Stepping a stone and I'm all gone. [OPEN]

[provenforce]

WHO: Rey and open
WHAT: Rey keeping busy throughout Firstfall and Haring.
WHEN: all throughout this month and next
WHERE: Kirkwall
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i. Rey's Workshop

Since coming to Kirkwall, Rey's taken on a few new responsibilities, mainly the little maintenance things that a lot of other people didn't have time for. In the process she's taken on some other things, and started a few projects of her own. Her "workshop" is in actuality her bedroom, but she's stacked the two beds in the corner and cleared what furniture she wasn't using out completely, leaving as much floor space as possible for whatever she's working on. The desk that's been turned into a workbench is covered as well as the desk she uses for regular purposes.

During the day Rey leaves the door open when she's inside, and anyone looking for her there will find her working on something that looks vaguely like a torture device, piping connecting two tubs with some kind of oil burner sitting off to the side. Padawan lays near the fireplace, dozing on her own bed, but she's quick to pick her head up and perk her ears whenever someone comes close to the door.


ii. Lowtown

"What do you mean, the price has gone up? I just heard you tell that man it was two sovereigns!" Rey gestured after the retreating back of an older man, clearly a servant of some kind. The merchant sneered at her, leaning forward over the table towards Rey, only slightly.

"Honey, you're lucky I'm even doing business with you. You might be hiding your hands now, but you've been around the markets since the Inquisition barged in. I know you're one a them rift people and so do most of the other vendors around here. So the price is five, or you can go try your luck somewhere else." The woman manning the unremarkable little stand finished off with a smug smile that made Rey clench her fists. She wanted to turn around and storm off, but after a moment she exhaled, clearing her thoughts.

She knew Obi-Wan would probably scold her for this, but he wasn't here. She needed the box full of miscellaneous pieces of what might look like junk to some, but looked like things she could use for her Gallows-improving projects. She could ask the requisition agents to track down what she needed, but that would take much longer than she wanted. So as the woman stared at her with a head cocked, Rey focused, feeling the Force around her.

"The price is two sovereigns, because I've been a faithful patron and you appreciate my business," she says evenly. Immediately the woman's disposition changes, and she echoes Rey.

"The price is two sovereigns, because you've been a faithful patron and I appreciate your business." Rey immediately smiles and deposits the gold coins into the woman's outstretched palm, picking the box up off the table.

"Thank you. I hope you let the other merchants know that if they treat us rifters with the same kindness you've shown, we'll do the same." To that the woman smiles, nodding her head.

"Have a nice day, honey."

Rey rolls her eyes and walks off, headed back to the Gallows.

Closed for Kirk

The Gallows may seem larger than Skyhold, but once you get the hang of the twists and turns of the halls, and have made a few choice marks at the intersections, you start to figure out where you're headed. So when Rey wants to seek Kirk out, she's able to find him. There might be some passive use of the Force in her tracking abilities, but it's not something she's entirely aware of, at least not yet.

More likely, she simply knows where Kirk spends his time.

"So I know I've said I'd show you before, but you haven't seen my lightsabers in action yet, have you?" she starts right in when she finds him in preface of a formal greeting, not something she's ever been entirely accustomed to.