CELIAAfter listening to her speak, I wiped my tears with the back of my hand and forced myself to stand even though my knees bled through the bandage again and my whole body felt like ice, and I looked straight at Mara while my voice shook but I didn’t let it break."I can handle the test," I said, "I walked through that forest alone and I crawled through that tunnel alone and I survived the line where Alpha Theo left me, I can handle your mist too".Mara's smile twitched like she didn’t expect me to talk back, and Lara stared at me like I was crazy and brave at the same time."You can handle it?" Mara repeated slowly, tasting the words with a tiny tilt of her head. "You say that now because you have not seen it, all exiles say that before they go in, then they beg"."I am not all exiles," I said, and my chest burned a little where Lydia had started to wake, "If that is the rule to stay, then I’ll do it, I am not afraid of it".Chief Varric pushed the tarp aside at that moment and st
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