Player Plot: The Big One?

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WHO: Korrin, Araceli, Samouel, Kirk, Christine, Tim Gutterson, The Outsider, Iskandar, Kain (the last thread is open to anyone)
WHAT: Nuggalope shenanigans
WHEN: Any time in the latter portion of Harvestmere
WHERE: In the northern Frostbacks, near Honey Badger Hold.
NOTES: As mentioned here in the OOC comm.

 

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[Maybe it can't be done, but from Korrin's expression, she's still stubborn enough to try. Maybe ordinary furs won't be enough, but that will just make her turn to more outlandish ideas. Time will tell if they bear fruit.

At mention of Mal, she just sighs and shakes her head.]

No, he was really vague about it and I haven't heard a peep since. It'd unnerve me if he didn't have people with him, but even so--stubborn asshole. [Mulling over Araceli's words, she manages a small but warm smile.] That's very true. Tama and my parents and Shokrakar are always with me in that sense...and Mal, too. I just don't understand why we couldn't help each other together, why he had to do it alone. But as long as he comes back in one piece, I'll try not to yell at him about it too much.

How is your leg now? Want me to keep going? [Korrin's fine with doing so, but it doesn't hurt to check in.]

[foxsays]

There are many reasons that I don't like men so much, that? That is one of them. [Almost all women Araceli can take to immediately but men she's warier around, watching their tells with her unless they remind her of her father or her many 'uncles' but such men in Thedas are few and far between.] But sometimes I would go to be alone down where they left the wrecked ships to be reclaimed, and only if some terrible calamity had befallen would anyone come fetch me, it was my time to think, to be alone and at peace. There's a place on the rooftops in Skyhold that I think only Sister Nightingale and her ravens could ever find me at if they had need of me. [Denied to her during recovery and even now, so maybe that makes some sense as to why she was so anxious to get up, to get away.] Sometimes...sometimes you need to be alone. If you even see a person you think you'll scream and scream and scream, that it might not stop.

[Araceli's over that but no one died. If someone had? If it had been someone she cared about? Who knows.]

[Maybe it can't be done, but from Korrin's expression, she's still stubborn enough to try. Maybe ordinary furs won't be enough, but that will just make her turn to more outlandish ideas. Time will tell if they bear fruit.

You can stop, I don't want it to fall asleep when I need to walk to wherever we're sleeping. [And yes she's going to walk in front of strangers, it'd hurt her pride if she didn't.]

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[And Korrin, having pride of her own, wouldn't think to stop her.]

Alright, but if you change your might about that hand, let me know. Think I might borrow the other one? All this mountain air is making the bases of my horns itch something fierce. I should still have enough balm with me.

[She moves to check her stash, talking as she does so.]

Mal's a good guy, all this just hurt him badly. He'll come back when he comes back and I know I can't push it.

[Looking up briefly, she darts a sympathetic half-smile at Araceli.]

I wish I could take you up to that rooftop spot, kadan, but I'd do more harm than good there. In the meantime, I promise I won't begrudge you needing the room to yourself for a while or whatever else you think would help. I don't have any one spot, personally, but that's what those sudden hunting trips are for. [It's less about bringing down game or hostile beasts than it is a chance to move about on her own, without worrying about obligations for just a little while.]

[foxsays]

Sit. [Carefully swinging her leg down so it doesn't fall asleep, she taps her foot on the ground so Korrin can come sit in front of her between her knees.] Put it by the fire for a minute first, I won't have to work it so much.

With a shard in his hand-- [Maybe that's unfair but Araceli went through that, and it wasn't just rifters who suffered as evidence by the natives tortured alongside them. Mal might be a mercenary but the Venatori are hunting too.

So she sighs, pushes it all out of her lungs as carefully as she can. Walls make her feel hemmed in, and the gardens are a reminder of how far she is from everything familiar; why everyone kept asking her if she wanted to go there is beyond her. People that didn't know her, fine, but anyone that did and she wanted to scream at them. Still does sometimes. Three words taunt her from places she can't shoot them down, always out of reach.] If I go anywhere I'll leave a note, or I'll send Lux if I think I'll be gone long.

[Because she's not going to admitting she's made her painstaking huffing way to hide with the Kestrels because people might suspect, but no one has a shred of proof. She'd like to keep it that way, a little freedom in her pocket.]

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[Withdrawing the horn balm, Korrin places it by the fire as directed and sits down. Though since Araceli won't be working on her horns just yet, she turns to face her. Mention of Mal's shard brings out a spike of worry, and glances down to her sending crystal. She's done her best to give him space, hard as that is, but Araceli makes a very good point, one that she can't ignore.]

...I'll try to leave him a message, warn him. It's only fair.

[The thought of him in Venatori hands, losing him as well as Asher--no, she can't go there. It hurts too much just thinking about it, so she just draws in a breath and focuses on the present, flashing a smile at her love.]

Thanks, kadan. As long as I know you're alright and not struggling somewhere, that's good enough for me.

good stopping point?

[foxsays]

[Nodding, she sighs quietly because she made it sad again when it wasn't, made the air tense and wrong but it's something to consider, something real and sharp. Mal won't know about it but since they can reach him? They should at least tell him so he doesn't wander into some sort of ambush like they did, and so he can pass on a warning if he meets any shardbearers like himself along the way.]

It should be warm enough now. Go fetch it and relax. You can fall asleep here for a while if you like, I'll wake you before we have to turn in wherever they're putting us up.

\o/

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[And that gets a warm smile from Korrin, who hands it over.] A fireside nap with my kadan beside me? How could I refuse?

[With a content sigh, she relaxes and tilts her head up carefully, content to be spoiled in turn.]