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Tweak says, "Damit thats where I eat dinner"

Morrigan (witchofthewilds) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2011-05-19 21:46:00

Entry tags:

alim surana, morrigan

Who: Morrigan and the Grey Warden
What: ARGH, feelings.
Warnings: Just blood and gore. No sexings, I swear.

Morrigan's insistence that she didn't have feelings made it difficult for her to actually process said mythical feelings in a stable, mature way. Any attempt to logically explain her actions at this point was idiotic, in her opinion. She was killing demons. It was what she had done in Fereldan. She had wiped out a nest of lesser demons in Cornwall, pulling them out and taking them on one at a time. It took hours, but that was what she needed. Grueling, mindless work to clear her head.

Once Cornwall was clear, she'd sought out something more difficult. Petit had sent her after feral weres, the sort that had lost all humanity and were dangerous month-round. Of course, being the full moon, they were stronger. And they hunted in packs. Morrigan hadn't been ready for all of them, and they'd taken her down. She'd tried keeping herself healed, but there was only so much she could do. Her body was lying in the bushes, bleeding and missing several large chunks of skin where she'd been bit.

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elvenwarden
2011-05-20 09:09 pm UTC (link)

"I wish you and your man the best, honestly," as long as whoever this man was made Morrigan as close to happy as possible, Alim wouldn't intervene. He knew better than to get on her bad side.

There was a pause, and he sighed. This was quickly becoming awkward. "Am I honestly so horrible to look at, Morrigan? Or do you fear I'll turn into a something terrible and cause you to do something you'll regret?"

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witchofthewilds
2011-05-20 10:17 pm UTC (link)

She would have preferred avoiding this entire conversation. As angry as she had been with Zevran, at least he had saved her having to discuss it with Alim. That had been the hope, at least. Talking about those feelings she didn't have was more insufferable than fighting the weres. He wished her the best of luck? She certainly wouldn't have done the same, in his shoes. She would've set the bitch on fire.

She smirked a bit at that. "'Something terrible'? An abomination, perhaps?" Her tone was nearly playful. As though these were things Morrigan worried about. She chanced a sideways glance at him, then. "Alim, you know I would rather chew my own arm off than talk about these things. That much hasn't changed."

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elvenwarden
2011-05-20 10:28 pm UTC (link)

He couldn't help a slight smile at the abomination comment. Somehow, the thought of Morrigan being even remotely scared of one of those was just a tiny bit too amusing.

"When you don't talk about them, you tend to throw yourself into danger or disappear off the face of the world," the blood that still stained the ground near them was rather proof of the former. "The most we ever talked about feelings was before we fought the Archdemon, and then you just vanished away..."

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witchofthewilds
2011-05-21 02:17 pm UTC (link)

"Your point?" It worked well enough, most of the time. The first time she'd struggled with the idea that she might have cared for Brother, she'd burned her house down and vanished for several weeks. Brother seemed to handle her disappearances remarkably well, though they had been far less frequent, lately. She had grown more comfortable with him, and didn't need to run.

"'What would have happened if you hadn't been here?' I probably would have spent a quiet evening at home." He'd saved her life, granted, but her life wouldn't have needed saving if not for him.

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elvenwarden
2011-05-21 02:50 pm UTC (link)

She had a much better point than him, it had to be admitted. Damn her and her ability to blow holes in his reasoning.

"Whatever force drags us here must've just felt like throwing a spanner in the works by bringing me here... it certainly put a stopper to my plans, to say nothing of yours," he knew better than to assume when it came to her. Assuming tended to lead to waking up on fire or slightly frozen. "The you I left behind was... going to take me to see the child that resulted from your ritual."

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witchofthewilds
2011-05-21 05:41 pm UTC (link)

She was quiet for several moments, prepared to ignore the subject entirely. If he had actually gone to the trouble of finding her, though, in an attempt to meet it, he probably wouldn't take kindly to her refusing to acknowledge the topic. "There was no child," she said finally. Her tone was low and her jaw clenched briefly.

It probably wasn't close to the amount of information Alim was fishing for, but any creature with a survival instinct could tell that it would be very unhealthy to provoke Morrigan right now. Caution was needed.

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elvenwarden
2011-05-21 06:08 pm UTC (link)

He knew to take that as a sign to avoid pressing the subject further. Best not to give her an excuse to immolate him on the spot. He liked not being on fire, an awful lot actually.

"Child or not, we all survived the Archdemon thanks to you," he'd leave the subject at that. If she ever wanted to tell him anything, he'd let her do it of her own free will - at least then there'd be far less physical pain involved. "That aside... would you like me to help you back to your home, or is that me playing the hero too much?"

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witchofthewilds
2011-05-21 08:33 pm UTC (link)

The change in her tone was abrupt, from the cold calm of a cobra about to strike to the less-dangerous irritated mocking that served as Morrigan's conversational tone. "Yes. The Blight is ended and the mighty Grey Warden lives. Once again the day is saved." She was grateful he didn't question her further. She had no doubt the topic would come up again, probably when he was out of her attack range.

"It would be a waste of breath to tell you to stop playing the hero, Alim." She rolled her eyes. "But I'm not sure any of us are ready for you to meet Brother."

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elvenwarden
2011-05-21 10:42 pm UTC (link)

He had to mentally slap himself to keep from commenting on the man's name. That had to get a bit confusing and awkward at times... getting her back to not wanting to kill him once was challenge enough, though, which gave him all the more reason to avoid that subject.

"That means you're likely stuck with me until you're feeling less... fuzzy," he paused, shaking his head slightly. Morrigan and fuzzy didn't go together. "Well, maybe not fuzzy, but... when you're having less trouble getting up?"

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Morrigan smirked at his choice of descriptors. As useful as it was to play the weakling, at times, she and Alim were long past that game. "I believe I'm quite capable of balancing now," she said, pulling herself upright. "An escort out of these woods wouldn't be unwelcome, however." The weres had been gone for some time, but that didn't mean they wouldn't return. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

elvenwarden
2011-05-22 01:21 am UTC (link)

Alim chose to take the smirking as a sort-of good sign, before picking up his staff and rising to his feet. "Of course. Two mages are harder to take down than one... just because the beasts aren't making themselves known doesn't mean they aren't here."

As it was, being savaged by some creature wasn't high on his list of priorities. He'd gotten enough of that from Darkspawn before he ended up here.

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 01:29 am UTC (link)
	"They weren't exactly the most subtle creatures," Morrigan commented, a brow raised. She doubted very much that they were hiding in the bushes, watching them. "Still, they were fast. We would have some warning, but not much." She retrieved her staff and began to walk the way she came. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elvenwarden 2011-05-22 01:48 am UTC (link)
	"Even the most unsubtle things can surprise you," Alim shrugged, casting a brief glance behind them just in case. "We'd best move quickly either way. They might be gone, but there could be scavengers coming to see what their prey was." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 02:47 am UTC (link)
	She tilted her head, raising a brow in his direction as he spoke of surprises. "We are still talking about the weres, aren't we?" She nodded. "We move, then." A full-out run would be difficult to manage, but she would try to match the Warden's pace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

elvenwarden
2011-05-22 02:57 am UTC (link)

"If there's even one amongst them that's got at least half a mind left, there could still be surprises... or maybe I'm vastly overestimating them," to be entirely fair, the only weres he'd really encountered had been the ones that the Dalish had been fighting.

Knowing that running likely wouldn't be possible for her for a while longer, he didn't set too strenuous a pace, just enough for them to likely keep ahead of any approaching nasties.

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Morrigan smirked. She had half-suspected he was talking about her. Apparently not. She shrugged. "We can be careful, then. If it will make you feel better." She kept up with Alim, not complaining of any strain. It would be nice to get home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

elvenwarden
2011-05-22 04:33 am UTC (link)

"Or I could be underestimating you," he admitted. It'd been a long time since he'd seen Morrigan fight, but he could at least vaguely remember her jamming her staff into a high dragon's eye once... or maybe that was just one of his interesting dreams that happened when things knocked him out. "How many of them did you manage to take down?"

He was allowed to be curious, wasn't he?

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 04:47 am UTC (link)
	"Only three of these," she said with a shrug. "A few dozen of the others. It was a nest; I cleared it. I fear I may have robbed my friend Bela of her go-to punching bag." Yes, Morrigan had a friend. "These hunt in packs. I don't think their territory stretches much further than this, though." The woods were starting to thin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

elvenwarden
2011-05-22 04:57 am UTC (link)

Morrigan with a friend? By the Maker, did miracles never cease in this world?

"Demons repopulate quickly, and the weres may be weaker when the moon is waning... either way, she'll have her punching bag back eventually," if there was one thing Alim's education in the Circle had provided, it was little bits of information like that. "You're amazing to have taken three down on a night like tonight, even if it didn't end too well."

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 05:08 am UTC (link)
	Morrigan rolled her eyes upon being complimented. "Didn't I make it clear you weren't going to talk your way into my bed, Warden?" She didn't need pointless praise from her former companion. "You haven't even seen them." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

elvenwarden
2011-05-22 05:15 am UTC (link)

"You made it very clear. I was just complimenting, nothing more," Alim knew she didn't like them at the best of times, but still... "Unless weres are dramatically different between here and Thedas, I have a decent enough idea of what they're like."

To be honest, with her saying that, he half-expected her to spin some tale about them being twenty feet tall with eyes that shot fire... or maybe that was more a Flemeth thing to do.

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	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 05:59 am UTC (link)
	"There's no need for that," she said, waving her hand. "What if they'd been as ferocious as kittens? Taking out three certainly wouldn't have been impressive. So... shush." They had, of course, been stronger than that, and more of a fight than she could handle. Still, Alim didn't know that, so his compliments were meaningless. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elvenwarden 2011-05-22 06:09 am UTC (link)
	He knew enough from the state they'd left her in, in his opinion. "But kittens don't gouge out chunks of skin or leave you a bleeding mess," he pointed out. "If they do, someone should really warn the Grey Wardens back in Ferelden before Ser Pounce-a-Lot exterminates the lot of them." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	witchofthewilds 2011-05-22 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	That earned a smirk. She supposed there was some evidence, so she wouldn't argue further. "Still, I don't require praise from you." She wasn't an easy woman to compliment. "I think I know my way back from here," she said as they reached a clearing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elvenwarden 2011-05-22 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	And without there being any sign of danger, he was more than happy to accept that. He gave a slight bow, unable to resist the urge. "Take care, Morrigan," he said. "Maybe next time we run into each other, there'll be less blood and death involved." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

witchofthewilds
2011-05-22 06:01 pm UTC (link)

She gave a small nod. "Perhaps. Stranger things have happened, I suppose." It would take a while for things to stabilize, she thought. Maybe one day, she and Alim could be around eachother without wondering what might have been. Perhaps they could be... friends.

"Thank you, Warden," she said just before touching the portkey and disappearing. She had no desire to see his response to that small gesture.

When she arrived home, she greeted Brother with a smile. Through the ring, Alim would note a strong wave of relief, and even some happiness.

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