[Dragon Age] Under Six Feet

Marek came out of the dark, bruised and bloodied, and as he approached, Logan noticed he wasn't alone.In his arms lay an elf girl in a dilapidated wedding dress, her face was covered by long messy and dirty hair, Logan couldn't see clearly in the dark, but he wanted to know that it was Kelly install.

demon.

Logan thought in his heart.He should draw his sword to meet each other, but when he clenched the hilt of the sword, "Marek"'s blue eyes instantly moved to his waist.

"You want to kill me."

said the dead king with a smile.

"It's like killing my son."

At that moment, his sword seemed to be growing in the scabbard, as heavy as a thousand pieces of gold.When he came back to his senses, Marek had already walked in front of him.

"You killed Kailan, didn't you?"

The darkness behind him gradually faded, and Logan felt his vision gradually return, but what appeared in front of him was not the hall of Military Peak but the scorched earth that seemed to have no end.Marek held Kellyanne's body in his arms, and knelt down on the ground very slowly and carefully.

Kailan's body was at his feet, his armor twisted and festered, like his face beneath his blond hair.

"Destroyed my Feriden too."

Logan looked further into the distance, and there was a mountain of corpses piled up, polluting the ground with blood.The banner of House Serling was ground into the dirt like a rag.Crying, screaming, roaring, and the sound of knives and halberds cutting into flesh were mixed together, which only made Logan, who had fought on the battlefield all his life, feel weak in his legs for no reason.

"It even sent the mainland into the hands of the big devil."

Like a ghost, Logan also knelt down.

In the shadows where the line of sight could barely reach, countless darkborns opened their eyes, as if they were in Ostagar or Dunrym in the final battle.

"Everyone you love dies because of you."

There seemed to be ice on his shoulders, and Logan's heart skipped a beat. He turned his head and looked at his father's tearful face in shock.No, not only the father, but also the mother, as well as his wife and Anola, they struggled and cried, sinking inch by inch into the ground, Logan reached out to grab them, but he found himself Also unable to move.

"Everything you touch is destroyed."

Marek raised his hand.

He sent Kellyanne's body into Logan's arms, his movements were as gentle as offering the most precious treasure in the world.With his movements, the white hair that covered her face spread out, and the pale face was covered with rotten wounds infected by darkin blood.

"What more do you want to destroy, my friend?"

The former king asked kindly.

Logan opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.He stared at Marek's bloody face, then looked down and saw that Kellyanne's closed eyes had opened at some point.

Those piercing eyes were as usual.

She held Logan's arm in her hand, and the joints were so cold and stiff that she didn't look like a living person.Kellyanne stared at Logan steadfastly, red tears ran across her dilapidated face, she opened her mouth, her shrill voice almost pierced through the entire night sky: "——what else do you want to destroy, Logan?!"

Logan's brain almost stopped spinning.

Countless memories pressed in the bottom of my heart came to my heart at the same time. At this moment, the warrior who had experienced many battles tasted emotions that had not appeared in his mouth for a long time.

That is fear.

He wanted to say something, what he wanted to do, even though facing Marek's scorching gaze, he only felt heavy pressure, even the delicate body of the girl in his arms was extremely heavy.He has to do something, he is not the real Marek, Marek has been buried in the bottom of the sea long ago, and even his body has not been recovered.

Even if tens of thousands of lives are ruined by his own hands, since he is still alive, he has to go on.The taste of fear in his mouth was bitter and almost nauseating, but Logan held back, he closed his eyes, not daring to look at the man in front of him again.

"Marek."

The king's phantom moved, and his face showed a look of concern, as if it were real: "What, my friend?"

Logan shook off Kellyanne's grip on his hand, and drew his sword.

"I'm very sorry."

——The next moment, just as his blade swung towards Marek's neck, a sharp dagger stabbed Marek's chest first.

When the demon's head fell to the ground, it was Kellyanne's clean face that appeared in front of Logan.

The body in his arms was instantly reduced to ashes.And the female elf in front of her was intact but full of tears, with uncontrollable anger and pain in her blade-like eyes.She stood up, trying to maintain a calm expression, but Logan had never seen her fail like this before.

"Open your eyes, Logan."

she said tremblingly.

"Back to reality."

Then Logan opened his eyes, and the purgatory-like scene disappeared in an instant, and the ceiling of the military peak hall came into view.He got up from the ground, just in time to meet Kellyanne's eyes, Hui Wei's face was full of tears that had not been wiped away, she patted the dust on her body, and there was an indistinct cry in her voice : "Come on, leave this hall first."

After that the whole thing took a turn for the worse.

They found Sophia Dryden, whose body had been occupied by demons, and Avernas, who used blood magic to renew his life, and then strengthened the veil of the entire military peak, making the haunted fortress from countless Saved from the nightmare accumulated generations ago.

But after everything was over, no one felt a sense of accomplishment.

Sitting in the completely safe room of Military Peak, Logan couldn't close his eyes no matter what.Choosing to rest here was a wrong decision. He didn't believe that Kellyanne could sleep here with peace of mind, but it was getting late, and staying here was the only choice.

It was as quiet as if there were no living creatures in the world.

Eventually Logan turned to his feet.

He left the dead room.The military peak, which has been abandoned for many years, is shrouded in night, and the excessive tranquility has long been melted into every square inch of the air.Logan was walking in the empty corridor, the only thing that could remind him that this was still real was the wandering echo step by step.The disappearance of all the demons does not mean that the place can return to its former vitality. He pushed open the door next to him, and even though Kellyanne's real back came into view, it did not bring much breath of life to the empty room.

He saw her tense her arms at the sound of footsteps, but didn't turn her head.

"Kelian?"

"..."

The usually straightforward Gray Guard suddenly treated each other with silence, and Logan felt a little uncomfortable.He walked behind Kellyanne and put his hand around her shoulder.

She is still angry.

Kellyanne Tubbis is not one to hide her emotions, she never does.This was the first time Logan saw Gray Guard's forbearance expression, and when she met his gaze, Kellyanne was still clenching her teeth, never relaxing.

When she woke up from Shadow Realm, there were tears on her face.

It doesn't make sense that she was the only one who saw the hallucination, and it was impossible for her to shed tears for Marek.Logan looked at Kellyanne silently for a while, then sat on the edge of the bed, next to Kellyanne's shoulder: "What did you see?"

As Logan turned his head, he noticed that her hands were trembling. It took a long time for the question to return to Kellyanne's response. The elf answered irrelevantly: "I'm not afraid."

If you are not afraid, how can you be so eager to deny it?Kellyanne seemed to realize this herself, and she hung her head in frustration and buried her cheek in her hands: "No, I'm not afraid."

"Kelian—"

"—You go out, I want to be alone for a while."

Logan pulled the elf up.

Maybe it was restlessness, maybe it was unexpected, Kellyanne didn't expect Logan to make such a move at all, she was forced to raise her head, a flash of surprise mixed with anger flashed across her face, and everything was in consciousness. After arriving at Logan's intention, it was fixed as a guard.

"What did you see?" Logan asked again in a low voice.

She was silent for a long time, until the guard on her face slowly melted away, and finally disappeared.

"I saw Earl Dunrham's castle." Her words almost spit out through her teeth, "That bastard pinned Shani to the ground, he raped her in front of me, and then laughed I'm powerless to kill her, and I really can't do anything, I can only watch and watch."

The last few words were so ferocious that Logan almost couldn't hear them clearly.

"Do you know what it feels like? His hands held me down, forcing his head up, watching him tear Shani's clothes, watching him slit her throat. I wanted to break free, exhausted all my strength Strength, but nothing works. I want to close my eyes, I want to kill him again, but I can't, I can't do anything, I can only watch, you know that feeling?"

——Accompanied by her words, the memory was almost like a tsunami. For a moment, Logan thought that the damned demon was still hiding in the shadow of Military Peak.He clenched his fist where Kellyanne wasn't looking, and took a deep breath.

"I know how it feels."

"No, you don't know, that incompetent and crazy feeling, I—"

"—I know." Logan interrupted her coldly, "That's how my mother died."

She was stunned.

No one spoke for a long time, and all of Kellyanne's emotions disappeared in an instant. She looked at him, as if she didn't understand his words, or as if she understood but didn't know what to say.Gradually, the disappearing things returned to her face bit by bit. There were confusion, surprise, and even bewilderment. Many emotions were mixed together and condensed into emotions that even Logan could not distinguish.

"your mother."

she repeated.

"Yes."

Kellyanne opened her mouth, but seemed afraid to speak again.She hesitated back and forth for a moment, and finally asked, "You at that time... what was your reaction?"

She said she was so pissed off when she killed the earl's son that in retrospect she didn't think it was her own doing.The same was true for him when he was young, the crazy flames almost burned his flesh and blood, now looking back on the past, Logan can only experience a feeling similar to that of a bystander - he can often dream about things in the past, and what happened to his mother naturally Yes, but today Logan basically no longer feels pain.He knew what he felt at that time, and he still remembered that feeling, but he could never really feel it again.

"I passed out like a coward."

Kellyanne's breathing slowly calmed down in response to him.She bit her lower lip, thought for a moment, and then shook her head: "No, you drove all the Ole people out of Fereden, you are not a coward."

He looked at her coldly, and before she could speak, she understood Logan's intentions; "I know, I can't do anything, I killed that bastard, and Shani is still alive, but... "

But what the devil shows them is still the heart that is least willing to admit its existence.

In fact, she was afraid of the same thing as herself, Logan thought silently, that is "not being able to do it"-there is nothing more terrifying than the word powerless for those who sacrifice their lives for tomorrow.

"I saw your vision."

As soon as she changed the subject, she suddenly softened a lot, almost whispering.If it wasn't too quiet in the room, Logan might have missed her words.

The light-colored eyes are close at hand, when did he and the gray guard reach the point where they could keep such a close distance to talk?Complicated emotions still flowed in her pupils, but a somewhat obscure and indescribable light was added at inadvertent moments.

"Are you afraid of my death? It shouldn't be. You should hate me. Without me, you are still a high-ranking duke and hero. Without me, you are still the same Feriden you are familiar with."

"Are you talking to me, or to yourself?"

She didn't speak.

Kellyanne looked away, and she regained her composure at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when she turned her head sideways, the shocking anger and struggle were no longer on her face.

"It's up to now." She said lightly, "to whom, what's the difference?"

She stood up, and the dim candlelight stretched the elf's shadow very long.Logan felt that she wanted to say something more, or that she should have something more.Something she shouldn't have said, and he shouldn't have heard, but Kellyanne didn't say it.

"After dawn, we still have to go to Amarantine. Go back and rest, Logan. Even if you can't close your eyes, time will not give you a chance to breathe."?