[Dragon Age] Ring

Karen didn't know how he got to the door of the war room.His mind went blank after his soldiers mentioned the word "Hero of Ferelden". When he came back to his senses, he could vaguely hear the voice inside.

He opened the door tremblingly, and the first thing he saw was Morrigan's angry back. The unfathomable court witch sounded like she was humiliated: "You rejected the proposal of the dark ritual, you can't kill The Great Demon Empress is still alive!"

"I stand before you now, Morrigan."

When the familiar, gentle voice sounded, Karen almost forgot how to breathe.

"Who knows if you're real, Greyguard?" Morrigan half-sarcastically said, "Maybe you're just a puppet of Flamus, maybe a plot she used to deceive everyone."

Creator, is she real?

The woman standing in front of Morrigan was not angry because of the witch's questioning. She shook her head helplessly, and looked over Morrigan's shoulder to meet Karen's.

That's Emily.

Ten years, ten years.Ten years have turned the former Templar Karen into the current commander Karen, but the ten years have not forgotten the Amel in Karen's heart-he can move forward, but he can't let go of the past. she.In the past ten years, Karen has seen her in every nightmare. Before the farewell, Emily's back almost became the shadow of his life.He thought he would carry this back forever, and then today, now, he saw her again, the real her.

Solona Emmel stood in the war room of the trial court, her long red curly hair scattered to the side of the dark blue light armor, her green eyes widened unbelievably when she saw herself, and then a pale expression appeared on her pale face. A gentle smile.Emily nodded to Karen: "Long time no see, Karen."

The once young and shy self is now standing, but Emily standing in the war room is exactly the same as Karen remembers, as if time has kindly let her go and gave her the privilege of retaining her youth.

That was indeed Emily.

Karen suddenly didn't know how to answer.His first reaction was to raise his hand to touch his neck: "I—"

"—Androst bless!!!"

Just when Karen was about to say something, a hand reached out from behind and pushed him away vigorously.After staggering a few steps, he stabilized his figure in embarrassment. He saw Leiliana running in front of Emmel. The always unpredictable master spy had no time to care about his own image. She seemed to follow Emmel back to the ten Hugging her tightly like years ago, he choked up and said, "O Creator, you are still alive!"

"That's the problem." Morrigan looked more guarded than Reliana, "We buried her with our own hands, there's no way she's still alive!"

"I think Gray Guard will explain everything in person." In this reunion scene of old acquaintances, the judge Lovelan couldn't help but speak.As the only person present who did not experience the plague, her face was full of confusion and excitement. She looked at Emily curiously, "You will, right?"

"Yes, Judge." Karen affirmed after hearing Emily who was freed from Leiliana's embrace, "I will tell you everything I know."

"Then explain how you got out of the grave, Greyguard," Morrigan said bluntly.

Yes, Karen wanted an explanation too.Although Karen did not attend her funeral, the news of her death spread throughout the entire continent. Unless the Creator intervened, how could a person who had been buried alive reappear in front of others...him?

Emily smiled helplessly. She looked around the room, and finally her eyes fell on Laflan: "You know, judge. The great demon is almost immortal. Even if the body is destroyed, its soul It will also attach to the nearest darkin. Only the Grayguard can kill the archdemon."

"Yes, I know." Laflan nodded, "Because the gray guard is half darkborn. When the gray guard is killed, the soul of the great demon will be attached to the gray guard. The soul of the gray guard and the soul of the great demon Souls collide, so the Greyguard will die with the Archdemon..."

That's how Emily died...or in other words, that's how she should have died.

In the stories Karen heard, as the Gray Guard, she beheaded the great demon with her own hands, and then died because of it.

"But there is always a way to avoid casualties." Emmel added, "Just prevent the soul of the great demon from destroying the soul of the Gray Guard. Morrigan once mentioned a way."

"But you refused." Morrigan said, frowning. "How on earth did you survive?"

Emily didn't answer right away.

There was a complicated look on Huiwei's face, with a little pain that could be discerned by the naked eye. Emily raised her eyes. Karen once thought she was going to look at him, but she didn't. Those green eyes were Halfway it turned and landed on Morrigan.

She took a deep breath: "I was pregnant at the time."

……what did she say?

"What—" Morrigan's eyes widened in shock.

"This... this is impossible!" Leliana almost screamed, the spymaster of the Inquisition Court probably hadn't lost her composure before.During the journey to stop the plague, the spy master who had the best relationship with Emmel said in disbelief, "During the journey, you kept a distance from all men. I can see that you have no chance at all!"

"I have." Emily looked at her best friend and said calmly, "When you follow me back to the ring."

——When returning to the Dharma Circle.

The moment her words fell, the eyes of all the women in the war room turned to Karen at the same time.

"I heard that the Gray Guard is difficult to conceive." Morrigan glanced at Karen with an inexplicable look, and continued, "But what does it have to do with your survival?"

Karen's mind went blank when she said those words. He stared dumbfounded at the still young Gray Guard. A gloomy expression appeared on the face that always had a warm smile in Karen's memory. look.

She took a deep breath: "The fetus is infected by my blood."

The atmosphere in the war room was momentarily tense and unbearable.

"It's still in my womb, but it's already half a darkborn like me." Emily raised the corners of her mouth sadly, "It's the one who died, not me."

After she finished speaking, she paused, and her fingers touched her belly unconsciously: "To be precise, I was indeed dead at the time, but my soul was still there. Flamas dug me out of the grave, and it was not long before I died." I just woke up a few days ago... Fortunately, you didn't cremate my body, otherwise, even Androst would not be able to save me if he was alive."

Even though the expression on her face was so sad, Emily still put on a relaxed tone when she said the last sentence, but everyone present couldn't laugh.

"But after leaving the Dharma Circle for so long, none of us noticed anything unusual about you." Leiliana said with a frown.

Emily smiled at her old friend: "Do you still remember Connor, Earl Chiya's son who was tempted by the devil? I entered his dream. At that time, I didn't know that I was pregnant. It was the succubus told me."

What Gray Guard said next, bit into Karen's heart word by word like a knife blade.

"I let it go, and the price is... to hide all the signs of pregnancy for me." When she said these words, her tone was calm, as if she was telling someone else's story, "I know a little medical magic, and then As long as Winnie doesn't heal me."

"At that time, you silently decided to take the child to die with you." Morrigan answered in a low voice, and the anger was clearly visible on the court witch's face again, "So you refused A dark ritual, hidden from all of us."

"I'm sorry, Morrigan."

"What are you sorry for?" Morrigan sneered a few times, "Say sorry to the child you lost, Gray Guard."

"Do you think I should give birth to it? Then watch it die from infection, or watch it be imprisoned in the Ring?" Emmel was not angry at Morrigan's taunt, but her tone became flat and Bing Leng, "I originally wanted to die with it. If I knew that the ring would be abolished ten years later, I would die thousands of times in exchange for its life."

Karen finally catches that breath.

Not to mention myself ten years ago, even Karen now has never imagined this possibility.An unreal realization hit his mind. Karen knew that there were only two gray guards left in Ferelden at that time, and she needed to run around for the alliance. Danger was everywhere, and under such circumstances, She said she had a child, his child.

All along, Karen knew that Emily carried more things than he imagined.She is always thinking about many things, and becoming a Gray Guard is even more terrifying responsibility.But he never expected that there would be so many. Ten years ago, Emily had just officially become a mage. She was still very young, so young that she was definitely not ready to be a mother.

"you……"

Karen, who hadn't had time to speak since entering the war room, finally remembered how to use his mouth.

"...Why didn't you tell me?" Karen's voice trembled unconsciously, he clenched the hilt of his sword tightly, and asked sadly, "Even I am not qualified...to know about this?"

Emily's gaze, which had been resting on him, averted.

"So what if I tell you, Karen?" she replied softly. "What are you going to do? And... I can't drag you down."

He can't do anything.Emily knows this very well. As a lover, Karen should protect her and give her happiness, but in fact he has never done anything for Emel.He didn't protect her...even their child.

Yes, he can't do anything.

Karen was speechless at her words.

"...This is already a thing of the past." However, Emily did not intend to discuss this matter in front of everyone, and her eyes finally stayed on the judge, "The most important thing right now is to defeat Ko Rifels, this is also the purpose of my arrival here, judge. I have fought against the great demon before, and perhaps this experience can also be used against demigods. If you need me, please ask me."

Karen watched Judge Lovelan promise Emily's words, watched Leiliana hold her hand, and dragged her out of the war room with tears in her eyes.Since her death, the long-lost pain of hope reappeared, bombarding his heart, depriving him of all words and courage.

In the end, he was the only one left in the war room.

He closed his eyes in pain, and what made him sad was not the fact that Emily told.

But Karen knew that Emily wouldn't blame him for it.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't blame himself.

The author has something to say: Fiona mentioned in "The Ritual of Calling" that the children of the Gray Guards are usually given away.I think this way, if the mother is a gray guard, the fetus will definitely be infected by the mother through the placenta_(:з」∠)_Although 囧A is not infected, there is a possibility of infection... and the big devil needs to be with someone who has The "dark descendant" of the soul died together. If Emily was pregnant and the fetus was infected at that time, it was actually the child of the gray guard who died together with the great devil.

As for the timing of pregnancy... get rid of the wild elves and Ozma first, and then go to the ring, from the ring to the big devil, if the speed is fast enough, maybe four months will be enough...?I think Ozma is the one that wastes the most time. The other main lines feel that the time is quite short.

Anyway, I just scraped together a HE, don’t think too much about details and bugs, I can’t stand it if I think too much