amellsinferno | In Another World | locked to apostate

After an hour of shopping, the girls have almost enough food and supplies to last the group more than a week. Solona remembered Cullen mentioning a tavern earlier so she decides to head there with Nellie, carrying bags of food and supplies and clothes with them.

The two enter the tavern and immediately Cullen stands up to assist them. He may have had a few drinks but he had a somewhat high tolerance. All the drinks did did was keep him from worrying a bit too much and Maker, he needed that. He takes a bag each from Nellie and Solona and brings it to their table.

"Maker's breath, you two bought so much things!"

Anders moves to help Solona and Nellie with their bags, looking rather grumpily at Solona.

"Help me, Sol. He won't let me drink."

Nellie giggles a bit at this, shaking her head.

"Of course he won't. You're a devout Chantry Brother, he doesn't want you to do something irrational while drunk."

This just earns Nellie a look from Anders, which she ignores as she talks to Cullen.

"We thought it would be a smart idea to stock up. Just in case."

"Oh, Andy, Nellie has a point, you know. Can't let anything jeopardize the whole front we have, after all," Solona says apologetically.

"That's right," Cullen smirks towards Anders' direction before turning to Nellie. "What exactly did you manage to buy then? Aside from food, which I'm sure you both had a field day doing."

Anders glares at Solona.

"You realize this means you can't drink either, Sol."

Nellie's just choosing to ignore the two of them, instead talking to Cullen.

"We got food, clothes, soap, basic essentials like that."

Solona does love her drink and what Anders said was true. They couldn't drink that night... at least in public. She leans over and whispers in Anders' ear, "yes, but I managed to buy two bottles of wine from a kind merchant claiming that it's meant for a peace offering between the Chantry and a few nobles." She snorts. It was a silly story but hey, the merchant believed it.

Cullen ignores the two as well, not noticing Solona whispering. "Good work, you two. I'm proud of you, Nel," Cullen smiles at her. It was hard to keep things platonic on the outside but he's sure she could feel how he felt despite that.

Nellie wasn't with Solona when she bought the wine, instead talking to a few other merchants, picking up a few more supplies. Anders gives Solona a huge grin.

"Sol, I love you so much, you know that, right?"

Nellie smiles and fights back a blush.

"Thank you, Cullen. We should have enough to get us through till Lothering."

"You tell me time and time again, Anders," Solona winks. "You know I think about your happiness constantly."

"Lothering's just two days away. We have more than enough to get us there, actually." He turns to the owner and nods at him. "We should bring all our things to our rooms now, yes?"

Anders grins.
"Well, I have to keep telling you, or you'll forget, you know."

The owner nods at Cullen, giving him a small smile and leading the group to their rooms.

Solona grins back, leaning closer to Anders. "Rather you show me how--!"

Cullen coughs with an irritated tone infused into it. "We're taking the things upstairs. Why don't you help me, Anders?" Maker, these two, what about what Solona was saying before about keeping their charade?

Anders groans a bit, before nodding. He looks back at Solona, waggling his eyebrows at her, before following Cullen.

Nellie shakes her head and stays behind to walk upstairs with her sister.

Solona snickers again, leaning over to Nellie to whisper, "It's so nice to have boys to boss around."

Cullen's just going to pretend he didn't hear that. He opens the door to one of the rooms and sets the bags down on a table.

Nellie just smacks her sister lightly in the arm, but the smile on her face seems to agree with Solona.

The rooms aren't too big, but they're nice. 2 people will definitely be able to fit without any trouble.

The rooms were cozy enough. And warm too, thank the Maker. Solona then clears her throat, shooting a glance at Anders and thinking of the wine. "So, about the sleeping arrangements..."

Cullen sighs. "It would be better if you and Nellie slept in the same room tonight to avoid gossip with the townsfolk." Last night, sleeping beside Nellie felt so wonderful, it pained him to suggest what he just did.

Solona blinks. But the wine! "If... If that's what would keep our cover then..." She looks at Anders sadly. "Fine."

Anders sighed. Damn. There goes the chance to drink wine...he gives Solona a small smile, patting her on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, Sol...we'll be able to spend time together when we're back on the road."

He hoped she understood what he was getting at...Nellie gives Cullen a small smile.

"What he said, Cullen."

Cullen gives Nellie a smile back, taking her hand in his now that they were in private-- well, somewhat private.

Solona rolls her eyes and sighs in defeat. "I just hope you both don't kill each other by morning." She manages a smirk.

"I'll... try my best not to," Cullen scowls.

Nellie smiles at Cullen, squeezing his hand.

"You two will be okay. It's only for one night, after all, and we'll be back on the road and in Lothering before you know it."

Solona sighs again. "I'm just saying, Cullen, if you start hearing noises in the middle of the night, just go back to sleep." She bursts into giggles, winking at Anders' direction. Cullen just glares. He turns to Nellie. "Please control your sister," he pleads.

Nellie shrugs, smiling apologetically.

"I can try, but that's an impossible task you're asking me to do, love."

Cullen groans again before kissing Nellie on the cheek. "You both should get changed, by the way. Get some clean clothes and a hot bath."

"Ah, a hot bath," Solona sighs. Ever since Calenhad and the long, cold night before, it's all she thought of.

"I asked the owner to bring up hot water at our command so just call him and he'll send someone up." He gives Nellie's hand a reassuring squeeze before letting go. "Anders, we should give them some privacy."

Nellie smiles and blushes, nodding.

"A bath sounds good, actually...really, really good."

Anders nods.

"Fine. We can go set up the rooms. Do we get baths too, though?"

"For the love of Andraste, please take yours when I'm not in the room," Cullen groans. He turns to Nellie one final time to plant a kiss on her lips. "I'll see you for dinner, love," he smiles, the alcohol he had earlier making him bolder.

Solona scoots over to Anders' side and whispers to him, while Cullen and Nellie are distracted. "So, since you're going to be alone in your room for your bath..." She grins impishly.

Anders groans at the two lovebirds before smirking at Solona.

"I love the way you think, dear."

"Shall I bring the wine along with me?"

"Oh, Maker, yes."

"Perfect," Solona grins. It'll just be like sneaking around the tower except the only templar they have to worry about was Cullen. Now, she only needed to find a way to distract him-- but then again, the perfect distraction was right with them in that room. She'd have to talk to Nellie later.

"What are you two whispering about?" Cullen eyes the two of them skeptically, hesitantly breaking eye contact with Nellie.

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