( closed. ) fearless was my middle name

[dashing]

WHO: Herian, Sina, Pel & Advisors.
WHAT: interviews and discussion regarding the Diplomacy Disaster.
WHEN: heeeeella backdated to early November, to shortly after the log above.
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES:
1. Content Warning: Reference to capture/violence/torture/death.
2. OOC report | Diplomacy Log | Gwen's prior report (pre-Diplomacy) | Pel's network post (immediately post-Diplomacy)
3. This is a catch all for any related threads. We’re going to split this up initially with one Advisor speaking with one member of the diplomatic team, and then we can just wing it from there if we want to do Advisor or diplomat discussion threads, etc. Feel free to do whatever comes to mind, do starters, roam free majestic broskis.

Upon their return to Skyhold, Herian seeks out a meeting with the Advisors to report on and discuss the mission and how it... went awry. At the earliest possibility, and with their diplomats still recovering, the meeting and interviews begin.

Comments

herian

[stabsbooks]

[ Normally a mission report would suffice - but normally, missions do not result in the burning of an entire Dalish clan. Cassandra says nothing as a runner escorts Herian into her office, pacing back and forth behind her desk with her arms crossed tightly across her chest.

Only when the runner retreats, leaving them alone, does she stop and look at Herian. ]

Tell me what happened.

grammar is optional tbh also cw for disfigurement

[dashing]

( Herian stands, hands behind her back. The ruin of her left ear - carved, lobe to outer shell and then against across the top to form a crude point - is raw and pink, though the healing has been hastened with magic. She bears no weapons, nor the hilt of her spirit blade. She is only herself before the desk of the Seeker, and she is—

not as she would wish to be. Upright and strong, perhaps, but not entirely herself, she feels. She is steady without being steady enough. Her tone is even and careful, respectful, when she speaks. )

From what point should I start? I can speak with clarity of the beginning of the things and our escape, but there was a stretch of time where my consciousness was robbed of me.

[stabsbooks]

[ Herian's mangled ear is difficult to look at, but impossible to ignore. Cassandra does not stare, but nor does she deliberately avert her eyes from the ugly, deliberate point.

The message behind the mutilation is easy enough to guess at. But there can be no assumptions here. And so, ]

Tell me everything that you remember, from beginning to end.

Pel

[mythalenaste]

Pel looks exhausted. She is exhausted. Her face is bruised, her nose broken and swollen, her right hand in a splint and a sling. She's not upset about being here, or being asked to give an account. When something goes so disastrously wrong, it's only natural for the people in authority to make sure they know what happened.

She doesn't speak first, allowing Cullen to start however he pleases.

Sina

[eolasemah]

Though no longer physically wounded, Sina is nonetheless in terrible shape. She was guided here very tenderly by a well-meaning scout, and has since then sat shivering and staring into the distance, speaking to no one. It's doubtful anyone will get much out of her, as she is pretty clearly in considerable emotional distress.