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WHO: Bethany Darton nee Hawke, Fenris, Jim Kirk, Inessa Serra, Velenna, Hermione Granger, and whomever else wants to go exploring
WHAT: Book nerds!
WHEN: Last week of Justinian
WHERE: The Kirkwall Library
NOTES: You cannot handle this much nerd.

Bethany was waiting for her little group in front of the Viscount's Palace, and if they happen to get there early they can see her pensive expression as she looks off to the crater where the Chantry once stood. She was, after all, a Fereldan dog who called Kirkwall her home, so every wound here is personal.

Yet as soon as the others appear, her cheer returns, as she excitedly leads them to the Library of Kirkwall, in the lower levels of the Palace. Scholars wander between the tall shelves, but Bethany has an old brass key, and she leads them further down, down, down into the cellars of the library, where crates of books await them. Some are moldy, some are old and falling apart, and some of them are just useless ... but keep looking, you don't know what you might find ...be

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He snorts and takes one of papers, gently unwrapping it so he can start sorting out anything.

"I hope no one truly expected better of him. Want better, of course. But expect? He'll never see anyone else as he's too focused on himself." His opinion of Sebastian was never great to begin with, but the man preached about mages belonging in Circles for their own good after Karl was clear evidence of that being wrong, and acted like he was pure and special because of Andraste. Anders would be glad if word reached them of Sebastian's death.

"Well, we all expect more out of our friends -- and he was a good friend to Marian." Bethany sighed softly, as she went over to help him sort. "Honestly I do not know what we should have expected from him. For a man of the Maker he did not seem very tractable."

"People who claim to be doing the Maker's will often aren't," he replies. "It's a cover. Their actions are of course more excusable if the Maker wants it to happen. Look at Meredith, for instance. Her whole thing was that she was serving the Maker."

It's one of the many reasons he's not a man of faith. The Chantry does not serve man. It serves itself.

Bethany gave him a wry look, "Well, I'm not going to say that of all men and women who serve the Chantry. Some of them were very good people - some of them still are." A long sigh, "Meredith, however, I hope is paying each and every one of her sins. Pride being the foremost.."

She carefully goes through the pile again. She is a woman of faith - it was the only way she got through being a mage in early age.