With Me Always: A Dragon Age Tale (Dragon Age Inquisition)

Chapter 20

"Your child...me...I held little power as an infant compared to now. What you witnessed was simply me channeling my powers through you. I was suddenly in a world filled with elves and my powers sort of...came back to life? I was watching from the window, I wanted so badly to just...run up to you like a lost child... but I suppose that's what I am." Mirianna cried. "So it was my baby that saved us that day...just an older version?...from the future?" Haylie asked, still taking it all in.
"Yes" Mirianna said simply.
"And now you've gone and created a time loop!" Javaris said frustrated.
"What?" Haylie choked.
"Mirianna was never supposed to be at Skyhold that day, and thus, this reality is crumbling, and we are all stuck in it" Javaris explained. "Stuck? Can't you simply open another portal back?" Cassandra asked.
"No. You see when Mirianna left, my link to her power was severely damaged, I used all I had left to return her here, and even that was done incorrectly. Hence your presence here." He explained. "Why can't Mirianna do it herself then?" Cassandra asked. "Mirianna's power is drawn from the elves, there are no more left here besides the three of us and the few that managed to stay out of the war with the humans. Her power here is waning, a situation I thought necessary so that she would not be able to eradicate Elvenkind completely, now will be the downfall of us all." Javaris explained. "Wait, so you're telling me you sent all of those elves to their deaths...on purpose?!" Mirianna asked, her face full of shock. "It was the only way I could preserve our race, by the time you would grow old and die the elves would start to replenish and you could live your life in peace! If I let your power grow it would destroy us all! When the Order began, we wanted to take back our lineage, become what we once were... but the goal has changed. We have to keep your power under control or you will get yourself killed along with every living elf in which your power is rooted."
"So your solution is to send the elven people, OUR people, to their deaths?! How is that better?" Mirianna yelled. "You could've just killed me instead! Why didn't you?" tears began to stream down her face.
"So much power...but so good, so pure. She has eyes like my daughter. I cannot bear it." Cole mused.
"I-I was meant to. When they discovered your power couldn't be contained by any normal method the former leader Endariel ordered me to take your life, I couldn't do it... I loved you as a daughter, I'd lost my own...killed by templars. I did what I had to do..." Javaris admitted.
"You killed Endariel to protect me?" Mirianna softened a bit. "I mean no harm to the elves. I never have, whatever this prophecy says about me is wrong!" Mirianna sobbed.
"I wish I could know this to be true...but I cannot risk the consequences if I were wrong Mirianna! It was this or extinction...and I did what had to be done. Your power is linked to every living elvhen! The damage power like that could cause would be catastrophic! But none of it matters if this entire reality is coming down around us!" Javaris exclaimed, a touch of fear in his voice.
"It is because of you that we are forced to turn to dark magic at all! If you weren't so afraid of this prophesy...you have all but caused our extinction trying to avoid that very thing!" Mirianna spat
Dorian held a half conscious Haylie in his arms. "Is there anything at all to be done?" He asked. Before Javaris could answer Haylie let out a cry of pain. "Inquisitior?!" Cassandra exclaimed. "We need to get her someplace safer than this wretched place!" Dorian said sternly. "Our fortress is close by, she will be safer there.  My mages are researching a solution to this time loop, and we can get a healer for you, Haylie." Javaris said, holding a hand out to her. She took it, seeing no better option. But as Dorian and Javaris helped her to stand, she gasped. "Haylie?!" Dorian cried. "My water just broke..." Haylie said.