"...That's...volatile stuff, isn't it?" What he'd read on Reavers is slowly coming back to him and painting quite the (overwrought?) picture. But an exciting one, certainly. "I'd--oh. Had. I take it he's not around to meet any longer."
So goes the world, of course, especially recently, but it's never pleasant to be reminded.
...Veil tears and red lyrium. He matches Korrin's shudder in unconscious sympathy. "Glad I wasn't here for that; I don't envy you any of it. No wonder you stay away." The thought of any of that coming back all of a sudden is enough to make him consider, maybe, a little, other housing options.
Buuut that would put him rather far from the majority of the people he's interested in meeting and require learning the city, besides, and somehow he doesn't think the people of Kirkwall would be quite so calm about a mage putting glyphs everywhere to find his way back home.
"--And she's more like a Circle mage, you say?" That sounds... absolutely opportune; neither Petrana nor Sarkan had seemed particularly academic in their focus, though they clearly knew what they were about with magic. Having a rifter who came to spellwork after the fashion of the Circles presents so many opportunities for comparison studies. "Right. I'll haunt the library until I find her, then. Maybe let her know I'm looking for her if you see her before I do." (Not that he'd ever see her, but shh.)
"Although on that note, I wouldn't mind sitting down and talking magic with you, either, sometime. What've you focused on?" If he thinks of it as an academic problem, her being apostate is manageable. So he'll keep it framed that way and not panic.
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So goes the world, of course, especially recently, but it's never pleasant to be reminded.
...Veil tears and red lyrium. He matches Korrin's shudder in unconscious sympathy. "Glad I wasn't here for that; I don't envy you any of it. No wonder you stay away." The thought of any of that coming back all of a sudden is enough to make him consider, maybe, a little, other housing options.
Buuut that would put him rather far from the majority of the people he's interested in meeting and require learning the city, besides, and somehow he doesn't think the people of Kirkwall would be quite so calm about a mage putting glyphs everywhere to find his way back home.
"--And she's more like a Circle mage, you say?" That sounds... absolutely opportune; neither Petrana nor Sarkan had seemed particularly academic in their focus, though they clearly knew what they were about with magic. Having a rifter who came to spellwork after the fashion of the Circles presents so many opportunities for comparison studies. "Right. I'll haunt the library until I find her, then. Maybe let her know I'm looking for her if you see her before I do." (
Not that he'd ever see her, but shh.)"Although on that note, I wouldn't mind sitting down and talking magic with you, either, sometime. What've you focused on?" If he thinks of it as an academic problem, her being apostate is manageable. So he'll keep it framed that way and not panic.