[Dragon Age] Ring

The dharma circle in my memory is very quiet, but that kind of quietness is a by-product of the strong study and research atmosphere.Unlike now, the empty corridor and dim candlelight gave Karen the illusion of being in the tomb.Whether he went upstairs or downstairs, whether he went forward or back, he would eventually come back here, the floor where the apprentice classroom was located.

——The familiar nightmare made Karen's heart lift.He remembered the dream, and the scene that followed.

At that time, I had this dream because I was worried, but now?Karen didn't dare to think about why he was in the same dream again, let alone why the dream was so real this time, so real that when he ran in a panic, the lack of oxygen caused by exercise was so real. clear.

No matter how he walked, he would return to the end of this corridor.It seems that the magic circle has really become a circle, and Karen can't escape even if he tries his best.

He ran for a long time, and when he was out of breath and his legs were weak, he had to stop. He raised his head, and a person appeared in the distance of the corridor.

"No..." Karen closed her eyes in pain.He knew it was a dream, but why hadn't he woken up yet?

Emily turned her back to him, standing at the end of the corridor as if she had appeared out of thin air, still wearing a white dressing gown, still bare|bare feet.The long red hair hung down the back of her head, glaring like bright red blood, reminding Karen of what happened the last time he dreamed of this scene.

Wake up quickly, why haven't you woke up yet?

Karen didn't dare to move, but Emily turned her head.

"Karen." This time, there was no wound or blood on Emily's body, and a surprised expression appeared on her fair face, "What are you doing?"

She walked over, but the moment she took a step, Karen subconsciously grabbed the saber around her waist: "Don't come over!"

His nervous tone changed Emily's expression of confusion, and the young mage tilted his head, his face full of confusion: "What's wrong with you?"

"No...it's nothing." Karen took two steps back warily, and shouted loudly with a trembling voice, "Don't come here, devil!"

"A devil? What a devil?" Emily ignored his warning. She walked in front of Karen with light steps, and the confusion on her face turned into worry.She reached out and covered his trembling hand, "What happened, Karen?"

Endless pain hit her heart, and her fingers clenched Karen's hand holding the hilt of the sword. He wanted to draw the sword, but he couldn't exert any strength.

None of this was true, Karen knew full well.

"Stop torturing me." He choked up and said, "I won't be fooled, I won't..."

The Templar's sword was unsheathed, and Karen saw Emmel's jewel-like eyes suddenly widen. He raised the sword, and the cold blade shone with silver light. He had never felt that the hand holding the sword was so strong. Pass.

"You can't seduce me, devil!"

The sharp blade pierced through her slender body, and Emily's body froze suddenly, a large swath of red spread from her white dressing gown, Karen drew back the sword, and blood spurted out crazily.The young girl held his arms, her face was full of disbelief...and satisfaction.

A strong sense of suffocation blocked Karen's throat, and the throbbing pain in his heart almost turned into pleasure. middle.

"No..." Karen cried bitterly.

"Karen?"

"--Do not!"

Karen opened his eyes in horror, the dark room made him a little unclear about the situation for a while.But then he saw Emily's worried face in his field of vision, and the handsome face overlapped with the blood man in his dream, and he felt that unprecedented despair gripped his heart tightly.Karen pushed away Emily in front of him: "I won't be fooled! Stay away from me, devil! Creator!"

"Karen!!"

Emily, who was pushed away, rushed forward to try to comfort him. When the cold fingers touched Karen, he felt the familiar magic wave gathering under her skin.

"You can't..." Karen almost jumped up, and while decisively dispelling the magic on her body, she pressed Emily to the ground, "Who is allowed to impersonate her?!"

The sound of the armor hitting the ground was very clear in the darkness. The woman beneath her took a painful breath. Karen looked at her face and the silver heavy armor on her body...wait, heavy armor.

Karen closed her eyes, opened them, closed them again, and opened them again. Emily was still here, those green eyes gleaming with tears against the moonlight outside the window.

Mages in the Circle never wore heavy armor, and Emmel didn't when he left.

It was indeed her, he remembered.Half a day ago, the rebellion in the Circle of Law had just ended.

Yes, the mages have turned traitor.The once peaceful dharma ring instantly became a paradise for hatred and demons, and blood magic enveloped the entire dharma ring.His companions, the other Templars were all but dead, except for Karen, who was left alone.Those evil mages took pleasure in torturing him. In the spirit world, demons always appeared in the form of Emily to tempt him to seduce him. Karen didn't know how many times he killed her in the dream, he only knew how to go on like this He must be going crazy.

Then Emily actually came.

When she appeared in front of him wearing this heavy armor, Karen still thought she was transformed from a demon.Until she and her companions quickly ended the rebellion.

"You..." Karen let go of Emily's hands and said weakly, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Emily, who had regained her freedom, quickly got up, and she spoke nonchalantly, as if the tears on her face didn't exist at all: "You know why."

Yes, he knows.Emily loathes life in the Dharma Circle so much, besides herself, what reason can she have to stay here?But Karen would rather she leave without saying a word than to sneak into the medical room to visit her in the dead of night.He remembered the words he had yelled at her when he first regained consciousness, words that would pierce any mage's heart, even if it was because of the fear in his head at the time, but Karen knew those thoughts were true.

The malice, hatred and anger towards the mage are also true.

All such ugliness were caught in Emily's eyes.

Karen sat on the ground and looked at the mage in front of him.There was concern and sadness on her face, but no disgust.How Karen wished she could blame him and blame him for what she had done, at least it would make him forgive himself a little.

But she didn't, and of course she wouldn't.

"You should go."

He loves her, there is no doubt about it.Karen would do anything in the world to keep her brightest smile on, and he wanted her to be happy.And the way for Emily to get happiness is to leave the ring and stay away from herself.This rebellion made him realize how far the distance between the Templars and the mages was. The distance that he once ignored because of his crazy love lay in front of him and Emily like a gap.

"You shouldn't even come back." He stretched out his hand and wiped away Emily's tears with his thumb, "you hate it here don't you, after leaving the circle you should forget about it...forget about me. Now you are the Greyguard, you There should be a new life. I saw the warrior standing beside you willing to protect you, he—”

"—you're going to push me to someone else?"

Karen's words caught in his throat.

Emily's eyes flashed with anger, and the tears couldn't stop falling.She stared at Karen's face, and struggled to say the next sentence amidst sobbing and choking: "This is what you want, Karen? Let me leave you voluntarily and continue to live with peace of mind with such a clumsy reason." go down?"

Of course this is not what he wants!Creator, what He wants can never come true.The thought of her living a life without herself, the thought of her smiling at other men, made Karen jealous and unbearable, but so what?It is impossible for him to give up his responsibilities as a Templar, and Emmel will never be able to get rid of his identity as a mage. Years of suppressed emotions and hopes hit his chest, and Karen pulled her into his arms fiercely: "I I can't... I can't-"

Her kiss interrupted Karen's words.

When her lips covered his own, the vigorous emotion finally broke through his chest.

Ten years is enough to erase most memories, but Karen still remembers that night.

Different from the cautiousness and restraint of the first time, Karen could clearly feel the flames of anger burning between the skins of him and Emily, desire | madness entangled together, reaching At the top, Karen felt that his life would be exhausted by the end of this sonata.They lay on the bed, Emily's legs wrapped tightly around hers, panting, trembling, tracing his face with her soft fingertips.

They cuddled like this until dawn.

Karen didn't remember whether he had ever fallen asleep, he only remembered that in the end Emily pulled himself out of his embrace, and the sphenoid bone on the mage's clean back moved slightly in the early morning sunlight.

"Leave the Circle, Karen."

She didn't look back when she said this.

Even after experiencing Kirkwall's Holy Law War, even if he became the commander of the Inquisition, Karen still felt extremely painful when he recalled these words.He thought she meant to let him calm down in another environment, leave the dharma ring haunted by sweet and nightmares, and wait for her in a free place.

But he was wrong.

It wasn't until the news of Serona Emmel's death with the Great Demon reached Kirkwall that Karen realized that those words were Emmel's farewell to him.

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