Ugh, she's not any good at this. Should have practiced communicating with people who she didn't have a common language with before she was trapped in a cell.

She makes a little walking sign with her fingers, trying to go for 'people' but maybe it looks like it means walking. Ugh. Maybe that's okay, though. She can point out to the hallway, and the little walking fingers can walk along the wall they share with the hallway, and stop at the door, and she can point to the door and make her mouth move and point to that, and point to herself and then to her ears. 

She is not sure if that communicates 'people came and I heard what they were saying' but she's bad at this, see.

Nah he got that part, he heard them too. Nod...nod?

Okay. The people outside said - how do you pantomime the concept of dreaming - uh, she points to herself and pantomimes sleeping again and then - makes a motion like lots of wispy something emanating from her head, and again tries pointing to the door and then making her sign for watching and then points to her head.

Miserable flop. Maybe he doesn't dream, he's really really not going to get this if he doesn't dream.

"The Fade," she says, aloud, because if they don't have the concept in Osirion then maybe the word didn't translate before and maybe he knows her word for it?

He draws his hand across his throat and gestures far away.

...yes, people do go to the Fade when they die, that's right. She nods. - it might be good to have yes and no, she points to the nodding and says "yes" and shakes her head and says "no" and does that a couple more times just so it's obvious that the words correspond to the gestures and this is not an extended pantomime sentence of its own.

Got it.

Okay. She copies his gesture for death. "Yes Fade, yes Fade, yes Fade." She repeats her pantomime for sleep. "Yes Fade." She pantomimes waking up. "No Fade."

- nod.

She points to herself. Sleep. She points to the door. Watching. "Fade."

Nodnod.

Well okay that's - really all she has, then, she doesn't have a plan. 

She... shrugs.

Hug?

.......yeah.

Hug.

Hug.

If they use a demon she can kill it. She's done it before. She's not clear on whether this will improve anything, they might just wake up in the cell again, but it's really the only thing she can think to try. Maybe she can... talk to the demon first, see if she can offer it a better deal than the magister. This is a terrible idea but if they don't get free somehow then everyone is going to die, so.

Since staying awake isn't helping her, she doesn't try to continue it. And eventually she falls asleep.

Maybe they should sleep in shifts, what with the fade thing? Maybe it doesn't matter? He should have thought to ask before she went to sleep.

He tries digging at the walls with his modified plate. 

He decides to stay up, just in case.

The walls are not really responding to this.

Morning arrives, eventually.

She doesn't wake up.

Then he'll try to wake her.

Doesn't work. She's sleeping very soundly.

Well, fuck.

He stays awake as long as he can. Tries to wake her more or less constantly.

Doesn't help. Occasionally she makes a terrified whimpering sound in her sleep, apparently not in response to anything he does, but she doesn't wake up.

He contemplates how viciously he will murder these people once he's resurrected. 

And eventually he falls asleep.

She is having a nightmare. Has been having a nightmare continuously for the past day, actually. But it's a familiar nightmare; she knows the Arl of Denerim's home as well as she knows her own, she feels like, and at this point it's always shaped the same way. But it can grow new corridors it isn't supposed to have, sometimes, away from the stable parts, and she figures if she's going to find her friends - not Shianni, Shianni isn't here, she needs to find - someone - right, Hagan and Fazil and Mahdi and Draconis, she can remember that - they're going to be down the corridors that don't belong in her nightmare.

She follows a winding corridor and kills a lot of people and gets a lot of blood on her wedding dress, and ignores the commentary from the walls, which is universally in the voice of the guard captain that killed Nelaros and Nola - she thinks she might hate him even more than she hates Vaughan - and she tries a lot of doors with a lot of people behind them who she has to kill, and eventually -

She opens a door and comes out in - Sothis, there's just the entirety of Sothis, hanging out inside the Arl of Denerim's manor. This'll be someone else's nightmare, then.