[open] we sit and grow our roots into the floor

[onlyhymns]

WHO: Cade and his many friends and admirers
WHAT: a dumb sulky baby got hurt at the Winter Palace because he was dumb and now he is sulking about it
WHEN: post-Halamshiral, simultaneous with red lyrium plot hell
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Injury stuff, nothing ridiculous



The Healing Tents

For the umpteenth time in the span of two years, Cade is under supervision. But this time it's not because he was violent-- well... it was, but indirectly-- it's because he got a couple spikes of red lyrium through the thigh after flipping out and battling Red Templars completely unarmored in the Winter Palace.
He ingested red lyrium once before, and from what anyone can tell it caused him to smack an elf. This is a lot more of the stuff, and Cade is notoriously unstable, so he's being watched to make sure it doesn't alter his personality.

He's the first to reassure the healers that lyrium doesn't work like that, you have to take it daily and it slowly builds up in you and so forth, but, you know, caution is caution. He respects it. But he hates being fussed over, so periodically he'll sneak off a small ways just to have a bit of solitude.


Near the Healing Tents, Being a Renegade

Usually this means sitting up on the ramparts and watching people, reading, anything that gets him a little peace and quiet. For someone who seems to thrive on being told what to do, no one can tell Cade what to do and he will be stubborn for as long as it takes for him to be deemed Safe again.

This is pointless.


Choose Your Own Adventure

Whatever else! Hit me up if you want a specific scene, or just start one here and I will accede to your whims.

Comments

[arlathvhen]

He definitely does not look natural right now, because Beleth looks more distressed as he worries over it, pulling back from him and starting to wring her hands.

"Cade, I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't want you to get worried about it. I just--" She shifts, looking more distressed than the situation probably warrants, but. That's not that unusual for her. "--You look fine, Cade. Your face is fine." She reaches over, and pats him on the cheek. Look, you're fine, please stop freaking out because you're making me freak out.

[onlyhymns]

Now she's freaking out and it's freaking him out more. Is she nervous because he's making her nervous? He has that effect on people, he makes them n--
His thoughts screech to a halt when Beleth touches his face, and he stares at her, dumbfounded. It's not that it would be that surprising of a moment for someone who's touched more often, or even who's spent more time around Beleth, but in the confusion of the moment he has no idea what to do.
Processing...
Processing...

[arlathvhen]

Oh, no. She broke him. Again. This is probably a new record for them.

"Cade...?" Hesitantly, she pokes him in the cheek, like there's a switch there that can turn him back to normal. Immediately realizing that's a stupid idea, she elects to withdraw her hand entirely, settling it back on her lap. "...Are you okay?" That's a stupid question, because he obviously isn't, and she's not sure if she's ever known him to be.

"Can you just--tell me how to make you not upset." Because, clearly, she's incompetent on her own.

[onlyhymns]

"I don't know," Cade says quickly, flinching after she pokes his cheek, "I'm fine. I'm fine." If he could tell her how to not make him upset, he would tell everyone, and then either not be upset anymore or be upset always.
"Sorry," he adds.

[arlathvhen]

"Cade--" She wants to press him, tell him he's clearly not fine, and how does he not know what upsets him? How is she supposed to not upset him if he can't even tell her? But Beleth does learn from her mistakes, or she tries to.

"You didn't do anything wrong. I'm not upset at you." She pauses, staring at her lap thoughtfully. "I just don't want to make you upset." She glances back up at him. "Your face is fine, Cade. I like it how it is."