I'm Not The Moon (Open)

[youwonscience]

WHO: Cosima, Avery AND YOU
WHAT: Open log of goodbye to all that Skyhold; in which Avery may or may not try to help get Cosima a quality one-night stand and in which there will definitely be drinking
WHEN: Backdated to before the move (forgive my hiatus)
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: No warnings to start, but Cosima is fresh off TTT, so if you want a less shiny happy thread, those are also on the table.

Behind closed doors, Cosima had said very evenly that she needed to hug Avery once, and to please just let it happen. She was, in some ways, less shaken up than she'd been after getting captured by the Venatori; the things that had happened to her, specifically, hadn't been as bad by pretty much any measure. But seeing a future-that-might-be ... it had been enough to shake her up.

But that had been in private, and before they left Skyhold behind, Cosima was determined to enjoy herself a little. ("What would Ruby do?" she'd enthusiastically pointed out to her roommate when attempting to sell the idea of a night out.) Cosima had officially thrown her lot in with the Inquisition, was committed to making sure the future she saw didn't come to pass. But the world wasn't going to go to shit in one night -- probably -- and she wanted to dance and drink and flirt with someone.

(She wanted to look over and see Avery, right there and fine and looking mildly annoyed but not leaving her either.)

So a trip to the tavern seems well in order. Cosima's going to be enthusiastically greeting her friends from the start. She might be enthusiastically greeting glancing acquaintances later too, depending on how the drinking goes.

Comments

[youwonscience]

"I do, yeah. It's pushing right at the edge of what we know, I like the thought I might expand human knowledge one day. And my work has the potential to help people too, depending on how it's applied." A different woman might have possibly listed those two factors in a different order.

"What about you? You said your business took you to Kirkwall before, but you didn't say what you do."

[bloodredcrow]

A different woman might have cared more about the order they were presented to her in. Natasha is not a big fan of helping people just for the sake of helping. She doesn't see the profit in it. "It sounds very important." No one wants to hear that she doesn't care about what they do. "More important than what I do. People have problems, and I fix them. It's boring. Unlike the city, which I still think you might enjoy."

She takes a sip of her wine, licks her upper lip. "What about hobbies?"

[youwonscience]

Cosima, about to protest that 'fixing people's problems' could cover a wide range of tasks, both important and unimportant, instead pauses to consider the question.

"Back home, I guess I'm a little bit of a workaholic? I mean, I like socializing - I date, I hang out with my friends, we drink and play games. And I read. But I like my work, I devote a lot of time to it. And, uh, family stuff, I guess. I have a few sisters," a massive understatement meant to avoid the complication of the truth, "and we tend to be over-involved in each other's business."

[bloodredcrow]

Natasha's fixing of people's problems almost always involves simply eliminating the problem, and that problem often lives and breathes. Until she gets to them.

So she doesn't touch on that.

"That's normal, isn't it? With siblings. Especially with sisters." She doesn't actually know, but she figures. She has observed a lot of normal societal interaction, even if she hasn't actually been a part of it.

[youwonscience]

"Yeah, I guess so. I'm still -- I was still adjusting, because we were separated as kids, so we didn't meet each other until we were already adults. I grew up thinking I was only child." She takes a sip of her wine. "What about you? Family?"