[OPEN] Dance of the Herbal Tea Fairy

[eolasemah]

WHO: Sina and you!
WHAT: Deliveries of herbal concoctions, helpfully plucked and dried from our very own Skyhold gardens. Need a tea blend, a potion, a poultice, a pinch of a rare herb for your nefarious research? Surely you've sent word down to the gardens, and the delivery is on its way.
WHEN: Throughout Haring
WHERE: All over Skyhold
NOTES: Just assume you've made the request and say where you are in your reply! Also please feel free to run into her somewhere even if you're not waiting on herbs.

Sina, dressed warmly in her cloak and scarves, with boots too large and gloves with holes for the fingers, traverses Skyhold with a basket of small herbal packets for wherever in the Keep they're needed.

She's too shy to meet eyes with most passersby, and could likely be mistaken as a servant by some if not for her vallaslin and the green glow emanating from her sternum, even beneath the scarves. But now is the time to be brave and make herself useful, with a hopeful side-effect of meeting more of Skyhold's populace.

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[eolasemah]

Sina nodded, a bit glumly. She had learned that when helping Pel investigate the veilfire, but it seemed no one had been able to glean much beyond it. "If there's any way I can help," she offered, lifting her eyes to meet Adelaide's with a small but earnest smile. "Pel knows. She's sharing her research with me."

[fleurdesel]

"Perhaps- as they are so closely connected to the fade you might keep a journal of your dreams? To see if they are any better or worse on days that it troubles you- or if they are any different from the dreams you had before." As a mage she was already at risk enough, but perhaps what they could not find on this side? Sina might find on the other.

[eolasemah]

After considering this a moment, Sina nodded, her expression pensive. "I will try," she said, her smile widening slightly.

[fleurdesel]

"Taking note of what is happening whenever it flares up, even if there are no rifts or veilfire around at the time, would also be of great help not only to us, but to you you as well." She squeezed Sina's hand lightly before withdrawing it. "We will find answers."

[eolasemah]

Sina squeezed back, and withdrew her own hand uncertainly. "I'll do my best," she said, with a definitive nod. "In the interest of knowledge, if nothing else." She smiled softly.

[fleurdesel]

"In the interest of your own health as well, I hope. Ah- Roul." Adelaide waves over a slim young man, taking the tray as he dips a quick bow to both her and Sina before heading back out. Someone must mind the younger apprentices.

"Tea, shortbread, and jam." Blackcurrant Jam, wherever he'd found this? Adelaide can't say.

[eolasemah]

"Of course," Sina agreed, but seemed a bit more tired when she said it. She was tempted by the treats laid out for them, however, and it seemed to bring her spirits back up. "..may I?"

[fleurdesel]

"Yes, of course." Adelaide stirred a bit of the jam into her tea, but left the first selection of the other snacks for Sina to choose. Doing otherwise would make a poor hostess of her indeed.

[eolasemah]

Sina helped herself to a piece of shortbread, on which she spread the jam. It wasn't something she was used to eating, but she had acquired a taste for the sort of sweets humans enjoyed and was now certain she could never go back to the way things were.

"Ma serannas," she said with a bashful smile.

[fleurdesel]

"You are most welcome, Sina." She offered a smile, content to sip her tea in quiet, calm company. It would give Sina time to rest and them both a short while where they are not worrying after herbs, the garden, or mages.