Is that bad?

fandom: dragon age pairing: solas x nuala lavellan words: 3,225 tags: hurt/comfort, blood & injury, angst with a (hopeful) ending notes: major endgame spoilers for datv!!! this is my contribution to the solavellan fandom ahdjfgaf. set immediately post datv. please forgive any typos.

It is quieter than she expected. Grey, for as far as her eyes can see, rather than the sickly green that has haunted her for years. No wailing and torment and voices to drown him, her, them both, as Nuala had expected. Just a stone pathway, leading off into oblivion. Dead grass forgotten in the cracks. She takes a tentative step forward and mourns the lack of Solas’ body heat when he stays rooted to the spot.

The fade, as always, surprises her.

The rift seals behind them, taking with it what little colour it had reflected on the stones and leaving them in the closest thing to not-quite-darkness the fade can ever manage. She shakes herself from waiting for that tell-tale hiss and rush of air that had always followed the sealing of a rift, reminds herself that she is not ten years ago when a simple flick of her wrist could solve all their problems. Her hand - the one she left rotting on the stones of the Crossroads - can’t save them anymore.

It’s been so long.