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WHO: Merrill and open
WHAT: Merrill has freshly arrived and is already lost.
WHEN: Mid-Haring
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: c:

[ If anyone has made a map of Skyhold, no one's shown Merrill -- of course, she is rather freshly arrived, having come in during the night with a group of alienage elves. Most were from Kirkwall, but a few had joined up as they traveled from other locations, and all are glad to be off the road and out of the snow. She's spent most of her time getting them settled, trying to prove to whoever asks that yes, they do really all want to join and can be useful. She's mentioned Hawke and Varric more than is perhaps strictly necessary. But if it works, if it helps her people (elves, even though they're not Dalish; her new clan, her found clan), then Merrill is willing to do it.

That's why she had gone looking for the library in the first place. She doesn't appear to have found it, though; she may be in the kitchen, the pub, someone's bedroom, an office, yet another airing cupboard... basically anywhere but the library. And she is completely, utterly lost. ]

Oh, I do wish I hadn't lost that ball of twine...

[ Her sincerest apologies if she's interrupting something, really. ]

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How much time do you have?

[The question comes along with a slightly raised brow, as he knows full well that he could go on for hours about Scotland if given a chance. Merrill wouldn't know that, of course, but if he's going to get started it wouldn't hurt to have an idea if she's got time for a full ramble or not. Even without knowing, though, he does plan on explaining just a little, and he's quick to expand on that question somewhat.]

I can tell you a fair amount about both, you know. But I can't promise I'd be quick about it, and if you've only a little bit I can try not to get into too much detail about the mountains and the lochs and the moors. Or the heather, for that matter. No griffons there, though, I'm afraid- although since you do mention it, Feathers does make sense for one, now that I think about it.

Oh, I'm not in a hurry. I'm not actually sure what it is I should be doing now that I'm here, which is why I was looking for the library. But it'll still be here later!

[ Even if 'later' becomes 'tomorrow'. ]

If you don't mind talking about it, then I certainly don't mind listening, no matter how long it takes! I imagine you have to do a lot of listening about this world, instead of talking about your own.

The library? Aye, well, you've gone a bit out of the way if you're going there, I think.

[Her next comment actually gets a chuckle out of him before he reaches up and scratches at his ear a touch sheepishly.]

Ah, there's things about my world that aren't so easy to explain anyway, although you're not wrong. There's a lot to find out about this place, and I don't think I've even gotten half of it. I've heard some of those books in the library might help, but...

[He breaks off, and shrugs lightly.]

Tell you what, though, if you want we could head over there together and I could tell you some of the things that aren't so complicated on the way, since I don't mind talking about it.

I get lost rather easily, [ Merrill explains, a bit sheepish herself. ]

I can answer any questions you might have, too! Or, well, I can try. Maybe not all today, but I'd like learning about your world and I imagine you at least want to not be caught off-guard, hm?

[ In other words- that's a yes. A jumbled, eager to help, eager to learn mess of a yes, but a yes. ]

Och, there's not anything you'll have to worry about with me, then. I know my way around here just fine.

[Alright, so he gets a bit turned around sometimes. But it should still be easy enough to get them to the library, as far as he's concerned, and that confidence carries both into his tone and his bearing as he heads towards the door.]

Although you're right, I'd not mind not knowing more about this place in general. It's...well, I've gotten the idea it's a fairly big place, but some of it does remind me a bit of what it was like back home, when I was growing up. Small villages near mountains and the like. The Highlands are made up of a lot of those. The view from them's quite nice, if you don't mind a bit of a climb.

Oh, good!

[ She takes him at her word, and if proven wrong later- well, she won't mind. ]

Definitely quite large, yes. There should be maps, somewhere! Though I am glad it's not all too strange, though I suppose that could make what is different feel even more so.

Did the Highlands get this much snow, too?

Sometimes, in the winter. There's more in the mountains, though.

[That part of things is normal enough in a lot of places that normally it doesn't even register with him unless it's unusually cold and he has to wear extra layers. Then he complains about it, but he doesn't feel much like complaining right now. Instead, he gives her a smile before crossing over towards a set of stairs that leads up, and to what he thinks is the general direction of the library.]

It's much prettier late in the summer, when the heather is in bloom. If you're up high enough it looks like a carpet of flowers, all pink and purple mixed in with the green.

So this much in the mountains, then?

[ Merrill giggles, but it's all a friendly tease -- after all, it can be easy while inside Skyhold to forget that it's more or less in the middle of nowhere in the Frostbacks. ]

Oh, that does sound lovely. Are there trees as well?

[And Jamie mock-pulls a face for a second or two, but winds up smiling and giving her a shrug of his shoulders, acknowledging that it's a tease and he's actually not at all upset by the teasing. There's times where he might get temporarily cranky over it, but for some reason it's hard to do that for real with Merrill.]

Aye. There's forests, too, and lochs -- or lakes, if you like -- depending on where you go. I know of one in the middle of one of the forests, called "Loch an Eilein", which doesn't sound quite so interesting in English. Or, er, whatever it is we're speaking here. I'm still not so clear on that part.

we're not lost! we're on an adventure!

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sorry this is so late. :c

psh you're fine

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cry my turn to apologize

no worries! it's all good.

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