#[ local dwarf cousins adopt elf 1000 times their age ]

[theharellan]

I sketched this drabble a while ago as a reference for a commission that didn’t really pan out, but I kind of like the emotion of it so I’m posting it here. Cadri Cadash is written by Joly.

An arm wraps around his waist, tugging him sharply against the Inquisitor, turning his gait lopsided. Her cheek pillows against the wolf’s pelt draped across his chest. “You know she only gives you shit because she loves you,” Thora says, words dripping with barely concealed amusement.

Cadri demonstrates no such restraint, her smile brimming with pure delight. “You make it too easy, Baldy.”

For his part, Solas feels the rough edge that lingers from the dig lessen, pricked hubris smoothed away by Thora’s assurance. Still, he has a name and reputation to uphold. “And yet I alone am the target of these jibes,” he notes, stiff as he is able.

“I know you can take it.” A loose fist knocks against his arm, and might have sent him stumbling forward were he not already braced against Thora. Despite himself, despite the teeth which dig gently into his bottom lip, a smile breaks across his face, and sandwiched between two dwarves there is no place he can look to hide it. “See? He loves me, too.”

“‘Love’ is a powerful word,” he says, yet makes no effort to deny it. His feet steady themselves beneath him again, though he keeps his stride short to match theirs. One arm reaches out, touching Thora’s far shoulder to match the one she still anchors across his waist, as warm affection flowers behind his ribcage.

#( my writing ) #mi'durgen'len ( cadri ) #show that mercy to me ( thora ) #[ local dwarf cousins adopt elf 1000 times their age ]