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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

[youwonscience]

"Interesting. So in that case, entropic forces would be working toward bleeding, and only the Veil keeps it from happening. The naturally chaotic outcome is Rifts, rather than lack of Rifts." She's mainly thinking through his theory out loud; she's learned some, but not enough to have a good sense of how sound the logic is in this instance.

"If that's true, sealing Rifts is treating a symptom, but won't stop whatever's weakened the Veil in the first place?"

[apostafuckyou]

Raylan wasn't sure of what some of those words meant, but he could follow the basic idea, enough to be pretty sure they were on the same page. He wasn't jumping to that conclusion, though.

"Ehh, maybe yes, maybe no," he hedged. "It's possible that the Veil will never be repaired, and that the only way this ends is if it breaks down completely. I'm pretty sure that's an end-of-the-world type scenario. But it's also possible, and I think it's more likely, that if we can repair every rift that exists, integrity is restored and new rifts will stop happening."

[youwonscience]

"Back to the surface tension metaphor," she says, with a nod. (Someday, maybe Cosima will stop trying to make magic into science. Today is not that day.) "It sounds like interesting research. I mean, even aside from the whole 'keeping the world from ending' part, which is important too."

[apostafuckyou]

"Like I said, I don't even know what I'm lookin' for," he said, spreading his hands. "But it feels more productive than sleepin' all the time, which is probably what I'd do otherwise."