WHO: Coupe + Gervais, Yseult, Lakshmi, Teren WHAT: Back 2 Kirkwall WHEN: Now-ish, some prompts backdated WHERE: Kirkwall/Vaguely Orlais NOTES: HMU on plurk if you want something.
[ she says after a moment, a thoughtful pause that will not seem unusual the more they speak like this ]
to know and care for right and wrong but also see the spectrum in between, the strange forms they can take. To admit to nothing but black and white is childish, but so is claiming all is equally grey. I don't know which does more harm.
The Ambassador has lasted this long. Luck, or has she learned?
[ which is more than she's generally wiling to credit herian where it might be repeated (stories their own reluctant endorsement). luck, that she'd a sword to learn by.
wren presses a crease into the page. a pause, eyes slipping shut. doesn't yet reach for the next. idly, ]
You must have few lessons left.
[ yseult's been lucky enough to — by the looks of it — get hit with every hammer on the field. ]
[ a huff of a laugh, dry. she is too old for this shit. ]
I was certain I'd learned this one already.
[ magic may smooth away any scars that might someday cause a mark to grow suspicious, but you don't last this long in her business without earning a handful, or without minding their teachings all the same. still, there are things they don't cover: ]
Though I can't say I've ever been in a pitched battle like that before.
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[ she says after a moment, a thoughtful pause that will not seem unusual the more they speak like this ]
to know and care for right and wrong but also see the spectrum in between, the strange forms they can take. To admit to nothing but black and white is childish, but so is claiming all is equally grey. I don't know which does more harm.
The Ambassador has lasted this long. Luck, or has she learned?
no subject
[ which is more than she's generally wiling to credit herian where it might be repeated (stories their own reluctant endorsement). luck, that she'd a sword to learn by.
wren presses a crease into the page. a pause, eyes slipping shut. doesn't yet reach for the next. idly, ]
You must have few lessons left.
[ yseult's been lucky enough to — by the looks of it — get hit with every hammer on the field. ]
no subject
I was certain I'd learned this one already.
[ magic may smooth away any scars that might someday cause a mark to grow suspicious, but you don't last this long in her business without earning a handful, or without minding their teachings all the same. still, there are things they don't cover: ]
Though I can't say I've ever been in a pitched battle like that before.