[ OPEN ] Take a Break

[fleurdesel]

WHO: Adelaide & The Healers of the Inquisition & friends
WHAT: Informal gathering, refreshments offered.
WHEN: nowish
WHERE: Skyhold, Orlesian Healing Tents
NOTES: Drinking, swearing, bitching about troublesome patients, etc. Announcement post here

It has been a difficult few months for the Inquisition- terrible battles, dangerous missions, strange illnesses. The Healers are well overdue a moment of semi-organized rest and relaxation. Much as she had before on behalf of the mages nearly a year ago, Adelaide takes the time to arrange for said respite. The Orlesian healing tents have been cleared of the potions, bandages, and poultices in favor of chairs, cushions, and braziers. Lanterns and the odd throw of fur or knit wool warm the space. Having more time to settle in and become established- there is more room, more places to sit, more tables propped up for holding glasses and mugs. The space is open, warm, and inviting with an elegant assortment of copper mugs and porcelain cups set around flat side tables arranged with an assortment of teas, honey, and small pots of cubed sugar and carafes of cream bribed from the kitchen. To one side there are bottles of wine and a small keg or two of ale and mead, tankards and glasses waiting. There are dried fruits and hard cheeses, dried meat and hard crusted bread, butter and sausage and a few odd baked tarts here and there. Across the entrance to the tents there is a sign:

Must be a healer or a friend of a healer for entry. Unless urgent (imminent death) no patients will be taken at this time.

Tacked below was a list of rules:

• NO WORKING
• Tea and coffee are to the left, wine on the right, food in the center. Please keep things in their proper place.
• Don't hog the wine
• Don't hog the tea
• Don't hog the coffee
• Don't hog the food
• Serve yourself and whoever else is waiting for a glass
• If you finish a bottle open a new one, don't recork it for someone else to find
• Brew a fresh pot of coffee or tea when you finish what is available
• Clean up after yourselves

Comments

[madame_de_fer]

Madame de Fer is no healer, but she feels quite obliged to attend regardless. But in her coming, it is with gift in hand: a singular bottle of her Rowan's Rose. It is the last in her private collection of little luxuries brought with her on her journey to Skyhold. And something that Adelaide truly deserves for organizing this.

There are no attempts to disguise Vivienne's taking an appraisal of Adelaide's outward health and vitality. It's all too well known the woman works herself into the ground, though mercifully she's the sense to take time for herself, unlike others she can name. (Looking at you, Cassandra and Cullen.)

On the way over, she does take the time to pause and greet some of Adelaide's students, offering bits of praise and admiration for their efforts. They are turning into such fine mages. A far more promising prospect for the future than where they all were a year ago. She's done well by them.

Their teacher and guardian receives the warmest of smiles. "My dear, have I told you what an absolute treasure you are?"