WHO: GwenaΓ«lle Vauquelin + assorted. WHAT: Sad elfblooded in snow. WHEN: Early Harvestmere. WHERE: Skyhold. NOTES: References to death; likely also to infidelity, substance abuse, general mental instability. Starters in the comments.
It's a reflex; she says it as instinctively and easily as Cullen might draw his sword at a threat, which is. Not an irrelevant comparison, when her shoulders draw in just a little at the question, like it is a threat, somehow. It isn't that she's afraid of him, or uncomfortable with him - it isn't him at all, only a learned response to something inside of her.
It takes her a moment to remember what Morrigan had said, and say, "I think I'm tired of traveling."
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It's a reflex; she says it as instinctively and easily as Cullen might draw his sword at a threat, which is. Not an irrelevant comparison, when her shoulders draw in just a little at the question, like it is a threat, somehow. It isn't that she's afraid of him, or uncomfortable with him - it isn't him at all, only a learned response to something inside of her.
It takes her a moment to remember what Morrigan had said, and say, "I think I'm tired of traveling."
Someone seems to die every time she does it.