[Semi-closed] A tisket, a tasket

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, Teren, Kit, Julius, Thranduil, Fern, possibly others
WHAT: Various starters for the month
WHEN: Throughout the month
WHERE: All over Kirkwall
NOTES: Wanna plot something with Anders? Poke me on plurk!

[Cheerful dooting.]

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[justice_is_blond]

"Antiva would be lovely," he says with absolute honesty and just a little wistfulness.

Sure, there are a lot of assassins in that region, and a few might find jobs hunting for him, but there's also a lot of land where he could become a simple healer for a village and happily live like that.

"The wine isn't crucial, especially as my Fereldan likes stuff made from peat for some reason, but it would be another perk. And I'm certainly not eager to live in a country where dogs are glorified."

The smile he gives Julius is full again. Friendliness is a gift that he treasures, and he doesn't care that later, no doubt, they'll be disagreeing on plenty again. Julius sees him as a person and doesn't hate him. That's enough for now.

"Also I hear there are fewer giant spiders in Antiva."

[overharrowed]

"I really do feel like you should hold out for no giant spiders. While we're fantasizing," Julius says, with a crooked little grin.

"Maker, I feel like every odd job I took for years inevitably ended up with them, though. Or wolves. Or bears. There is a lot of truly malicious fauna in Thedas, isn't there?" Or maybe just involved in the kind of jobs Julius got hired for. Not everyone could specialize in healing, after all.

[justice_is_blond]

"If we're fantasizing, there's a great deal further that we can go beyond no giant spiders." Anders' voice is wry. "But that would be a nice start. I can't remember an errand that didn't deal in some sort of fauna that wanted to eat me, and at times the flora wasn't all that friendly either."

He takes a breath.

"Life's never exactly been easy, has it." It's... an opening, if Julius wants it.

[overharrowed]

Anders can practically see Julius' impulse toward a joke.

...but instead, he shrugs. "A lot of people in Thedas end up with a hard lot. It's not even terribly uncommon, from what I've observed." Which is, if not quite as much of an opening, at least not shutting down what was clearly an overture.

[justice_is_blond]

"It could be better." Very, very tentative. "We're out now. We don't have to just offer healing. We can offer so much more. Education. Practical magic. We can make a lot of lives easier, and perhaps set something up that can last. A school, with options. For everyone."

There's a lot of dancing around here. People have lost faith in him, for good reason, and he doesn't know where Julius stands on the scale. High enough to speak with him and eat with him, but that doesn't have to mean much more.

[overharrowed]

Julius' look is mild, but it's skeptical. It's not that he entirely disagrees, though he imagines there are details they would disagree on. It's just that, while longstanding friendship and many people they both care about dying earns Anders a conversation and even some warmth...

...well, the picture Anders offers is somewhat offset by who is offering it, all the same.

Still, despite the skepticism, Julius' tone remains conversational. "Has there been talk about where Inquisition leadership stands on postwar mage relations? Given that they're recruiting both us and templars, I imagine they're treading lightly in public, at least."