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[eolasemah]

WHO: Sina Dahlasanor and you!
WHAT: Sina has a shard in her chest and has been told the rifters have similar ones in their hands. She wants to seek out rifters and investigate this further/compare marks/find out if they're demons or not.
WHEN: Frostfall
WHERE: Around and about Skyhold
NOTES: Please feel free to join if not a rifter! People on surveillance duty are also encouraged.



The diminutive elf resembled a deer as she made her way through the scattered crowds of Skyhold: dignified and alert, but ready to bolt at any sign of danger. The shard in her chest glinted conspicuously beneath the light shawl she wore, and her careful grey eyes scanned the area for any glowing that matched it. It was like a homing beacon, and for the first time since she'd acquired it, Sina wasn't trying to hide it.

[The Herald's Rest]

She'd never been in here before, having been warned off over raucous drunken humans and sword-happy Templars. She had a mission, however, and hoped she was right to assume the tavern would be less frightening in the daytime.


[The Healing Tents]

It was a wild guess, but surely some of the newcomers would need healing? She wandered along the rows of tents, seeking out the telltale green glow.


[The Dungeon]

The very act of going into this dismal place of stone walls made her feel ill, but perhaps there were still prisoners here, those accused of being demons. She steeled herself and made her way down.


[Wherever!]

Anyone who wants to be found somewhere else is welcome to post in! She's being very thorough.

Comments

[serannas]

"No, I understand. I came into my magic a year after my parents died. A great deal of the clan died in a plague. We were probably one of the largest clans before that. And my Keeper... well, she raised me. She taught me how to control my magic and didn't want to send me away to strangers after I became an orphan." Ellana paused and glanced around the garden to make sure no one else from her clan was about.

"Sometimes I wonder how things would have been different if I were First someplace else. But I think I'd be a completely different person." Would her heart long for things the clan couldn't provide? Would she feel settled and full of purpose instead of drifting without one?

"In the end, I can't blame the Keeper for keeping me around. It was kind of her to take pity on an orphan."

[eolasemah]

In the end, Ellana had a point. Sina considered her perspective and nodded slowly, accepting the explanation as reasonable. "I expect that's what I'd have wanted, if I'd been in the same situation," she pensively replied. Never mind that she had parents and was more or less estranged from them; each clan was quite different, she was beginning to see.

"...I suppose... while we're here, we might as well make the best of it," she remarked, after a pause. "It would... likely benefit me to learn spells that aren't related to healing."

[serannas]

"I think so, yes. You and I are here for different reasons, but new experiences can be beneficial." And fun. Not always, but she was determined it be so in her case. She wanted to do good here, and enjoy herself while she did.

[eolasemah]

Sina nodded with a close-lipped smile, still uncertain about times ahead, though she was growing bolder. New experiences could be beneficial, surely. She hadn't keeled over yet.

Unless Ellana filled it, Sina would allow a companionable silence to lapse, in which the two of them continued their methodical plucking and clipping of leaves.

[shall we end the scene here?]

[serannas]

[ ooc: sounds good! ]