some men you've reduced to ashes are finally dusting themselves off

[ungovernable]

WHO: Benevenuta Thevenet + ensemble.
WHAT: Hercules Hansen has died.
WHEN: After Solace 7th.
WHERE: Skyhold, Warden Camp.
NOTES: Planned threads, but please feel free to give me a bell via pm or other means if you'd like to add to them!

Word travels quick in Skyhold. Not uniquely - word travels quick anywhere there are people, everyone knows. Less usual is that when word of the party's return from the Deep Roads travels (less one member), it stirs Benevenuta early from her work - but not to meet them. No, though she goes to the camp she goes directly and without tarrying to the tent she's shared with Hercules for these past weeks and for a long time stands there, studying the small signs of a life briefly shared.

By the time Alistair finds her, first, Herc's belongings are already half packed and Benevenuta does not look surprised to see him.

Comments

[hlif]

"My people have our ways. Corrupted is corrupted, people go to sleep and never wake up all the time, no one questions it." It doesn't take an augur or an assassin to know how to do it. If Asher had thought he could've gotten away with it? If the rest of the Boneflayers hadn't been dealing with bandits or bounties in and around Ferelden? One woman's judgement in a city already gone mad still supposedly saves his neck again when he lit the match to set half the world on fire.

Part of him hasn't forgiven Kaisa for giving him that look that said he was only angry because it was personal as if he had no right to be hurting. That dangerous black mood of his that earned him the nickname where his hand had curled into a fist, the world red at the edges, whispers in his ears of how easy it would be to make her stop talking. But then Asher wouldn't be any better than an abomination so he got his head screwed on straight.

Not that the clarity is helping now.

"I'm going to be saying some prayers at my part of the camp, I'll add some for you. This high up and the Lady of the Skies won't have to listen hard to hear me."