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[wythersake]

WHO: Isaac + Lexie, Leander
WHAT: Threads 4 the month
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: just hmu on plurk if you want a starter

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[coquettish_trees]

"Think you that wits and wealth are shackles on those who have none rather than wings on those who do?" Alexandrie asks, her eyebrows lofting gracefully.

[wythersake]

"Consider the falcon," A self-effacing gesture, the quirk of a mouth, "If you'll permit a bit of zoological meandering."

Too much metaphor, and they'll both sink into some ridiculous guessing game. Well. More ridiculous.

"Shackled and winged alike — a bird of uncommon cleverness, and finely-kept for it," If it isn't about mages (about Tevinter), it may as well be. But there are other confines than a tower: If less politically important, more presently relevant. "Kept, the same."

Hooded, blind; talons fettered to another's purpose. He does recall whose walls he scorched.

His glance finds hers: A moment, two, and then they round the corner. There's a sign at the end of the street, the Grizzly Arms. It hangs before a set of steps, themselves vanishing underground. A heavily-tattooed woman loiters outside the entrance.

"Of course it's a sight when they get loose. Whether after the hare," He's heard about the wedding. Merrill, a particularly scandalous choice if one needs to piss on the memory of a would-be Magister. "Or one's eyes."

There are more direct means than scandal. It's lightly-said, might be a joke. Might be.

[coquettish_trees]

"An odd relationship, to be sure. One likes to imagine that the falcon respects its falconer as well as its falconer respects it," or as well as its falconer ought to, "but if it is to be a truly effective hunter it must be as wild as it is tame. I have sometime thought jesses crueler than chains for the brief illusion of freedom the bird enjoys for a few wingbeats."

About the bird, about its 'master'. Little for the hare; it irks her to be thought prey, despite making herself an attractive target.

"It is a rare bird who would fly to the glove a-purpose, rather than being born to it or caught. I should simultaneous cherish it and wonder always why it came. Why it stays."

The woman's tattoos are rather lovely.