[closed] tiptoe through the tulips

[altusimperius]

WHO: Benedict, Wren, James, Simon, Hanzo, some new friends
WHAT: The time has finally come to return Benedict to his people. Something maybe goes a little bit wrong.
WHEN: Early Bloomingtide
WHERE: southern Tevinter
NOTES: Warnings for violence.

Three Templars, a magister's son, and a Shimada cross the border from Hasmal to the Tevinter Imperium: it sounds like a joke, and in many ways it probably is, but to Benedict it just seems like overkill.
His mother requested the Templars, ostensibly for protection against the southern apostates driven mad by their little war; Hanzo, a man whose name he recognizes but is too young to properly remember, presumably tagged along for the practical benefits of visiting Minrathous without the Inquisition's grandeur.

Magister Calpurnia Artemaeus awaits them at the family home, and all they have to do is get there. Surely the nightmare will soon be over.

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[eruit]

Hanzo is sure there is a list, somewhere. He might add his own name.

Thankfully, years of dealing with a younger brother - no matter how long ago that might have been - has made Hanzo somewhat adept at ignoring irritating needling and painfully frustrating nudging and teasing. If there are any memories of Genji he clings to it is those - from a time before their family had come between them.

"My reasons are my own. They have nothing to do with you."

[altusimperius]

"You'll find that this whole excursion has to do with me," Bene cheerfully corrects him, "and I think you're hiding something. Perhaps you're embarrassed to be seen by your family, so you're going along anonymously and hoping for a little taste of that Tevinter finery without having to crawl back to them.

[eruit]

"You are secondary." At least as far as Hanzo's concerned. As for the rest... He has no desire to see any member of his family and the very idea makes him laugh, a low, cool chuckle. "I have no family."