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[youwonscience]

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.

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.

Comments

[thecookery]

She doesn't laugh, sadly, but she does give just the wryest look Thedas has ever seen.

"Better," she comments dryly, after a beat of silence.

[youwonscience]

Cosima's smile is small, but there. Minor victories.

Once she's swallowed, she said, "I'll be around the next time you need to test a recipe, then." And she'll let Avery get back to her work, instead of having feelings, for now.

[thecookery]

"Sure," is the mumbled response, as Avery glances back into the kitchen and then down at the plate in her hand. After a brief internal debate, she holds it out in Cosima's direction. "Just bring the plate back when you're done. I'm not eating all of this, and there's no sense in wasting."

See? She's just the worst kind of bastard, isn't she?

[youwonscience]

Despite herself, Cosima beams. "I promise. I'll even wash it first. Thanks."

She really does look much better when she smiles. Baked goods are obviously very therapeutic.

[thecookery]

Avery just nods, "Mhm."

Clearly, Cosima has come to the right place if tasty treats are the medicine she needs, because sticking food in them is just about the only way this one knows how to deal with sick people.