[Closed] Got A Light?

[sulahnan]

WHO: Athessa, Leander, Colin?, Benedict??
WHAT: Walking the parapet aka trying to get that cigarette case
WHEN: the days before Satinalia
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: following this plan, loosely

Despite all the planning, plotting, scheming that's been happening, when Athessa comes across Leander on the ramparts of the Gallows, it actually is by happenstance alone and not because she was looking for him.

The unfortunate part of this is that it means she's not as prepared as she'd like to be, but maybe that's a blessing in disguise. Maybe that's the elfroot talking. If elfroot could talk, what would it say?

"See any red birds?" She asks, the game they played while traveling a while back well remembered.

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[sulahnan]

"Nice to meet you, Extremely Good At Hiding Things, I'm Extremely Bad At Lying," she chuckles and dismisses her own words with a wave. Yeah, so the chances of getting caught are pretty good, but-- "At least it'll be arrest via Riftwatch and not the city guard."

Even though they had just posited the question of whether or not they can trust their organization, when they'd stoop to such measures to bring in someone who is clearly more fool than felon, Athessa can't bring herself to look on Riftwatch through the same veil she sees Kirkwall's officials. If Riftwatch were corrupt, then they'd have something to worry about. As it is, one of the Division heads is...an elf, of sorts. And mages are treated fairly, as far as she can tell. The Gallows isn't Kirkwall, and Riftwatch isn't the group of enforcers whose hands delivered her into such lasting pain.

That storm cloud passes over her as soon as it appears, and her voice rises to just shy of her very fictional impression of nobility once again. "I'm shocked, nay, wounded that our friendship wasn't cemented the moment you called me Lady Moneyface, dear Hugh."

[keenly]

A grin splits his face open. "Well, it was. But you realize it's not a true friendship until we can implicate one another and don't, and that happened before I called you Lady Moneyface."

[sulahnan]

"Aha, so we've been friends this whole time! And it took you this long to realize it? Tsk tsk, Colin, I thought you were supposed to be the smart one."

Clearly the smart one isn't her. See: chucking their prize off the battlements. She's gonna kick herself over that for a good long while, in the back of her mind.

[keenly]

"If we've got into this mess together, there is no smart one." He bites down on a smile. "And yet, I am the smart one. But you're the brave one."

[sulahnan]

Her self satisfied smile betrays just how much of a compliment that is, even as she's trying to downplay it by saying, "I can live with that."