[open] we all live and breathe

[eolasemah]

WHO: Sina and yyyooooouuuu
WHAT: Miscellaneous early spring interactions!
WHEN: Drakonis-ish
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: get er while she's still kickin

The Healing Tents

Now that the weather is warming ever so slightly, and Sina is feeling ever so slightly better, she's throwing herself back into assisting the Inquisition's healers. Though she uses magic sometimes, for the most part she's helping out by providing poultices, herbal remedies, and a soothing bedside manner to the ailing patients, keeping herself busy and no longer focused on the anchor in her chest.

This is how she spends the majority of her afternoons, with the occasional break to rest. She's not in perfect health herself, and it's showing more than ever.
Though in most cases she just seats herself off to one side until her strength rebuilds, there have been one or two incidents in which she has very nearly collapsed and required assistance.
If this upsets her, she shows no sign of it, at least not in the moment.

The Garden

Sina's early mornings to lunchtime are spent planting, trimming, and checking the progress of her various charges. They're starting to bud, which concerns her somewhat since frost is still very much a problem, but some coaxing (and perhaps the tiniest use of Keeper magic) keeps things moving along in a healthy and otherwise undisturbed manner.

She can be found here in the evenings as well, sitting outside her tent, sometimes with Nahariel, wrapped in a blanket and enjoying a cup of tea. She's come to think of the garden as home, it being the greenest place in Skyhold.

Elsewhere

There are times Sina can be encountered with her basket of herbs, making deliveries to the various offices and people requesting medicinal teas, or just in transit from one place to another. It's actually quite rare to find her inside the Keep itself, as the stone enclosures make her nervous, but she does have to pass through every so often.
Hippie.

Comments

Garden, evening (open to Nahariel and Araceli)

[gatheringstorm]

Korrin almost never visits the healing tents -because of someone whose name rhymes with Shmanders- but that still leaves the Garden for when she wants to check on Sina. If she has time in the mornings and Sina can use the extra pair of hands, she'll offer her help...but more often than not, training has to come first and she has the evenings free instead.

Such as now. Making her way over to the tent, the Vashoth woman smiles upon spotting Sina and her tea. Perfect. She covers the distance in a few strides, sitting down so that her much shorter friend doesn't have to suffer neck-strain. "Good evening, Sina. What do you think of the latest in Skyhold fashion?" She pats her 'stole' which is really just a yawning Lux curled around her neck.

[nadasharillen]

"Expensive to have to feed your clothing, isn't it?" Nahariel calls good-naturedly from behind the new trellis she's putting up, her hands full of bits of string.

[foxsays]

Another person who avoids the healing tents is Araceli after her lengthy (in her opinion) stay at the end of last year. Most of the healers are still happy to see the back of her after her behaviour unless she's doing one of the odd supply runs because she knows all the shortcuts. Lux tends to stroll through though because who doesn't love a fox that wants to be petted and told he's handsome?

Said fox that she's been trying to track down for the past hour after he disappeared on her when she was checking up on The Walrus. So she's up on the rooftops of the gardens right now.

Watching. Waiting. Yeah you fat little shit how long before you notice her staring from on high. Or someone else.

[eolasemah]

At first Sina is horrified by Korrin's new 'fashion', but only for a second or two before she realizes what's actually going on. Nari's comment confirms it, and not to mention Lux is moving, so Sina bursts out laughing at the revelation.
"Da'bane'halaan," she says fondly, rising to her feet to give Lux scritches on btoh sides of his neck, behind the fluff of his cheeks. "It's very fine," she adds to Korrin, "though I might argue that he's wearing you."

[gatheringstorm]

Sina's initial expression has Korrin alarmed at first, wanting to make her laugh rather than horrified. So upon meeting with success, she grins and leans in a little more so that Lux can get his much-needed attention from other ladies. "I can't blame him, if that's the case. I am pretty good transport, you know." She winks, having carried her and anyone who's needed it and hasn't been an ass.

"I think he's fond of the view. And it's not that expensive, but food does mysteriously disappear wherever we go. I wonder how that happens." She swears he's gotten fatter within the hour, though it'd take him fattening up a lot more for her to feel the burden. When those ears prick up, she glances around for whatever's caught his attention.

[nadasharillen]

Nari comes over to add to the problem by fishing a little dried meat out of the pouch she keeps at her belt when she's working out in the garden--gotta keep that energy up!--to offer to the reclining fox, followed by a little skritch under the chin.

"That's very close to what my family calls me. Bana'hale; black fox. Since all the rest of the Halaani are fair with red hair." She'll grin. "Adoptive family, naturally."

[foxsays]

Slipping down from the rooftops while they're distracted means Araceli can approach slowly, keeping out of Lux's line of sight but he can smell her. Enjoying the petting suddenly stops when he realises he's about to be in trouble.

"We call him ladrón at home, it means thief." Wasted Lux. "My mother has called him a pair of fine gloves waiting to happen but even for us with our naming conventions, it is quite the mouthful. Sina, Nari," she dips into a slight bow for Nari, not knowing her nearly so well. Korrin gets more of a look. "Sirena."

[eolasemah]

"Oh noooo," Sina playfully wails, going to Korrin so she can reach her arms up, inviting Lux into a cuddle. "You will never be gloves, da'halaan, I won't allow it." Assuming he acquiesces, she hugs him tightly, pressing her face into his fluffy black fur. "Though Korrin is right, he does make a fine scarf."

[gatheringstorm]

"'Black fox', eh? I like that." Korrin flashes a grin at Nari before leaning down a little more so that Sina will have it easier taking Lux. "He's the best scarf, fuzzy and warm. Though watch out, I swear he's gained some pudge."

And that look is noted, but the Vashoth woman can't quite manage sincere repentance. "Hey, I was providing an important service! Ask him. Better that I keep Lux entertained than have him harassing random people, right?" And fed and lazy....

[nadasharillen]

"Where did he come from?" asked Nari with some amusement, pleased at Sina's unalloyed enjoyment at burying her nose into the seemingly receptive fox. "Not around here, surely?"

[foxsays]

"I was telling someone just recently that I can picture it now: Korrin wearing him into some soiree, telling the man at the door 'no, just a scarf serah, the latest fashion in Ferelden can't you tell?' before she enters. Then as she wanders around he eats all the canapés." Lux presses himself against Sina as Araceli continues with her damning character assassination of her son. At least he hasn't started to shed quite yet, then he'll look less chunky but only because half his fur is going to be left behind in her and Korrin's bed and everywhere else.

Turning to Nari so she doesn't have to watch this embarrassment she raised, she does smile because it's always a fond memory. "Lux comes from home though I cannot be sure where. My father found him aboard his ship after they stopped on an island to stop for supplies, he must have wandered on. He brought him to Castileos and gave him to me as a companion."

[eolasemah]

Sina is enjoying this embarrassment very much, thanks. She's begun to mellow to the idea of captive predators who are happy to hang around, and none have captured her heart so much as Lux. Before coming to Skyhold, she never comprehended the pleasure of mashing one's face against a fluffy coat, and now she can never go back.
Hallas' fur is much coarser. And they don't like face-mashing, except each other in rutting season.

[gatheringstorm]

Araceli's scenario provokes a laugh and smug grin from the Vashoth woman, who watches Lux and Sina fondly. "What do you say, Lux? Should we try that sometime? I'll make sure you have access to all the best grub." And then they can amuse themselves by making people jump when the 'stole' actually moves.

[nadasharillen]

Nahariel laughs at the image of a "stole" eating ambient food while the wearer is purposefully none-the-wiser,

"You should let Sina do it--she's got quite a developed 'innocent face'. Although she's only ever deployed it in Isen and my defense," The older elf recounts with a grin, crossing her arms and looking sidelong at her clansister, "That I know of.

"Plus she's shorter than both of you. Closer to the banquet table."

[foxsays]

Maybe Lux is just odd. Growing up around pirates and whores and thieves as he did, then in a building of artists. And a year trotting about a palace, getting himself accustomed to luxury before a rift saw fit to rip all that away from him so rudely. The little fennecs are skittish even with him sometimes.

"Maybe I should take Sina to the tables with me then, I can do the drinking, bring her in as part of a two-woman sting. An innocent face works so very well with so very many people in this world." But seriously, let Araceli do the drinking, she remembers the time with the sweetened wine. "It's been too long since there was a party I could take him to without worrying, I need to do that now." Sorry not sorry Sina.

[eolasemah]

Sina is a bit surprised, and embarrassed to boot, when Nari rats on her. She would never use her sweetness to get ahead in life!
...definitely not. And that's why she's blushing and looking quite guilty indeed.

"It didn't work that well," she mumbles into Lux's fur, turning the both of them away slightly so she can be properly evasive. "And no more parties for me, thank you. They're too noisy and crowded."
This is said with a near-primness, a tone Nari has no doubt heard before: the Miracle Baby's response to being picked on. She's above it, don't you see.

[gatheringstorm]

Sina's guilty look is noted and Korrin snickers even as she closes in to pat Lux before reaching Araceli's side to slip an arm around her. "Parties are the perfect cover, though. When everyone's distracted, that's when you can most easily strike. Get in, get the good stuff, get out.

...not that I know from experience or anything." You lying liar, Korrin.

[nadasharillen]

"You're right," Nari replied, grin quirking at the younger elf, "if it had been perfect, I wouldn't have gotten stuck mending fences for three days after I decided it was boring to just paint the halla's horns. Not when there's so much lovely white space."

Even given the fallout, Nahariel's grin says she still thinks it was a pretty great idea. And despite her use of the singular, she knows that Sina knows that she knows they were both in it up to the tips of their ears. After the young First had ascertained it didn't bother the halla any, of course.

Keeper Thalia on the other hand...

"Of course not, Korrin," she replies, turning to the two women, "you're far too dainty and well-behaved to even consider pilfering pastries."

[foxsays]

Seizing his chance to try to make things up, Lux squirms his way free of people that aren't Araceli because guess what he sleeps in her bed and has to make sure he still has those rights. Pawing at her shins once he's down, he gets his wish to be hoisted up over her shoulder, nosing at her curls as he makes himself comfortable.

"Pastries can be a delicate matter; do they leave a trail, will they give you sticky fingers, where will you hide them? Better things to steal at parties than just the pastries. The last one in Skyhold I relieved those in the hall of the good wine to take to the party outdoors, they were more in need of it I thought." A requisition, so she would argue, though not one that anyone who might have caught her would have agreed with but she's stolen far more and far worse in the eyes of such folk attending as Korrin and Sina can likely guess.

Laughing, with a hand up to steady Lux, Araceli snorts. "You painted the halla? I don't know what I would paint that would be the same but my mother would've had me keelhauled for lesser crimes. And to hold your tongue, allowing someone else to take all the punishment? Tut tut."

[eolasemah]

Of course, Sina becomes all the more sweet and vulnerable as the conversation turns against her, and now she doesn't even have Lux to hug! Terrible.
Completely red, she protests to Nari, "I got punished too!" She folds her arms, smiling a bit, but clearly flustered. "You just didn't see it." Because unlike the ten thousand Halaani whose parents had to wrangle them all, Sina answered mostly to the Keeper. She presses her fingertips over her mouth as the others continue to talk pastries, shaking her head. Perhaps the subject has finally moved on.

[gatheringstorm]

"My grandma would bust a lung laughing if she ever heard that one." Once Lux is hoisted up, Korrin reaches over to briefly rub the top of his fluffy head while she smirks at Nari. For all his spoiled nature, it's not as though she hasn't had fun encouraging it. Such a handsome boy should be able to do whatever he wants, as long as that cold nose doesn't touch her boob again. (It will happen, she knows and is resigned to it.)

And she joins in the laughter on the halla-painting, almost wishing she could have seen that for herself. "That's terrible, I love it. Everyone needs to misbehave at least a little when they're kids, you know. The adults need to be kept on their toes. You were providing an important service."