With a grin like a fox darting out of a henhouse in a cloud of feathers, he flicked an imaginary speck of dust from the back of one of his vambraces. “Just so.” Completely unperturbed, the shorter man rocked back on his heels, arms folded nonchalantly across his chest.
“You had a mage, or so the records show!” Stroud’s gauntleted hands banged down on the flat face of the desk, flicking wax from a candle and making the light dance crazily across the resplendent griffons emblazoned across large portions of another Warden’s armor. I preferred writing about the Amaranthine Wardens, and there’s more complete stories to come.) It’s stated in the Codex for the DLC that she remains under Stroud’s command, so I did take these stories in a different direction.
This is AU because next to nothing is really known about what happens to Bethany after her Joining. (This is series of stories based on this fan mix for Dragon Age: Big Bang.