[It was strange to watch a person make themselves small, whether that was their intent or not. Magic has never been something to be ashamed of.]
I saw Kinloch Hold. [Ten years later and still her first experience - only experience really - of a Circle still sticks with her. Truly, a trying time but the rot had set in before the Blight there, the very existence of the Circles in her eyes.] Everyone believes that mages outwith Circles run rampant, consorting with demons at will. Most believed us to be maleficars to be put to the flame, now after a taste of true freedom? [Well, she cannot imagine what the people must be saying.] Yet there were no abominations when my mother taught me magic as a girl, no temptations, nothing that made me frightened nor angry, nor desiring an escape. Kirkwall did always have such a long and bloody history however. You clearly took your freedom at some point.
[It's why she will fight tooth and nail for her son.]
I have fought to keep my reptutation from touching him. [For once she sounds tired when she admits that because it is tiring. That a boy cannot be a boy, that the mother would be used against him, and him against her. And once again she isn't quite sure what to say regarding her motherhood, the surprised smile show.] I--I thank you. Tis not easy, as any mother would say.
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I saw Kinloch Hold. [Ten years later and still her first experience - only experience really - of a Circle still sticks with her. Truly, a trying time but the rot had set in before the Blight there, the very existence of the Circles in her eyes.] Everyone believes that mages outwith Circles run rampant, consorting with demons at will. Most believed us to be maleficars to be put to the flame, now after a taste of true freedom? [Well, she cannot imagine what the people must be saying.] Yet there were no abominations when my mother taught me magic as a girl, no temptations, nothing that made me frightened nor angry, nor desiring an escape. Kirkwall did always have such a long and bloody history however. You clearly took your freedom at some point.
[It's why she will fight tooth and nail for her son.]
I have fought to keep my reptutation from touching him. [For once she sounds tired when she admits that because it is tiring. That a boy cannot be a boy, that the mother would be used against him, and him against her. And once again she isn't quite sure what to say regarding her motherhood, the surprised smile show.] I--I thank you. Tis not easy, as any mother would say.
[For different reasons than her own.]