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WHO: Cosima Niehaus - and you?
WHAT: Catch-all log for August
WHEN: Handwavey depending on when your character will be around Skyhold
WHERE: ...Skyhold
NOTES: While Cosima is going to be ill in one of the starters, it is fair to assume she'll be back on her feet within a week or two, so feel free to assume she looks fine if you run into her outside the healer's tent. (Alternately, if you'd like her looking a little peaky as a hook, that works too!) If you want something other than the hooks below, or want to chat first, DM me or grab me on plurk.
WHAT: Catch-all log for August
WHEN: Handwavey depending on when your character will be around Skyhold
WHERE: ...Skyhold
NOTES: While Cosima is going to be ill in one of the starters, it is fair to assume she'll be back on her feet within a week or two, so feel free to assume she looks fine if you run into her outside the healer's tent. (Alternately, if you'd like her looking a little peaky as a hook, that works too!) If you want something other than the hooks below, or want to chat first, DM me or grab me on plurk.
I. Healer's Tents
Cosima has been instructed to rest, and at first, the instruction is unnecessary; she's too weak to do much else. But spirit healing seems to have done the trick, at least temporarily, and as her strength starts to come back, it brings her curiosity with it. Thus, whenever no one is there to order her back to her cot, she wanders - mostly respectfully keeping her distance, but occasionally asking a question if she thinks she can get away with it. Some of the healing is related to medicine as she understands it. Some of it she has no frame of reference for at all. But concerns like "not wearing herself out" are secondary to learning more about what's going on as they patch people back together. She's not as well as she'd like to think, but she's well enough to get restless.
II. Kitchens
It is well known that convalescence requires baked goods. Cosima is still hesitant about overstepping, since she technically hasn't joined the Inquisition; she's a refugee, and she's well aware of how long she wouldn't last if someone decided to kick her out. So she is very scrupulous about asking first before she takes anything and about trying not to be unreasonable in how frequently she asks.
It's not her fault that those little buns with the jam that tastes like peach in the center are so addictive.
III. Various Around Skyhold - Roommate Search
Once she's determined that she's eligible for a barracks room, Cosima has decided to get one. What she hasn't entirely resigned herself to facing is a randomly assigned roommate. She's too old for that nonsense. On the other hand, she doesn't exactly have a huge roster of acquaintances to ask. So she's compromising by asking around. If someone else is looking for a roommate, at least they can have a beer together and make sure they don't hate each other before committing to cohabitation.
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A pause, then: "Wow, that sounded really ungrateful. Sorry. I'm just a crappy patient, is all." She bites her lower lip, briefly. "You're sure there's nothing nontaxing, non-recovery-threatening I can help with?"
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"No, I'm just doing some routine check ups, that's all." A pause of his own as he considers what she had said a little more. "But if you want, I can see if I can get anything that you might be interested in at the library." Or maybe informative, even. He's pretty certain there has to be a history book about Thedas somewhere among all those tomes and other rare volumes. He's well aware how lost the Rifters could be when it came to many things about Thedas, so hopefully it'd be killing two birds with one stone.
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Maybe someone has? She hasn't run across it, though, at least not as such.
"Thanks," she adds. "Really." And, after a moment: "I'm Cosima, by the way. If we were introduced, I'm afraid I don't remember."
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Maybe its something that could be worked on in time. Possibly.
...its something to think about, at the very least.
"It's not a problem," he replies to her, then inclines his head and introduces himself back in kind. "And no, we haven't. Bruce - its a pleasure to meet you."
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Her curiosity is genuine, but so is her apology. She's gathered no one here particularly wanted the Rifters dumped in their laps any more than the Rifters wanted to be dumped. It's an awkward situation for everyone. But she's also never going to learn if she doesn't keep askingn.
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"No, it's fine." It's hardly rude by any means - and he can tell that she means well, so it doesn't bother him at all. "I've been in Skyhold ever since arriving here with the Inquisition from Haven - that's where they used to be based at. As for what we're doing... well, restoring peace to Thedas is the short version of it." The long version was... well, it was a story by itself.
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Considering that her introduction to Thedas was "try not to die while fighters take care of the demons," it's probably not a surprising thought. She's picking up things, here and there, but she knows there's a lot she's still ignorant of.
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But well. It's not like things always had been like that. Though it is getting harder to remember those days now.
"But everyone's doing the best they can." Or well, almost everyone. "After all, if Thedas is gone its not like there'll be anything left to fight over."
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Not really a good way to think at all, obviously, but Bruce can see how it would happen.
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Of course, for now she's still not up to helping do much at all, but those are minor details. Between spirit healing and ignoring the problem, she's sure she'll be just fine.
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A tired, sick person was not going to help anybody out here. As much as Bruce understood her distress, it was a fact that rest was the best thing for her right now as well.
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"I'll head back. But it was nice to meet you."
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"It was nice to meet you as well," he returns. "I'll drop by later to pass you those books I promised from the library." Its the least he can do, since he did promise and he certainly wants to do whatever he can to make her time in bed easier.