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[sunsetsoft]

📩 "keep your eyes on me. just focus on me. we're going to be okay." @breathandshadow 🔆 emotionally charged – accepting!

ellie did as he was told, eyes previously focused on the disarray behind the necromancer coming to gaze upon him. her mind was racing, chest heaving with heavy breathing. we're going to be okay. did he believe that, or were they just words to calm her down?

ellie remembered a conversation with emmrich, not too long ago, where she admitted that death didn't scare her, and he had confessed the opposite to be true for him. their proximity to death, though incredibly different in their practices, made the hypotheticals fun to discuss, but in this moment, in the face of being thrust into leadership, elinor realised there was perhaps more to her answer. his own death didn't scare him, but being responsible for others'? which was why she needed to know if emmrich's consolations were earnest.

soft hands took emmrich's forearms, steadying herself and considering whether to let the vulnerability show as varric's words of advice echoed in his mind.

"do you mean that? we're going to be okay?" he kept doing as he was told though, eyes unwavering in their gaze, hoping their shared connection to the mourn watch was enough to communicate what the mage was unable to find words to express.