Third Letter to Solas: The Memory of Fire

Cullen's much easier to love, but Solas brings back my teenage angst.

Fun Facts:

Cinnabar, the common ore of mercury (mercury itself, being named after the trickster Roman god), was used to make the red pigment vermilion in Roman frescoes.

Erasthenes mentions adding a teaspoon of cinnabar to a lit burner in the Shrine of Dumat during the quest, "Under Her Skin".

The Memory of Fire

When you left, I pressed cheek and palm to cool plaster, my way lit by veilfire, searching for some secret trace of you. But your brushstrokes were invisible, as the paths your cinnabar-stained fingertips traced on my skin, turned gold by evening firelight.

Even yet your touch transforms me, changing the topography of my body in a thousand subtle ways, and though you never intended it, two hearts shall beat together once more.

-A yellowed note found in the cracked stonework of an unfinished Skyhold fresco