This is the road to ruin and we started at the end [OPEN]

[leadseasy]

WHO: Yael Flaar and open to all
WHAT: Yael settles into Skyhold and everything is SCARY!!
WHEN: Kingsway
WHERE: Skyhold
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my heart is like a stallion; shard
This may or may not be where one goes to deal with a shard in their hand. This tall Qunari looks nervous and maybe like she's lost, but she's fidgeting by rubbing her left palm against her stomach.

"Excuse me?" She stopped the nearest person (that's you!), looking nervous and sort of apologetic about it. "I...I'm looking for help with..." She decided to just show them, turning her palm outward so they could see the green particle effect that's been stuck to it light glimmering out of it. "Someone said there was someone I ought to show it to, but I didn't understand the directions they gave me."

She could have been ten feet away, she could have on the wrong side of the castle. She had no way of knowing; have fun with it.

it's not my fault i'm a maniac; training
On the training ground, at least, she looked a little more confident. Anyone who wandered into the further, less-populated corners might find a Qunari in her full armor, short hair knotted back behind her head, shooting arrows into a target placed impressively far away. In fact, eventually, she climbed up onto the wall surrounding the training yard to get even further away, and have to shoot at an angle. Her bow was beautiful, not fancy or ornate in any way, but high-quality and well-made.

we can go back and play pretend; meal or tavern
It never seemed like there was an empty table anywhere in Skyhold. There was always at least one person she'd have to be sitting near enough that it counted as 'sharing space'. Perhaps she was just being late to everything.

That was how, holding her food or drink, a person with an empty seat near them might find themselves addressed by an unexpectedly soft voice. "Is that seat taken?" At least she managed it without stammering.

Comments

[qunari]

"Yeah. They kind of took on the whole Rift problem onto their shoulders, and with the boss gone? Figured it was the best way to keep things going. For her. And the rest of the world too."

He shrugged, as though it still didn't trouble him some days. As if he didn't sometimes wonder where they might be if she'd lived through that encounter with Corypheus.

"If there's going to be an answer, figure it'll come from these folks."

[leadseasy]

Yael tilted her head as she wrapped the leather cord around her wrist, so she couldn't drop it again. She resumed spinning the disc, a little fidget to occupy her hands while her brain worked.

"You were here at the start?" she asked curiously. "With the...the Herald lady?" The Herald had already been dead by the time Yael had heard of the Inquisition, although they'd heard of rifts and the breach before that. The mercenary company she was with didn't tend to pay attention to anything outside their immediate interest.

[qunari]

Bull hummed at that, his expression a little more somber at that. "Yeah. Good woman. Had a feeling nothing was gonna stop her. But none of us were expecting that ancient 'Vint asshole to bring a mountain down on our heads, either. You can't predict this shit."

And whatever he felt about those events was probably never going to see the light of day. Didn't mean he wouldn't discuss it, at least on a superficial level. Kid was curious, why not?

[leadseasy]

"That sounds..." She trailed off, looking for a word, but her face was showing deep apprehension. She'd never been in an avalanche, or anything else that he might have been talking about, and it seemed like something that would take great power to trigger.

"Well, coming here isn't sounding like such a great idea anymore," she admitted softly. "I had to leave my friends in the middle of the night because I knew they'd talk me out of it if I gave them a chance. So I left a letter." Yael knew enough of herself to know that she was weak-willed, and she knew enough of the shards to know she needed the Inquisition, so she'd devised a way. Certain people on her team wouldn't have let her leave their sides willingly.

[qunari]

"Having second thoughts? That's more common than you'd think," Bull replied, not so much as batting his eye. "The Inquisition deals with a lot of crazy shit. It's one thing to hear about it, another to see it all first-hand. But if you're looking for the only people with a hope of taking care of that..."

He nods at her hand.

"You did the right thing. Out of control, those things can do some real damage."

[leadseasy]

Yael nodded, and it seemed she lost a little bit of tension that she hadn't been aware of. It was comforting to hear from an outside source that she'd done the right thing. She didn't really feel great about it, but she'd had to. Someone else agreeing with the decision made her much more confident in it.

"It doesn't hurt as much as it used to. That's probably a good thing, right?"