"Forgive my outburst of emotions," says Aedan as Vincent and his wives smile at him.
"Don't worry, I know that feeling too well," says Vincent as he walked over and says, "But how about you compose yourself. I want to surprise your parents and older brother. And with you like this, it will be difficult."
"Alright, let's get to the Castle," says Aedan as he was composed again.
He and Arthur were trying there best while Elissa was trying the hardest since she would instantly try to hug her mother or father if seen. Vincent put an illusion spell on Elissa making her hair turn blonde and her face was shaped differently so she couldn't blow her cover.
They walked when Flemeth and Morrigan looked at Anders and Morrigan says, "You blow it, boy."
"Blow it?" asks Anders confused not knowing what Morrigan meant.
"What she means is that you made the wrong decision because of your pride," says Flemeth as the mages, as well as the Hawke family, didn't know who both, Morrigan and Flemeth, are except that they are Witches.
Anders wanted to say something but both ignored him while as they were getting nearer to the castle. Bryce was awaiting them with Fergus on the gate to the castle.
"How were your travels?" asks Bryce as he hugged Vincent showing him that he was always welcome.
"They were fine," says Vincent as they break the hug and Vincent looked around and asks, "Where are the others?"
"You mean Oren, right. He is running around the castle while being chased by a chicken," says Bryce as Oren was less shy since he has his Chocobo.
He is running around and talking to it the whole time making even the Knight feel proud that the little heir was beginning to learn how to socialize even if it's with a bird.
They enter and Elissa had it really hard not to run at her father who didn't recognize her because of the illusion when Bryce says, "You brought many people with you and most seem to be Mages."
"Yes, six of them are mages the Emperor would like to talk to since three of them became my children making him, their granduncle," says Vincent as now Anders realized what the two women meant with blowing up.
He was now holding his hand against his forehead as if he was thinking when Vincent says, "But it would be nice to show them their sleeping place."
"That would be wise," says Bryce as he looks at his son Fergus who nods when he looks at Aedan and says, "Make sure that no one borders our guest even if they are Mages."
Aedan nods as he leaves before Bryce says, "Arthur, you will be joining me until dinner."
"Yes, Teyrn," says Arthur as he wanted to keep Vincent's surprise a secret from his father as long as possible.
"I would like for my people to eat with us if it doesn't border you. I have a surprise for both, you and Eleanor," says Vincent as Bryce smiles at Vincent wanting to know what it could be.
"Of course, we will meet you at dinner then," says Bryce as he leaves with Arthur while Fergus showed the group around.
Vincent followed them since he wanted for Fergus to know what the surprise was as he asks, "Fergus, where is the room of your sister?"
"Why do you want to go there?" asks Fergus as Vincent grabs Elissa and walked forwards while the illusion falls making Fergus' mouth open wide from seeing her.
"Because your sister won't be sleeping with us since she has her own room," says Vincent as Fergus couldn't believe it.
"Brother," says Elissa when suddenly she was hugged by her brother as Aedan and Arthur did before only that Fergus lifted her from the ground that's how happy he was.
Fergus then walked a little bit further in as they arrived at Elissa's room and Fergus says, "This is your room. We never changed anything since you were taken hoping that one day you might return even if it's just for one day before returning to the Circle again."
Elissa walked into the room as she looked around touching a doll that she loved when she was younger when she says, "I really missed you all."
"That's good and all but Elissa we need to put the illusion back up to surprise your parents at dinner as well as your sister-in-law and your nephew," says Vincent with a smile as Elissa nods as her face and hair changed back to the illusion and Vincent turned to Fergus and says, "Keep the secret like your brothers until dinner. It shouldn't be that difficult."
They leave the room again as Elissa put the doll back since to surprise her parents she couldnt be holding something that could give her away as Fergus continued to show the people around.
In the meantime, Arthur was talking with his father about the travel not mentioning that Elissa was with them when Bryce says, "You did well in stopping Vincent from killing the Knight-Commander. It would have caused an Exalted March against Ferelden and the Empire."
"Vincent didn't seem to much afraid of an Exalted March. He even survived a combined Smite by the Templars. If he is already this strong how strong is the Emperor that was trained by the First Emperor," says Arthur as he was quite scared of it
"We have a peace treaty with the Empire and they don't seem to break it. My worries lay with Orlais. We might have won but every time I go to Orlais the atmosphere is quite tense," says Bryce as he visited Orlais many times as Ambassador for the Crown of Ferelden.
Then the topic changed and Bryce asks, "Did you meet your sister?"
"Yes, she is doing fine. She even passed her Harrowing," says Arthur not revealing anything when Bryce nods and look into the distance imaging how she must look by now.
"She must have a boyfriend by now, right?" asks Bryce as Arthur nods since it was quite obvious to him that Daylen and his sister have a romantic relationship.
"Yes, he is a Me- Elf sorry from the travel with Vincent it stuck to me," says Arthur as he only used Mer the whole time to say Elf when he was around Vincent and the others.
"It's alright I know that Mer means Elf," says Bryce as he already heard it a lot of times from Vincent and his wives.
"I'm happy for your sister. Did you know that your brother Aedan also is in a romantic relationship with an Elf? She is Iona the lady-in-waiting of Lady Landra. You might have met her once when Landra was here. She even has a daughter named Amethyne. A cute girl that will carry the Cousland name once your brother marries her mother," says Bryce since it was alright for Aedan to marry an Elf as he wasn't the heir.
"So you wouldn't have anything against it," says Arthur as Bryce nods.
"As long as he doesn't have ulterior motives I would agree to it," says Bryce as Arthur sighs in relief when a servant enters the room telling them that dinner is ready to be served.
They walked towards the dining hall as they meet Eleanor and Lady Landra that was visiting as well hearing from Landra, "Is it true that the Ambassador will be eating with us tonight."
"It seems so. Vincent is quite a low profile person but he can give you the feeling that he cares for everyone around him," says Eleanor as both encountered Bryce and Arthur.
Eleanor hugs Arthur before asking, "Are you going to sail again once Vincent leaves?"
"Maybe the old man might be missing his favorite grandson," says Arthur as Eleanor hits him softly for being disrespectful towards her father.
They entered the dining hall seeing Aedan already sitting beside an elven woman with Fergus and Oriana and Oren sitting with them. Lady Landra sat down beside Eleanor while Bryce took the seat of the master of the house.
Then Vincent entered the room with his wives as Oren suddenly jumped from his mother's embrace and ran towards Vincent. Lady Landra and Iona were suddenly scared to see the appearance of Vincent and his wives.
Eleanor calmed her friend down while Aedan did the same with Iona when Oren says, "Vincent, how was your travel?"
Vincent takes him up and pets his head and says, "It was fun, how about I tell you after eating."
"Yes," says Oren excited as Landra and Iona could see why the Couslands were trying to calm them down.
"Now where is Abel?" asks Vincent as suddenly he sees a chicken that didn't have his eggshell to protect himself and says, "It seems you were made to rear animals as I."
Abel had a good appearance in Vincent's eyes and was quite strong for his age of little more than a month but it already was big enough to reach Oren's knees.
"Maybe you are lucky and it will become a Chocobo that can mount two people instead of only one," says Vincent as he petted Abel too making the Chocobo feel happy.
Vincent then puts Oren down and Oren returns to his mother's embrace when Vincent takes the seat across Bryce while smiling at everyone and says, "It seems we have new faces with us. My name is Vincent Highwind and those are Karliah and Kirvena, my wives."
"This is Lady Landra she is a long time friend of mine," says Eleanor presenting Landra as both nod at each other.
"And this is Iona, my future wife," says Aedan as Iona turned red from hearing that out loud.
Vincent smiled at them and says, "I might send a gift when the date is placed."
Then Vincent's people came in as the three brothers were looking at one female with blond hair when Iona hits Aedan as did Oriana with Fergus with Arthur the only one escaping it since he didn't have anyone.
They sit down as Vincent says, "Let me present to you the Hawke family. The mother is Leandra Amell, then we have the oldest Garrett Hawke Highwind and the twins Bethany and Carver Hawke Highwind."
"Why do they have your surname on the end?" asks Landra confused as well as Iona while every Cousland in the room knew why.
"Because I adopted them as mine. They have great potential to become something big," says Vincent as he then turned to the next family and says, "This is Mythal and Morrigan. They are Witches of the Wild that I picked up in the Korcari Wilds."
"And then we have the Mages if the Circle. We have Anders and Daylen Surana Highwind as our males representative and our female representative is," says Vincent as he snaps and the blond girl turned to a red-haired copy of a younger Eleanor while Vincent continued, "Elissa Cousland Highwind."
The moment Vincent said Elissa both Eleanor and Bryce jumped up in shock as they looked at her seeing the Cousland hair and the face that resembled Eleanor.