywhere around and intimate as if he were whispering in her ear. The house sized wolf laid down, curling around her, all five eyes open and trained on her. 

Don’t turn away  (don’t give into the pain)                  Don’t try to hide                   (though they’re screaming your name)                                     Don’t close your eyes                                      (God knows what lies behind them)

        Don’t turn out the lights (never sleep never die)

Me:

Send kissed! and my character will react to receiving this type of kiss from yours… (some NSFW apply!)

#1-65

(opposite of this meme)