[Closed] The Road to Jader ...

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WHO: Bethany Darton, Aleron Darton, Carver Hawke, Fenris, Alistair, and Inessa Serra
WHAT: Looking for the Champion, high and low
WHEN: Mid-Harvestmere
WHERE: The fine Orlesian city of Jader, and small town just outside of Jader.
NOTES: Warnings for ...well. The DA2 Crew. You know how these guys are.

For weeks, Bethany Darton had been searching for some hint of her older sister's whereabouts since she had heard about the demise of the Hero of Fereldan. Her determination only mounting when Carver returned home with Dog, she remembered one of Marian's last letters, sent from a trader in Jader. She rounded up some people who were actually willing to track down Marian again, and as soon as she had returned from the Island of Red Lyrium, she gathered them all up and headed down to the docks as quickly as she could manage it, to Jader itself.

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Bethany let out a sharp breath, clutching the few pieces in her hands to her chest, before she looks over at Carver with the same determined look all three of them shared. Tipping her chin up.

"So - we back-track. Send out ... what was his name, Gilles? To see if our sister passed by near Lothering. Then we hit every contact that Varric's ever introduced to in Kirkwall."

She put her hand on Carter's arm, her dark eyes serious. "Most importantly, we don't give up. We go to the others, and we tell them what's happening, and see if they have any ideas."

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And there she goes, already forming a plan. Marian would be proud.

"Lothering's a start. We might want to have him or someone else check the surrounding areas. If she went to Ferelden, it'll be a harder, longer search, since she could be anywhere." But he hopes it's Ferelden. If she went back to Kirkwall, then, given how long it had been, that more likely meant something had happened. Of course, the possibility exists even if she went to Ferelden, but it's easier to believe otherwise.

Though many of Marian's friends drove him crazy, he knew they would need their help, and they had just as much reason to want to find her. He nods. "Right. If she went back to Kirkwall, she'd likely have taken the same route we took to get here. We need to ask more people along the way back if they remember her. Now we at least have a timeline." Hopefully that could help narrow things down. "No one's giving up, least of all us."

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"Right - we might also want to try Denerim. She might have gone to Queen Anora -- or maybe she ended up back at Skyhold." It had been months since they had all left, after all. She pushed down the sick feeling of worry in her stomach, and smiled up at her brother.

"Definitely not us. We aren't giving up, no way, no how."

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"Maker, we're going to have to scour the entirety of Ferelden at this rate." At least it wasn't Orlais, but still, it'd be no small feat. Maker willing, if she was still in Ferelden, she might catch wind people were looking for her and at least send a damn note. It would be better than nothing at all.

"Whatever she's doing, I hope it's worth all the fuss she's been kicking up." He is SO going to lay into her when he sees her next. (He's refusing to consider IF he sees her again at all.)

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"Honestly, that we have any place to scour at all fills me with relief. Before this it was just - 'Oh she's out there, somewhere. At least now we have a direction." She sighed, looking out across the fields.

"I don't know what is happening -- but I know our sister has been there for us. It is time we were there for her."

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Something of a direction, he supposes. But "between here and Kirkwall" and "possibly the entirety of Ferelden" still doesn't feel like it's been narrowed down much. Maybe in comparison to the entirety of Thedas. Bethany's right, he knows she is. It's simply how they are: she's optimism and brightness, and he's realism and dreariness.

"Hard to be there for her when she's nowhere near us. When we don't know what she's even doing or why she's been gone so long." Does she even know they're looking for her? Does she know what's going on in the world? What's happened?

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And here, as always, is where Bethany and Carver differed. She preferred to look on the brighter side of things while Carver was ... Carver about it. She gave her twin a wry look.

"We know she was looking into red lyrium."

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"It'd be easier to say where that hasn't popped up than where it has." Though he wonders if she ever decided to go back to that thaig where they had found that lyrium idol, the thing that started it all. But that's a thought for a later time.

"Come on, we should let the others know what's happened and see if they learned anything else."