Dedicated to AjaxAth for making me amazing covers, even though they haven't read Dragon Age yet.

Photo of Axel's tree house. (Ignore the background.)

I reached my arm up as high as it could go, grabbing hold of the nearest branch, I pulled myself up and with my legs, pushed myself up.
Again and again I done this, my muscles pleading for rest.
I looked up, even though that made me dizzy, I noted that I was almost there.

I stopped climbing for a moment, panting heavily. How does Axel do this? I asked myself.
Something caught my eye a few measures to my left, on the same tree I was climbing.

"A ladder." I huffed. "How did I not see this earlier!?" I whisper yelled.
With a great amount of effort, I shuffled over to the ladder.
Grabbing hold of the dried out vine and sticks that formed the ladder, I began climbing. Every step I took I thought the ladder would give in, but it didn't. Maybe if was safer climbing the bare tree, I thought.

I finally reached the top, grabbing hold of the flat wooden floor of the tree house, I pulled myself up the rest of the way, until I was standing on the tree house floor. I looked around for a bit. I must've been at the back of the house. The back of the house was made of black wood. Usually wooden houses are only for the wealthy, but I guessed that rule didn't apply for a jungle man.

I walked slowly to the front of the house, my closed shoes making a tapping sound on the deck.
The front of the house was also black, and it has large windows- Also something for the wealthy.
I noticed another ladder, but this one was a lot smaller than the one had climbed. I went from the deck on the side of the house, up to the roof. I can imagine it would get messy up there, all the animals, leaves and insects would make their homes up there.

To the edge of the deck was a almost fence like barrier made of some net or something, obviously so it isn't so easy for you to go tumbling off the tree if you trip or take one extra step.

I leaned on the net like fence, looking out at the view. The moon at its apex, and the stars shining bright.
The sky was pitch black in further down towards the trees, where there won't much stars.
The trees were also barely visible in the dark. I could see on my right, that there was an orange light hidden mostly behind the trees. If wasn't sunlight, but it was the camp fire that was always lit in the center of my village. I smiled as I saw, how such a big thing, could look so small from up here. You could see anything and everything up here!

"What took you so long?" a voice said from behind me. i didnt move from my position. i was all too comfortable here. "a few things actually." i replied as axel leaned on the rails beside me. i thought for a few seconds before i added, "sorry about that."

"why dont you come inside, its getting a bit cold." axel said, rubbing his arms to warm them up. i turned my head to look at him. i wasnt sure if he was really cold, or maybe he thought i was cold. i huffed, "i thought guys were supposed to be strong. i dont even feel the cold." i grinned. axel looked a bit surprised at first before he frowned and punched me in the arm playfully. it was my turn to be surprised now. a guy just hit me? that may not seem like anything special to you, but to me, that meant he thought i could take a punch, he didnt think i was weak. i remembered when me and leo were still friends, i playfully hit him in the arm once, and what he said to that was, "if you were a guy i would've punched you back, but since your a girl im afriad if i punched you id take your arm off." just anothere way of showing off how 'strong' you are.

my thoughts brought me back to reality and i noticed axel was nowhere to be seen. i guessed he went inside so i decided to as well. i walked in slowly so i could take in the view of the whole thing. in was small and cozy. i saw a large battle axe in the right corner of the room, next to the door i entered from. there was a little table across the room in the right corner. i walked up to it, examining its patterns and style that was very different to the tables in my village. on the table was a large clear, glass box, filled will saber's teeth. i opened up the box curiously, and grabbed one of the teeth. carved into the tooth said 'dray'. i noticed all the other teeth had names on them too. i guessed this must've been some sort of a memorial for sabers. deciding it mustve been, i put the teeth back and closed the lid. i looked around a bit more.  on the left side of the entrance was a bucket of water, and across from that and the table was a door. axel mustve went in there. that mustve been the bedroom perhaps.  i looked down at the floor, it was made completely out of wood, and against the left wall was was seemed to be mammoth fur and skin in a large pile, i guessed to be like a seat. 

i leaned against the wall beside it, not wanting to sit where i might not be aloud to. while i waited for axel to come from wherever he was, i pulled out oak from my pocket. "hey buddy." i pet his head. my mind wondered back to the day where we went hunting. to the day the dragon attacked. how it dodged me, and let me pet its cold scaled face. it couldve been injured from fighting the men. maybe thats why it didnt harm me, it didnt have the strength. even though i felt like that wasnt the answer i decided i would pretend it was because it made the most sense. "what do you think?" i whispered to oak, before axel opened the bedroom door and saw me. i quickly slipped oak in my pocket and smiled nervously. "what took you so long?" i asked. axel's eyes were glued to my pocket. "what was that?" he asked suspicously. "nothing you need to worry about." i said in a calm voice, but it had an edge to it. an edge saying to back down.

but that just made him more suspisious. "if thats what i think it is.. i wont tell anyone." he said. i hesitated before i pulled oak out of my pocket and showed him to axel. "is that.."

"heart oak."

axel hesitantly touched it. "i always wanted to see heart oak..." he said, but turned the happy mood into suspision once more. "i thought you wont aloud to take wood off that tree?" he already knew, it wasnt really a question. a nodd was my only reply. axel continued to look at oak. "did you make this?" he asked. "um.. yeah." i said unsure. "is he a... dragon?" axel asked. "yeah.." he looked at me questioningly. "im not even sure."

/SO sorry about all the typos!!! I done this on my computer which doesn't have Auto Correct and changing it to Caps is really hard! But I will go through this to fix them all Asap./

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