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[eruit]

WHO: Hanzo Shimada and Adalia
WHAT: Assigned roommates finally meet
WHEN: After the Tevinter party
WHERE: Their room!
NOTES: Dragons. Multiple.

The party had been trying for Hanzo, especially given how deep in the society of Tevinter they had been dragged. The parties were like all the kinds that he had been expected to attend when had been a part of the family, when he had introduced himself as Hanzo Shimada as though it meant something. It had been almost intolerable, a heavy weight on him as he blended into the background, used the darkness of his outfit and his training...

As soon as it seems suitable for him to leave he does. He's done his duty and spoken to a few people - he has been social, he has been polite, he has done everything that was proper for him to do from the standpoint of the Inquisition. Even now he knows that there's not much more he could do without putting himself out on the line and making himself feel even more uncomfortable.

Self-exile had been easy when he hadn't been looking at everything he had given up, when he hadn't been faced with the world he had left behind.

Hanzo misses Tevinter. He misses his home. He doesn't miss his family, doesn't miss the rules, the pain, the knowledge of what he was doing to the spirits that, even now, he can feel close to him, but this? The splendour, the warmth, the...

He steps into his room and stops dead, hand ready to undo the belt around his waist, staring at the dragon in his room.

"... What?"