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[blightedson]

WHO: Felix and Adelaide. Then Felix and OPEN.
WHAT: Felix isn't feeling well and collapses. Adelaide tends to him. After, he's up for visitors but is still very weak.
WHEN: Current.
WHERE: The main hall. Then, Felix's private room.
NOTES: Description of illness?

[For Adelaide]

Felix was probably pushing himself too hard, if he was honest. It was becoming more and more clear every day that his time was running out. He didn't have much left and he wanted to try to get as much done as possible before. He had been up all night drafting letters home urging those he had ties with to support the Inquisition.

Then early in the morning he had gone to visit his father. The elder Alexius had fussed more than anything, but Felix still made the effort to try to see his father as much as he could, while he could. Then came arranging the letters to be sent north.

He was exhausted just doing those few things, though the lack of sleep hadn't been helping. He felt the headache coming on. There was a pounding in his head. It was rhythmic. A song. His ears were ringing with it and his head felt like it was swimming.

He made his way up the stairs to the main hall of Skyhold. He was planning to use this path to get to his room while picking up something to drink along the way, but when he bent to pick up the cup he felt his head swarm. His vision blacked.

He heard the gasps and exclamations from those in the hall as his body fell to the ground, but he wasn't aware of much else outside of that.


[OPEN]

Later he's in his room, resting. His body feels clammy. He's sweating but his skin feels so cold. There's very little color left in his cheeks which seem hallow and thin.

Still, he knows rumors are spreading about his health and he's willing to see visitors if anyone wants to see him.

Comments

[fleurdesel]

She'd done her best to mind him. To offer what relief that she could when he called for her- to check in even when he hadn't because if she knew men and their stubborn foolishness at all, she knew he wouldn't call near as often as he truly would require. The more she treated any one patient- so long as she was in their relative vicinity Compassion would stretch out, now and then, to check on them. Today that stretch ends with a trill of concern loud enough to have Adelaide seeking Felix out for herself. Something was worse than usual. She'd told him to mind his health. To take care with how much he did in a day.

They both knew he was fading.

To find him wavering in the main hall, tipping, falling- she ran to his side to spare him a cracked head- stumbling under his weight. Slight as she was she could not hold him upright- kneeling instead to support his head and shoulders in her lap while she called for aid.

"Felix? Felix." Hands steady, voice pointed, she peered into his face for some sign of his waking.

[serannas]

Once word spreads enough that it reaches Ellana's ears, she has to ask around to actually find his room before she turns up, knocking softly on the door. Softly, because she's afraid he might be sleeping and if that's so, she doesn't want to rouse him. But then she worries that he might be too weak to answer if he is awake, so she opens the door a crack and keeps her eyes on the ground to not invade his privacy. As someone who's grown up without much of it, she's learning the value of it now.

"Felix?" she whispers. "It's Ellana."

[amygdalae]

When he heard the rumors, he knew.

The Blight was never a pleasant thing, and to witness the way it slowly and methodically destroyed a person from the inside out only made everything worse. After the first few times Bruce saw him he already figured out what was going on, but now... Now, his time was getting close.

Bruce did his best to make time once he heard the rumors going around. From the kitchens he got some of the usual tea and biscuits that Felix preferred, and like the other times he visited he brought it up to his room, although this time he didn't wait for Felix to answer his knock before he entered the room.

"Alexius? Are you awake?"

[paperwing]

Collapses in the main hall were not very common, and Skyhold was a breeding ground for rumours and whispers. The story has passed through several hands and versions by the time Sabriel hears it, but it doesn't take long. She feels all the right emotions, concern, a wondering as to what happened, but it was the description of the man who had collapsed that made her suddenly lose her appetite.

There's a lot of stories, but she remembers the sensation of something blighted. She did not sense her other Wardens, but she does sense darkspawn, Archdemons, things that are tainted.

She isn't sure. But there's a nag, and it's not long after that Sabriel goes in search of Felix and his rooms. Several people later, she arrives, and knocks.