Borderless

Darkness

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Siri was still in a bit of shock with her near death experience .
If Aragorn , Solas , Legolas and Boromir hadn't fought to save her and Frodo from the ugly tentacled creature they would have been dead as sure as day .

She was too disorientated to try hacking at the tentacles herself . Her eyes was on the mouth that was about to swallow them whole when she was suddenly free and Solas caught her when she was free falling .

They had then ran back into the mines and the creature  slammed the doors shut behind them with  a rage tantrum.

Now they were destined to walk through a dark mine with danger lurking in every corner .

She was walking beside  Varric her eyes on the little light from Gandalf's staff . It was a beacon ,but to her it wasn't enough and she had to fight the urge to use the spell Magelight  .

They rested at some points as they walked .  It felt like ages being stuck down inside this large ruin .  Siri wasn't sure she had ever walked through a tomb  this large . It felt strange .

Hours later they rested at a crossroads of some sorts while Gandalf were contemplating which way is the best way for them to go . Solas sat next to Siri
again holding her hand .

She played with his fingers wondering why she felt so attracted to him . He was oblivious of her feelings though since even if he held her hand from time to time he was still just her friend . She didn't blame him for shoving her into that rift when she wanted to leave Thedas  ,he had done it to help her . She would not have had the courage to leave .

The sounds of a battle suddenly could be heard coming from one way . Siri jumped to her feet as she heard a ferocious roar . A roar that sounded familiar .

" Varric , doesn't that sound like Bull?", she asks . Varric frowns as he listens before he speeds of that way and not wanting to be left behind Siri follows him .

The road is full of stairs and turns and running seems actually stupid in the dark so Siri decides to use her Magelight so she could see where she was going .

When the little ball of light appeared as she cast it she had to blink at its  sudden brightness  after the long darkness ,until her eyes adjusted .

She comes to a huge hall with pillars . She halts for a moment before chasing after Varric again and find ugly looking creatures fighting a horned Quinari with a helmet that hides his face ,but Siri didn't need to know who is under that helmet because that helmet she'll always remember as Dread ,Iron Bull's helmet .

Summoning a flame spell in one hand and unsheathing her sword Siri   decides to help him fight the ugly creatures . Varric has already his crossbow aimed at them .

They don't fight long when Gandalf and the rest of the fellowship arrives to help too . 

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" Bull ,how did you end up in here ?", Siri asks as she bends down to collect Varric's crossbow bolts for him while he sits still  letting Solas tend to a wound he had gotten from a goblin dagger . 

Pulling off his helmet he wipes his head dry from sweat that had formed .

" It's kinda weird , Siri, I was investigating something for the Boss  when I came across a blue rift and yeah I thought it wasn't dangerous so I touched it "he says ignoring the shocked stares he gets from everyone else who doesn't know him .  He even ignores how four of them holds the sheaths of their swords .

" Looks like we were all stupid enough to touch it ", Varric says flinching as Solas rubs a salve on some scratches he got while fighting .

Glaring at him Siri says exasperatedly  " Excuse me ,Shorty , but I didn't touch it right away I first went all over Skyrim to say goodbye and then went back to do so ,I learned from my first mistake even if this rift was blue and not green "