[ 🕯️ ]ㅤ.ㅤwhat memory do they replay when they’re alone ?
headcanon questions ( accepting )
There is a fire, and he is warm. Not with heat, but a fullness. He had considered cold and its effects, a thinness of the air to chase in a tide, a change, a season. It felt strange to turn it away when before he did not, but this body is vulnerable. Fashioning clothes is the first of many corrections, but he is eager to learn them all. nearly feverish with possibility.
He studies the seams of Mythal's clothing by the firelight and begins to lay furs together.
She watches his growing understanding with a musing smile. ❛ You need not make it yourself. We have long since learned their design. Let me. ❜
❛ I would know for myself, if we are ever separated, ❜ he says.
❛ We will not be. Your loneliness would be mine. ❜ she promises, and Solas takes her at her word.
There is a fire, and he is warm. Not with heat, but a fullness. For once, they have a moment of peace, and food they need not ration. Tarasahl's connections established a decent supply of trade, meats and herbs and cheeses they could store for long enough. What came first through the Eluvians went to the refugees. The rest provided a small feast, held over a private flame.
Felassan tells a joke that has their shoulders knocking together. He cannot remember the words, but he remembers the shape of his friend at his side, and it is enough.
There is a fire, and he is warm. Not with heat, but a fullness. Varric pushes a heavy tankard into his hand and the effort for agreeability obliges him to drink. He's tasted this type of grain before, but the bitter taste still surprises him every time. In Arlathan, it was as mutable as a shift in emotion. Solas could drink an essence of spring day and taste newness and ripe fruit. He could drink a brew for yearning and sample a shade of cherry-red desire along with dark sweetness.
When he coughs after a beat, Varric laughs like it was predictable. ❛ It's good for the cold. Supposed to put hair on your chest, but, ❜ his hand flourishes in Solas' direction. ❛ You know. ❜
❛ You must encounter cold temperatures often, then. ❜
Dorian laughs with a shock, as if he's never heard Solas speak until then. The Inquisitor snickers while refilling a cup, and the sound of it reminds him of someone he deserves to forget.
Varric shrugs, affable, and scratches at the opening of his vests. The cold of Emprise du Lion doesn't seem to cut as deep for the moment. ❛ I'm built to last. ❜