[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.

Comments

[paladingus]

"--Are you fucking kidding me?"

Simon has been uncharacteristically quiet throughout this entire ordeal, even when not forcibly gagged, but this seems to be the breaking point.

"Maker's sack, all that and we canny even get rid of you? I was shot twice and branded for nothing?"

[limier]

Her fingers press to a temple, come away to snap irritated toward Benedict. If she disagrees with Simon's assessment —

Well. Do any of them?

"Details." Curt. They can't assume they aren't still being watched. "If you please."