Dragon Age Inquisition Short Stories

Stone Hearts

"Solas, please! Please no!" I cry. I step forward but he then takes a step back as if he is hurt... just like that night before we defeated Corypheus. That god awful night he told me to move on.

"Vhenan, you know I would never, never do anything to hurt you! Ever! But for the elves to rise once more. The men that rule this earth now must die. The elves will remain and relearn the old ways.

"You don't understand what I did to them. I hid them away, forever away, in the fade. I can now save them. I made a terrible decision all those years ago. I can fix it now!" He chants.

But I shake my head. "Solas." I walk forward until I'm less than one foot away from him. And I grab his hand and place it at my heart that is beating surprisingly normally. "Feel that? My heart is beating."

He looks down at the ground. If I can just make him see. "Solas, the humans have hearts like I do. Like you do. It doesn't have to be this way. Maybe it's time to move on. Those are past things. The Eluvian and Arlathan. The world has grown. It's been thousands of years. Maybe it's time to just forgive and forget. Live and let live. Please?"

He starts shaking his head. "You know I can't, my love." He looks up and I see his beautiful face covered in tears and his eyes red. He's shaking. "You can. You just refuse to see it." I caress his cheek, trying to invoke emotion in him, but to no avail.

"But listen to me now, vhenan. If you destroy this world, my world, I will not have a choice. Your threatening everything I've ever fought for and maybe our people would survive. But my real family like Varric and Dorian and Cassandra would die. Please! Please!"

I grab both his hands now. Looking straight into his eyes. "I would die knowing our people were the cause of their destruction! Especially for an unjust cause like this one!" I sob. There's no point in hiding it now. He's seen every part of me, knows me better than myself.

He kissed my hand and looked deep in my eyes. But it was not him. The eyes he looked at me with were distant and unfeeling. And then he leaned in very close. Close enough to whisper directly into my ear, "I'm sorry. Please find it in your gracious heart to forgive me, Vhenan."

But I was never ready for what he would do next. Never in a million years had I thought he would. Or could.

He looked into my eyes once more and I saw a single tear slip down his cheek. "I will never forget you."

Then a magical sheen graced his eye and it was over. The entire world went black.

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They discovered a stone Inquisitor and an Elven God sitting next to her not long after her demise.

Worrying companions ran up the crumbling steps to see their Inquisitor had fallen. Fallen in love. Fallen into a forever sleep.