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    Malcolm Hawke had three kids and a stubborn determination to reach Kirkwall.

    Lothering had been home for ten long years, the longest he'd been anywhere of his own choosing. He had roots in the village in a way he'd never had before - there were friends, drinking buddies, people who respected his advice about herbalism and botany.

    He'd watched Leandra's funeral pyre in the grounds of the Chantry, Bethany clutching his hand, Carver holding hers. Garrett had stood a little way off, watching the pyre burn with the same aching grief. Three kids, two of them who took after him when it came to magic. One who looked like him, joked like him, loved like him. And one who looked so much like her mother it hurt to look at her some days.

    When the Blight first crept out of the Wilds, Malcolm knew they had to go.

    An AU where Malcolm Hawke is the surviving parent and gets them as far as Kirkwall before the shadow of the Gallows is too long to avoid. Follows Garrett Hawke trying to constantly piece himself back together as he loses his family one by one.

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