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𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞. ([personal profile] elegiaque) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2018-07-25 11:22 pm (UTC)

Droll in expression, Gwenaëlle turns her bare left hand palm up for him; the dull green of her anchor-shard a wrong note that explains itself. “Absolutely fucking nothing,” she proposes, mock bright. “Unfortunately, my personal concerns haven't had much to do with where I spend the bulk of my time for the better part of the last three years. As a guest of the Inquisition,”

guest, yes, and she says it so dryly but she knows the difference between prisoners and the situation with the anchor-shards well enough by now,

“I've been obliged to find my own occupation.”

Propaganda, for instance, but there have been many months between now and that last dramatic send-off. She doesn't have the look of a young woman at a loose end, precisely, and if it were all as simple as that then she might not be as easy with his unexpected company.

Fastidious correctness obligates her, though: “I didn't agree with everything I felt it was necessary to write.” The Dalish can fuck off, for a start. And then, because it's still not that simple, “At the time,” a concession to some of the opinions espoused that she did, in fact, come around to.

Like, rifters might be people.

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