[Open] "Bored."

[seesobserves]

WHO: Sherlock Holmes and Open
WHAT: Working off some steam by way of target practice
WHEN: Early Firstfall
WHERE: Skyhold training grounds
NOTES: Either prose or brackets welcome!

The first arrow seems to land wildly off-course, on the very edge of the target, but the archer who fired it keeps an impassive face while he raises the next one. To anyone who happens to be watching, it's clear this time that he actually is taking aim.

The second arrow hits the entire other edge of the target. Sherlock draws the third, notches it, takes aim.

Thunk. Thunk. Thunk. The arrows fly in more rapid succession as he goes on. While the lines aren't perfect, it soon becomes apparent that instead of aiming for the bulls-eye, he's firing a pattern into the target: specifically, a smiling face.

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[seesobserves]

"The person who hit you was taller than any elf, so you could have been defending the Dalish." The next arrow made a dull, woody thunk as Sherlock yanked it out. He gave the man a definitive glance - yes, I'm talking to you. "Then again, maybe not. There's enough tension surrounding the mages to make them a possibility."

Or it could have been both. But there was really no way to tell that.

[amygdalae]

At least now Bruce could see that he was the one that the man was addressing to. Idly he reached up and touched the fading bruise on his head; the pain had long faded, leaving only the mark, and even that would go away in time.

"It wasn't anything as noble as that," he replied, doing his best to give a smile as he replied. "Somebody I knew was being threatened. I just wanted to prevent anything else from happening." Of course, Pel just happened to be an elf and a mage, but that didn't really factor into why he did it.

[seesobserves]

Semantics. The man had to be equivocating.

"Balance of probability; there's barely any other reason for a person to be threatened around here." Unless — oh, there were Tevinters skulking around here somewhere, weren't there? That could be a reason to stay cagey about it... and just there, Sherlock found he didn't particularly care enough to dig. The information would out eventually, if it had to.

"After all," he went on, with a subtle air of faux-cheeriness, "we're all in this together."

[amygdalae]

There was truth to what the man was saying, but Bruce himself wasn't one to go into the politics of the issue. For him, it didn't matter - all he saw was somebody he knew being unjustly threatened, and tried to help.

Still, he frowned a little at how obvious the fake-cheeriness was, not entirely approving of that. Of course he knew he had no right to really give any opinions, but false words as such never rubbed him the right way. "We're all here to help, regardless of our opinions on several matters." He tried his best to choose his words carefully, wanting to sound as neutral as possible - stepping on toes was never want he wanted to do. "Otherwise we won't even have a place to have our differences on."