open | There’s tumbling stone

[arcaneadvisor]

WHO: Morrigan; open
WHAT: Morrigan and Kieran finally arrive in and explore Kirkwall (and Sundermount)
WHEN: Various points in Justinian
WHERE: Kirkwall/Sundermount
NOTES: Let me know if you want a closed starter

A long journey to Kirkwall from Skyhold at the best of times, one made longer for Morrigan's chosen route with Kieran away from the bulk of the Inquisition. An adventure, she had promised him when they had packed up their things again, only you and I, that I promise. On that she had delivered and so she arrives later than much of the rest of the Inquisition because there are times when she's missed this.

Missed it being her and Kieran alone in the world when there wasn't her place in the court, when she hadn't attached herself to Skyhold for over a year now. Time to go through the wilds and take ship elsewhere and wander through towns and villages her son has never seen before. When they do arrive, one of his satchels is filled to bursting with the treasures he has picked up along the way.

Kieran does not like the Gallows, she learns quickly when she makes her way there to settle them both and so he's very rarely far from her side. When she picks up where she left off with her research and another project of her own not meant for the eyes of all the Inquisition, Kieran is busy with his studies. If she plants some of what she had sent from Skyhold ahead of her or from her personal reserves in the gardens, Kieran is helping or playing. If she is exploring the markets and streets then he's close to her side with his eyes alighting on every new thing he might find, the riot of noise and colour and bustle so different to Orlais, the only other place this size he's known.

It's only to Sundermount that she leaves him behind with someone trusted. Sundermount is the shadow of her mouth that looms over her shoulder and over him, the last recorded sighting and for that...for that she cannot bring her son as she slips away from Kirkwall at first light to make the trek up the paths to explore for some clue, any clue of Flemeth's intentions.