[closed] date night date night

[keeperofmagi]

WHO: Nerva and Twisted Fate
WHAT: Going on a stupid date where she's going to try to teach him how to swim
WHEN: After Zevran returns from Antiva
WHERE: A little ways down the mountain from skyhold, at a glacial late
NOTES: THIS IS GOING TO BE SAPPY AS SHIT you have been warned

She had been planning it for days, meticulously, and had gone over and over it in advance. The hardest part was the memorization, but that... at least she could just read it. The first thing was a note - given to one of the Tranquil, and brought by them to Fate, which said that he should bring some light supplies for an afternoon outside of the castle, a warm coat, and come meet her at the end of the bridge.

She was already waiting there, sitting astride a horse. The notable thing was that she wasn't wearing her armour - even though she was still wearing her sword - and her shield was not to be seen. She felt almost naked without them, but that was half the point. Instead, she was wearing a good linen tunic, a deep navy, with carefully embroidered edges in a thread nearly the same colour. Her hair was half down - the sides tied up behind her ears, but the rest of it curling down her back.

This is a date, the outfit said, you had best not forget it.

It would help, perhaps, if she wasn't staring off into the mountains as if they had personally killed her family, but that was just how her face tended to set when she was thinking to herself.

Her face shifted as soon as she heard Fate approaching, the hard lines softening as she turned the horse.

"You received my note?"