all of nature wild & free

[eviscerates]

WHO: Ruby Lucas & various.
WHAT: Catch all
WHEN: from the beginning of the months until Orlais Adventures
WHERE: Various locations within and near Skyhold
NOTES: To be added!

starters in le commentios and to be added to through the month.

Comments

[serannas]

"Have you?" she asks, curious as to what those things might be. There's no doubt in her mind that people do need to relax after the things they witnessed in the Fade.

"Thanks for the warning. I'll be careful." And when she gets there, she turns her torso a bit so she can see past the box, and then carefully steps down to the floor.

[eviscerates]

"Yeah! Well, some of it won't be ready for a while." With a nod to the boxes Ellana's carting for her, she continues, "and may not be wise to consume if you're in need of a clear head for working. I'm still figuring out the best ways to make gin and schnapps and everything. The theory I've heard a lot about but the practical side is a little new."

The way she says a little suggests that it is, in fact, very extremely new. Her grandmother made cider and all sorts. Ruby? Ruby was more about the mixing of drinks.

She watches a moment, just in case Ellana needs a hand with that one treacherous bit of stairway, and then happily continues down the hallway, turning the final corner and opening the door to her office, if by 'office' you mean 'brewery.' Her obsessively cleaned underground brewery with an uneven roof and some areas too low for her to stand up straight, while others she couldn't reach for the ceiling even if she stretched her arms above her head and stood on her toes.

It's a weird room, but it's the space no one else was using, so she's glad for it, and carefully sets her own boxes of produce down. "The other idea is one Adelaide-- ah, Councilor LeBlanc kind of inspired. Big snow fight. Ice forts. Getting everyone to sort of... just be people for a while, instead of being Templars or mages or whatever. Do you know what I mean?"

Ever so slightly apologetic - she's not so sure she's articulating this well. She was never the one giving inspirational speeches, that was Snow's wheelhouse.

[serannas]

Ellana enters the room, amazed that it exists in the state it does. Was in constructed this way, or has the ceiling bowed after long centuries? She can't imagine the ancient elves taking shortcuts with the construction.

The set up for the brewery catches her attention briefly, before she follows Ruby's lead and sets the box down.

"When one thinks of Adelaide, they do tend to think 'ice,'" she says, before nodding her head. "I think so. You'd like a big snowball fight like we had on First Day?"

[eviscerates]

Ruby, for her part, is moving over to a couple of candles. The light in the room is limited, to say the least, and though there's a lantern in the corner that made getting in here safe she has no particular desire to lurk in the dark.

Ellana's observation gets a smile out of her... Although she's heard more than a couple of people complain about Adelaide, so she clarifies (albeit casually, brightly) "I tend to think of laughing, when it comes to Adelaide, but the ice stuff is pretty amazing."

One of the candles is being stubborn about not lighting, the wick spitting without catching, and she frowns at it a little before it registers that Ellana had a question, and she still hadn't answered it. "Um, yeah. I mean, Adelaide was telling me about it, a little. I wasn't here, but it sounded like a good way for everyone to be able to relax a little."

[serannas]

"Laughing, huh? That's different from the times I've seen her. It's in Council meetings and it's always stressful." She walks up to Ruby and the candle, offering her a smile.

"May I?" she asks, nodding towards the candle. She lifts her hand, palm up, and a small flame erupts on her fingertips.

[eviscerates]

"For sure." She holds it out without thinking, and laughs - quiet and started and pleased, all mixed together. "Hey. Remind me to hang out with you when it gets cold around here."

Not that Ruby gets cold easily, but hey. Banter is important. After a moment of pause she adds, "I'm pretty sure politicians are required to look serious all the time. It's like a thing."

[serannas]

Ellana lights the candle with ease and lets the flames on her fingertips go out. She lit the fires back in the clan, and fire magic comes the most naturally to her, so this was a breeze.

"Probably why I'm no good at being one," she answers with a bashful smile.

[eviscerates]

"Thanks." That was much, much nicer than aeeing fireballs thrown around. Regina might be changing, but Ruby? Well, for Ruby fire always had some unhappy associations. Ellana's help draws out a smile, though.

"I wouldn't worry too much. Politicans seem to very, very tense. I say go with what makes you happy." With that said, Ruby pauses in the midst of setting the candle in the stick. "Do you like politics?"

[serannas]

"Not really," Ellana admits with a shrug. "But it's more about what I can do for mages than what I personally like."