He's tired after his mission with Jamie. It had been needed, been important, and Jamie had been just as helpful and trustworthy as expected, but he's tired anyway and filled with the quiet dread that always comes with returning home. Nate will be there, he tells himself like he does every time his feet are on this path, Nate will let Anders hold him and it will be all right for a little bit longer. He pays little heed to the way some people aren't looking at him; that's usual. All he has time for is focusing on the house he shares with Nate.
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2. Closed to Saoirse
He's not drunk, though a part of him wishes he was. He's not heading down to the Deep Roads, though a part of him wishes he was doing that too. He's even not out trying to pick a fight to get his anger and fury out, though almost all of him wishes he was doing that.
Instead, he's sitting in a corner of the excuse for a tavern Ortan Thaig has, keeping an eye out for any familiar face who won't know what's happened, who won't sit down and tell him how sorry they are because he'd like to go just a few minutes without crying. Which is why, when he sees Saoirse, he sends the nearby bartender over to offer her a drink if she comes to join Anders.
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3. Open
He's not doing well. Whether he's distractedly healing, or sitting at a fire staring into space, or dozing off in the chair in his house because he can't stand to use their bed, Anders is lost and it's obvious. Alone isn't something he's been able to deal with since his year in a cell in Kinloch Hold, and for close to two decades it isn't something he's even had to deal with at all.
This makes him fairly easy to find, though. It's even easy enough to find him when he's furiously pouring over maps spread on a table in the room he heals at, muttering about personally ending the life of every agent of Corypheus that still wanders about and draws breath. ...And the ones that don't. Corypheus is the reason his research into dealing with the blight had been broken off, and while no one is truly to blame for the end of Nate's life, Corypheus is the clearest target and Maker how he wants a target.
Orzammar, mostly open
He's tired after his mission with Jamie. It had been needed, been important, and Jamie had been just as helpful and trustworthy as expected, but he's tired anyway and filled with the quiet dread that always comes with returning home. Nate will be there, he tells himself like he does every time his feet are on this path, Nate will let Anders hold him and it will be all right for a little bit longer. He pays little heed to the way some people aren't looking at him; that's usual. All he has time for is focusing on the house he shares with Nate.
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2. Closed to Saoirse
He's not drunk, though a part of him wishes he was. He's not heading down to the Deep Roads, though a part of him wishes he was doing that too. He's even not out trying to pick a fight to get his anger and fury out, though almost all of him wishes he was doing that.
Instead, he's sitting in a corner of the excuse for a tavern Ortan Thaig has, keeping an eye out for any familiar face who won't know what's happened, who won't sit down and tell him how sorry they are because he'd like to go just a few minutes without crying. Which is why, when he sees Saoirse, he sends the nearby bartender over to offer her a drink if she comes to join Anders.
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3. Open
He's not doing well. Whether he's distractedly healing, or sitting at a fire staring into space, or dozing off in the chair in his house because he can't stand to use their bed, Anders is lost and it's obvious. Alone isn't something he's been able to deal with since his year in a cell in Kinloch Hold, and for close to two decades it isn't something he's even had to deal with at all.
This makes him fairly easy to find, though. It's even easy enough to find him when he's furiously pouring over maps spread on a table in the room he heals at, muttering about personally ending the life of every agent of Corypheus that still wanders about and draws breath. ...And the ones that don't. Corypheus is the reason his research into dealing with the blight had been broken off, and while no one is truly to blame for the end of Nate's life, Corypheus is the clearest target and Maker how he wants a target.