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[cozen]

WHO: Bastien, Athessa, Alexandrie, Darras, John, Marcoulf, Petrana, Yseult
WHAT: A small apology tour slash charm offensive.
WHEN: Vaguely Drakonis
WHERE: Val Royeaux
NOTES: OOC post.

Background: Riftwatch is in Val Royeaux to make it very clear that they support the Orlesian military and Exalted March and definitely do not condone desertion or harbor deserters. This is necessary because someone in Riftwatch (Bastien) helped someone in Orlais (Vincent Suchet) who was harboring deserters, including, nearly, the son of the Baron and Baronness Auvray. They take a lot of pride in their family's history of valiant military feats and were on the verge of being horribly embarrassed by the whole ordeal before they managed to turn it around and paint it as an insurrectionist conspiracy that tried and failed to lure their son away from his duty. Enough circumstantial connections to Riftwatch came up during Suchet's quick and dramatic trial that the rumor mill went a little wild, so now everyone is here to tame it!

Except Bastien, who's here to put his fake printer name back on and tell some solid lies to the Chancellor's office when they ask him what the deal is, to ensure there's no real non-gossip trouble, and then to have a little bit of a meltdown. 👉👉

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Her smile holds as she meets his absent gaze, and does not visibly have the quality of one that has frozen in place; it feels a little like Hightown did, at first. She has become a known quantity, but novelty had got her foot in the door as much as her title, then, of ambassador—had held that door open for her, when she no longer held the title.

“In some respects,” she allows. “In some respects,” a new sentence, after that vague answer, “I might argue that politics are similar in all places which have them, much as the differences between a man of Orlais and a man of Ferelden might be vast and yet the bones beneath are...hardly unalike. It is the job of diplomats to make useful the differences.”