Not Quite Damsels, Definite Distress

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, Alistair, Zevran, Nathaniel, Teren, Merrill, Ciri, Jamie, Cyril, Velanna
WHAT: Rescuing two princesses who went into the wrong castle
WHEN: Around Haring 10th
WHERE: A village handwavily somewhere around Skyhold, on the Fereldan side of things.
NOTES: Minor violence warnings for now. Signup Post.

Sometimes people vanish. Sometimes there's a trail to follow, and luckily for these two, there's some information about where they were going.

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[doneisdone]

She returns his Look sternly-- listen kid, not everyone knows all about spirits and which ones are good and bad and which of those are where. Teren's feeling a bit gentler than normal, however, so she lets him be aggravated without snapping back.
"How do you know it won't..." she pauses, realizing she's showing her ignorance. At the very least she doesn't sound accusatory when she continues, "...find its way in anyway?" She has more or less lived her life believing, like most of Thedas, that mages are locked away because they can't control themselves as vessels for spirits. She's met plenty of mages who clearly don't fit that description, but Anders is sort of a special case.

[justice_is_blond]

His own look falters in the heat of hers before he's looking down.

"Because it's different. Spirits don't want to come over, across the Veil. Justice was thrown over by a powerful demon working with some of the architect's agents and blood magic. I let... I let him in because it was different from anything else and we thought we could make it work, he was a spirit, the corpse he'd been using was failing, we'd discussed matters and our views were generally similiar, and because we were about to be attacked by Templars who had sworn loyalty to their Grey Warden brethren." Anders sighs heavily.

"I've worked with a spirit as a regular spirit healer before. There was no temptation, no danger. Compassion was a partner, nothing more. She didn't seek to find a way over; she wanted to help from her side of the Veil. The world is far too chaotic for spirits to understand or deal with, and they know this. Which is part of why Justice went... the way he did. He couldn't grasp shades of grey. At all."

[doneisdone]

Teren always looks skeptical when being told something utterly beyond her comprehension, but at the very least she is willing to cede to Anders' expertise on the matter. "I see," she finally concludes, looking off into the middle distance as she deliberates. "...just. Don't get carried away." It's not like he needs to be cautioned, but she is a) recovering from being almost magically murdered AGAIN and b) doing so after having spent days beside herself with panic over his and Alistair's whereabouts. Giving him curt advice is about as close as she ever comes to saying she cares.

[justice_is_blond]

He takes a slow breath. He can't entirely fault her for being nervous about him working with spirits. Few people get a full run down on spirit healing, almost all of them are mages, and it's not like he hasn't been possessed.

"I won't." A beat. "I've people I would do anything to not disappoint, for one thing." He can't let Nate down, and that's a driving force for him beyond how he doesn't ever want something else in his head aside from himself ever again.