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“Tell me why we shouldn’t kill you now. The Conclave is destroyed. Everyone who attended is dead. Except for you.”
Kanye attempted to stand up, spluttering nonsense as he did so. Cassandra was not having that. She pushed him down, grabbing his left wrist in the process.
“Explain this,” she sneered, only a couple inches from his face.
A single bead of sweat dripped down the side of Kanye’s head. He had to think very hard about what he was going to say next.
“Life of a Don, lights keep glowing. Coming in the club with that fresh shit on. With something crazy on my arm.”
Cassandra dropped her hold of him. “You are not making sense!” She yelled. “Tell me the truth!” She reached back as if to strike him, but Leliana quickly intervened.
“We need him, Cassandra,” Leliana reminded her.
Kanye stayed silent.
“Do you remember what happened?” Leliana asked him seriously. “How this began?”
Kanye put both hands on his face and shook his head violently. “I've been outta my mind a long time. I've been outta my mind a long time. I’ve been saying how I feel at the wrong time. Might not come when you want but I'm on time.”
Cassandra and Leliana gave each other a Look.
Cassandra sighed. “Go to the forward camp, Leliana. I will take him to the rift.”
Leliana left without a word.
“Do you know anything of the Breach?” Cassandra asked.
Kanye shook his head no.
“It will be easier to show you.”
She quickly replaced his manacles with a rope before leading him outside. As soon as Kanye saw the breach he began shouting.
“What the fuck right now?” Kanye yelled at nobody in particular, gesturing wildly at the sky. “What the fuck right now? What the, what the fuck right now?”
Suddenly the Breach pulsed, and the anchor on his hand flared in response. He dropped to his knees with a scream. Cassandra came up behind him.
“Each time the Breach expands, your mark spreads… and it is killing you. It may be the key to stopping this but there isn’t much time.”
Kanye gave her a long, hard look. He looked down at his hand, the sky, then back to Cassandra before finally giving her a slow, hesitant nod.
“We ain’t got nothing to lose, motherfucker we rolling.” He said seriously.
Cassandra gave him an exasperated look. “I do not know what in the world that is supposed to mean. Speak normally!”
Kanye shook his head no. Because he couldn’t speak normally. He was trapped by his own lyrical genius.
“Motherfucker we rolling!” He repeated himself, beginning to walk away. Cassandra still wasn’t sure why the bizarre man spoke like that, but she got the hint. Still, she wasn’t happy about his crudeness, but right now, that was not important.
They were quiet as they walked through the town until Cassandra noticed that Kanye was matching the villagers angry stares with a challenging one of his own.
“They have decided your guilt,” She explained. “They need it. The people of Haven mourn our Most Holy, Divine Justinia, head of the Chantry. The Conclave was hers. It was a chance for peace between mages and templars. She brought their leaders together. Now, they are dead.”
Kanye shrugged his shoulders. “Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it. I guess every superhero need his own theme music.”
“What is a super-- No. Do not answer that. There is no time for this nonsense. Ugh.”
They stopped for a moment as the soldiers opened Haven’s front gate.
“We lash out, like the sky. But we must think beyond ourselves, as she did. Until the breach is sealed.”
She pulled out a small dagger.
“There will be a trial,” she said as she cut off the ropes from his arms. “I can promise no more.”
She began walking towards the bridge as soon as she was done, motioning for him to follow. “Come. Where we are going is not far.”
“Huh?” Kanye stood still, which made Cassandra stop while she was still only a few paces away.
“Your mark must be tested on something smaller than the breach. Follow me, we do not have much time.”
Kanye blinked at Cassandra, but still he did not move.
“Ugh.” She turned around and began marching back towards the bridge. “Either you follow me now,” she shouted without turning her head, “Or I will come back there and drag you up the mountain myself.”
Kanye only stood still for another second. He looked down at his hands again, clenching his left fist over the glowing green mark.
“No one man should have all that power...” He whispered, and then he was off.