ROGUE🖤 (Cole x OC! Lavellan) ✓ [COMPLETED]

Ch. 5 *It Is A Demon*

NALIA
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I walk down the stone steps of Skyhold.

Solas led us here, to a castle that's been lost. When we first arrived I gazed at everything.
"How was a place like this ever lost?" I ask myself, awing over everything. It's all a mess, and it'll take time to clean. But we have our stronghold to fight against Corypheus.

I walk past a solider. "Inquisitor," he says, nodding, before disappearing behind me.

The word still sends me into shock.

After we got settled, Cassandra led me to Leliana who was holding a sword. When I looked to my right, everyone was staring at me.

They needed a leader. And since I had the Templars ally with us, they chose me.

The Inquisition became mine. I am there Inquisitor, and the stress I felt just doubled in size.

I got half of Thedas to protect...and if I fail? Fingers would point at me. A blessing, and a curse, this title. But there's nothing I can do about it. I can only take a breath, think hard, and trust myself and my decisions.
Let's only hope that I'll do right for these people...

I walk across the ground, seeing an annoyed Vivienne discussing something with Solas, and Cole, sitting on the ground, picking at the dirt.

"This thing is not a stray puppy you can make into a pet. It has no business being here."

"Wouldn't you say the same of an Apostate?" Solas asks, the smart ass sinking in his voice.

Vivienne glares at him right when I approach them.

"What's going on?" I ask, before Cassandra turns to me.

"Inquisitor," she says, "I wondered if Cole was perhaps a Mage. Given his... unusual abilities."

"He can cause people to forget him, or even fail entirely to notice him. These are not the abilities of a Mage, it seems that Cole is a spirit," Solas points out. Me and him have already discussed this, and I've already decided to have him stay and help us. What's the point of this?

"It is a demon," Vivienne says with a hint of acid in her tone. She's glaring at Solas like she's ready to attack him for standing against her. Vivienne's always been sassy to those who don't agree with her.

Personally, she's a bitch to everyone. But she's smart.
We need some brains in this journey. We have enough brawn.

Solas shrugs. "If you prefer, although the truth is somewhat more complex."

I speak up. "Cole helped us expose Lord Seeker Lucius and defeat the Envy Demon. He's earned his place here."
I almost point out that he was the one who found me after the battle at Haven, but I bite my tongue.

People would think that I'm intentionally trying to defend him, when really, I'm trying to be as neutral as possible.

Vivienne laughs, a cold, soft laugh. "And what will it's help cost, my dear? How many lives will this demon later claim?"

"It's not a demon!" I want to shout at her, but Solas speaks before I can.
"In fact, his nature is not so easily defined..."

Cassandra sighs, annoyed and impatient. "Speak plainly, Solas. What are we dealing with?"

They make it sound like Cole isn't a being at all, that he's this problem that needs to be dealt with. Spirit or not, I trust him. He's shown to be loyal so far...why can't the others see it too?

"Demons normally enter this world by possessing something. In their true form, they look bizarre, monstrous," Solas says after a moment of silence. He's correct, and Lord Seeker Lucius is perfect proof of that.