Reaching towards adulthood?

[issala]

WHO: Kas & You!
WHAT: Catch-all for the month
WHEN: All through Justinian
WHERE: Skyhold (mostly)
NOTES: Feel free to hit me up on draiol for any specific starters!

I. Healer Tents

Since the trip to the Fade, the strange headache had returned. Now it was always there, nagging him, but at times it grew to something less tolerable and more 'knife in his brain'. Kas tried to ignore it, but eventually he had to drag himself to a healer again to get a potion or something until it calmed down.

Opening the healing tent flap after a little knock to a pole, he makes a grumbling sound as a greeting, not sure if it was a healer or another patient in the room.

II. Archery Range

The archery training was going well for the teen, and he found himself always feeling better after he had gone through his training for the day. It cleared his head better than any other things he had attempted, and came with the added bonus of actually improving something. With the hip quiver making pulling out an arrow much easier and less entangled, he was also increasing his speed.

After nailing another shot at the dummy, Kas takes a quick break to grab his water skin and wipe some sweat from his forehead. Concentrating was heavy work.

III. Herald's Rest

Better days meant better ways to entertain himself, and Kas often found himself at the Tavern playing games with other patrons. Wicked Grace, Diamondback, Checkers. Other times, he just liked listening to people talk (and maybe shyly look at girls). He didn't drink, though, which annoyed the staff a bit.

(Good thing the cook thought he was cute.)

Writing letters to his old kith had been sparse lately, the more he realized how bad it had really been there compared to the families he heard about from people like Gorse and Korrin. Still, he felt obligated to let them know he was alive now and then, and could be found scribbling on paper in the tavern when not losing his money to cards.

...it usually ended with him doodling instead.

IV. Wildcard!

Comments

[issala]

"I..." He's not sure what to say to that, really. Kas honestly doesn't know where to put the Bull, but he trusts Zevran. Knowing that a former Antivan Crow will keep an eye on the Ben-Hassrath is a bit comforting, though. "...I see."

Not the best reply, but it's hard for him to express himself when he's not even sure what to feel.

The other topic? It's simpler to know his emotions there. Shame. "It's easy to say, but it's not... it's not easy to believe." Every strike of the whip and the guard had called him 'worthless'. Over and over until he believed it, until his life became a struggle to show he wasn't.

[ombranera]

"I could tell you that it becomes easier with time- but that is a lie. There are days when I remember the coin paid for me and think, perhaps, it was too much. There are days when I laugh at the number. It varies." Sometimes it is simple.

Sometimes it is a struggle to look past what made him what he was and see anything else. "I do not know your life well enough to understand what has made you think so. Nor do I know an easy answer or a trick to help you find a way to know this to be true. I do know that measuring your worth by the validation of others is a temporary fix at best and one that will leave you ever wanting. The only one that might determine your value is you. And that...will take you time to measure."

[issala]

Kas remains quiet for a moment, letting Zevran's words sink in. It takes him a moment, and then he gives a small nod. "I think I understand what you mean. It's... gonna take time. Working with the Inquisition really helps."

He made a difference here, no matter how little.

"You got a good dad," he says to the baby, before he ruffles the kid's hair. It was easier to show his gratitude to a kid than his idol, for some reason.

"I'll break that lock."