[Closed] A perfect storm

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, established-CR people; poke me on plurk or in Discord for a top level if you'd like!
WHAT: A pair of triggers collide and fuck up Anders
WHEN: Early Guardian
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Panic attacks, possible talk of trauma in the past, related issues, dark thoughts

He'd run from being locked up seven times, knowing that the seventh was a death sentence, and been willing to go in alone to what seemed likely to be a lethal trap (and was) to try to destroy his phylactery. With both of them, life like that wasn't worth it.

Now both are back. He's held again, in a Circle, his phylactery is being messed with, and on top of that he can't heal in Darktown so he can do even less than he could in Kirkwall seven years ago.

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[justice_is_blond]

"Kostos and Nell?" It's repeated with a little incredulity. Kostos, okay, he can wrap his head around that one. But Nell? That's disquieting. How much would she sacrifice to get whatever her end goal is, when she's willing to establish a precedent of quarantine with no backing? There's no spread, no risk, no reason to hold anyone here other than the ill but she voted for this? It will make her look better politically, but where does that line get drawn? He's got some thinking to do later. Much later. When there's time. In fifty years.

"And people are fine when the Chantry used blood magic." There's a little bitterness there, and he shakes his head. He needs to track down his phylactery. It's a constant itch under his skin. "I'm not saying I'm going to use it, there's precedent enough to think that blood mages can't heal well and I'd not sacrifice that for anything, but those people can stuff it where the Maker doesn't shine. And they can stuff their assumptions that studying the body is a pathway to demons."

He leans in to take a closer look at the sketches, nodding. "It's a good study. I generally go by feel, what I know feels right in a healthy body versus what I'm sensing with magic, but detailed sketches would be good for those who can't learn one-on-one with an expert for years. Have you found any differences between Rifter bodies, generally speaking, and native bodies?" He hasn't. Specifics, sure, Cosima's sick, things like that, but he's healed a bunch of Rifters and not felt things that were surprising. Any sort of difference might help with finding a cure, he feels... but he's also open to a great many things helping find a cure as nothing usual is working.