Azry and Shianni tear off across the square, Zevran and Leliana on their heels. 

Soris waves them inside, and then-

Cyrion, Azry's father, fine, but in his arms-

"Stio!"

Azry falls to her knees in front of the body Cyrion is holding. 

The body of her barely-alive baby brother. 

A blackened ring of blood circles a wound on his stomach.

"He- they were baring down on me, I told him to run-" Cyrion sobs.

Azry leans over him, to press her forehead to Stio's. "How the fuck did you raise two reckless children?" She tries to joke, but her cries make her words shake.

"He wouldn't run, he said that he could fight- Maker, Azry, he sounded like you, when Adaia-" 

Cyrion's head rests on Azry's.

"He can't- we can't let him-"

"Azuria, I don't want to- I didn't want to lose either of you."

"Neither of us are dead!" Azry growls, but doesn't raise her head from Stiofan.

"I'll go see how far Wynne is. There's still hope." 

Zevran runs back out into the Alienage. 

"I have a poultice, it might...ease the pain." 

Leliana presses a small pouch into Azry's hand. 

Azry takes it, and tries to force her tears back down, as she rucks up her brother's tunic, to gently daub the elfroot-and-valerian onto the black, sick looking wound. 

Stio moans-

"Shhh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Stio, it's just a little- it'll stop-"

And then she feels it. The sick rolling beneath her skin, echoed in Stio. "Fuck. No."

"What? What, Azry, are you-"

"It's the Taint, he's Tainted, he's got the Blight- FUCK!"

Cyrion turns snow-white. "No. Maker, no, I won't lose another to the Wardens, I can't-" 

He curls over his son. "I can't, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I failed you both."

She should've been here, she could've protected him.

Time crawls to a stop, but also goes too fast, and suddenly Wynne's hands are replace Cyrion's over the wound. 

"I can heal it, but I can't cure-" She says, not unkindly.

"I know."

"But there is a cure. The Joining." 

Alistair wraps his arm around Azry's shoulders.

"Because we just have the potion lying around at all times."

"We don't. But Riordan wanted to Join Loghain, right? So he would have to have it? Or at least instructions on how to."

"I know how to put it together. I was one of the Enchanters who made it at Ostagar."