Ilska stalks towards the people she recognises, hand white-knuckled around the hilt of her sword.

"Can you see him? Or Hawke?" 

"No," Cia says, and eir voice is dark and vengeful.

Ilska has focused on the dwarf Varric had been arguing with, is making her way directly towards him. "Where is he?" she asks, voice low and dangerous.

"Where's who?" The dwarf says, snarling right back. He's clutching something wrapped in cloth.

"Anders. The healer you took with you."

"We got separated. My brother took him and the Hawke twins down a passageway that collapsed. There was no way around it. Varric told me to leave 'em behind."

"Wrong answer," Ilska snarls, raw fury lending her strength and she literally lifts the dwarf from his feet to slam him against the wall behind him.

No. No, he can't- He can't have left Karl behind, left Cia and Ilska- He wouldn't-

There's a strange sort of energy surrounding the dwarf, like glowing red veins.

It doesn't stop the expression on his face turning to pure horror. "There was nothing we could do- Deep Roads cave ins happen all the time-"

Ilska snarls wordlessly, slamming him into the wall again.

"And you just left them there to die. Like a coward."

Defiance is watching that energy, because it feels...wrong.

"K-Karl," Blaise says, watching the energy as well, visibly shaking.

Karl can't move, can't speak. His whole being is consumed by Anders dying alone, buried underground, while Karl- 

Karl did nothing.

There's a sick sort of cracking noise, and the dwarf gasps in pain. The energy surrounding him gets a little wilder.

Ilska can feel it, but she doesn't care. This...this bastard abandoned Anders to die and-

"Something's wrong," Raeli snaps, trying to get someone to do something, not sure what that is but...

The energy bursts out in ropey veins of red, sending out a feeling like teeth grinding together.

Ilska drops the dwarf, draws a fist back and goes to punch him, aiming to knock him out.

The dwarf collapses, and the cloth-wrapped thing tumbles out of his hands, and suddenly the weird energy is gone.

"-What the fuck just happened?"

None of the people with Bartrand seem to have any idea. Most are backing away from Ilska, looks of pure terror on their faces.

Defiance steps forward, and pokes the cloth covered object with their foot.

The cloth lifts open slightly, revealing a twisted looking idol, made of red crystalline rock.