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Zevran Arainai ([personal profile] ombranera) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-06-12 08:44 pm

[ OPEN ] Se sapessero tutto su di te

WHO: Zevran, Luciano, and YOU
WHAT: Catch all for the month
WHEN: June/Justinian
WHERE: Skyhold
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[ After the Baptism (Early Justinian) ]

Early in the evening, after some small ceremony in Skyhold's chapel, Zevran can be found surrounded by his Kestrels, sitting quietly in a corner of The Herald's rest as they played music and sang a great many traditional Antivan pieces. There is food and wine and dancing and Zevran partakes only a little. While he may look tired and a little overwhelmed, the night is a joyous one all the same. In his arms, on his lap, or sitting on the table with Zevran's steadying hand upon his back is a small elven child. All wide blue eyes and blonde curls, tanned skin that is marred only by the smudge of ashes in a circle on his forehead as is custom, dressed in a simple cotton shift Luciano Arainai claps and squeals in turn, gnawing on whatever is within reach or patting down Zevran's shirt with sticky hands. He is a child, they are sticky, it is a known fact. To the end of the night exhaustion catches hold for both, leaving the infant cranky and Zevran struggling to soothe him long enough to slip away to their rooms.


[ Garden ]

Afternoons find Zevran lounging in the garden- fresh air is both good for him and supposedly healthy for children- as long as he is able to keep Lucci from shoving things into his mouth that are not meant to be eaten. Which is everything. Which means it is less lounging and more tugging upon a leash and harness he has rigged to let his child roam but not too far- only a few feet from where he is sprawled and sketching upon a blanket. Most of his attention is actually on his son but it does the boy well to assume he has leave to explore. At least until he crawls back to demand food or attention or- whatever it is infants want. Zevran is still learning to interpret his various burbles and shrieks.


[ Courtyard ]

Zevran is, for the moment, trapped under the dead weight of his son- the slightest shifting earns a familiar screwing up of Lucci's face that has him resigned to simply leaning back against the tree where he'd stopped walking to shift his grip earlier and wait out the nap. He dare not doze himself- too tense against the open area, how vulnerable they are, how exposed. Tensing too much causes the same small sounds of upset and thus he is forced to sit, mind that he does not lock up, and wait for Lucci to fall deep enough asleep that he might carry him back to their room or rouse himself enough to make the trip worthwhile.


[ Hot Springs ]

"Your voice does carry, you know." Idle and conversational, Zevran has found a shallower edge of the hot springs when he'd truly rather a deep soak- but elven infants do not swim well and as such he must sit over here. With a shrieking, splashing child rigged safely in some manner of wicker basket he'd lowered into the water to keep Lucci from falling over backward and drowning. And to keep these little floating toys (maker only knows who gave them to him, he cannot recall) from floating away. "Yes, yes, splashing the water is marvelous fun- please hold still."

Not that Lucci is one to listen, wriggling under Zevran's hands as he tries to clean...something...sticky from his son's hair. "What is this, honey? How did you get honey in your hair? When were you near honey?"


[ Training Grounds ]

There are rare days when Lucci is not quite so prone to shrieking and crawling, not quite so intent on escape and Zevran can wrap him in a sling of sorts, tucked up against his chest, and actually train his Kestrels. It is an adjustment, every so often he must away to change the child's soiled underclothes or to feed him and the extra weight is odd and leaves him sore at the end of a few hours- but with one hand on Lucci's back to support him, the other gesturing as he speaks in rapid fire Antivan, directing his Kestrels through their maneuvers.

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Partyyyy

[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-13 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
There's always something of a ruckus going on in the Rest. It wouldn't be much of a tavern if there wasn't. But she recognizes the Kestrels, Zevran's personal elite...students, she supposes, or members of his fledgling house. And in the middle of it all, the man himself. Rachette finds herself relaxing some to see him out and about. He keeps on disappearing for one reason or another, and she had begun to fear he'd been stolen away again.

Not so, apparently. "Master Zevran!" she greets with a little hop and wave, hoping to be seen before she gets trampled under dancing feet.

And there is. a child. on the table. A little Zevran-looking ragamuffin clapping chubby hands. "Is this what's had you missing for so long?" she asks, amazed and befuddled both.
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-13 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Luciano," she repeats. This raises...so many questions, and while she tends toward incredibly blunt, she's not sure she has any right to ask them.

Eh, never stops her anyway. "Were you elsewhere, or did you lock yourself and this little one away? Is his mother still around? How old is he? You can't have had him around this whole while; a newborn would've taken up even more of your time."

She keeps her hands to herself, respectfully, but she sees the smudge upon his forehead and laughs. Almost wants to rub it off, but a little dust never hurt nobody. "Looks like someone's already taken to playing around in the dirt."
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-13 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Returned to Antiva? Has she pressing business to leave such a young boy here? Safer than bringing him along on the long journey, I guess..."

There's a thoughtful frown as she considers how weird this religion is. With their fire and their ashes and the whole mess. A moment to consider surface dwarves (which...she is now one), and the Warden dwarves, and how their bodies would be burnt for the sake of a god they might not believe in. But the Stone would be tainted otherwise. So they say.

"I didn't know you were Andrastian," she comments. Perhaps she doesn't expect it of elves. And certainly not of someone as...Zevran as Zevran is. But it takes all sorts, here. "Better than getting it permanently tattooed to his head. Isn't that right, you little mess? You'll probably rub it right off and never know it, rolly polly."
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-15 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Means he's fed well," she agrees. She wouldn't actually know, but it's better than being a small, skinny thing. "Means his dad's taking care of him." She wouldn't know anything about that, either. "Does this mean your days as a teacher are numbered?"
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Will the lessons also include such facts of life like 'how to hold a babe' and 'how to change a diaper'? I'd be surprised if any of your fellows here even quite know what to do."
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-21 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"A baby is much more complicated than a lock, it's true. Much different skillset, too. Are there books about this sort of thing? To make it easier on you?"
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[personal profile] sistertohermen 2016-06-23 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"What happens when the Inquisition's done, though?" It's a thought that has to have crossed his mind at some point. "Do you and he and the Kestrels have someplace to go?"