[ open] hijinks with sonia

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WHO: Sonia & YOU
WHAT: Catch-all for social calls, missions and hijinks
WHEN: gestures vaguely at this month
WHERE: Kirkwall, the Gallows
NOTES: Sonia’s info page is here!

Sonia got back from an extended mission that took her out of Kirkwall just a few weeks ago, and then spent the last few weeks fighting off an minor and irritatingly resistant cold. Now that she's no longer sniffling 24/7, it's time for her to get into some more interesting work and socialize like the wine-toting butterfly she is.

She also seems to be amassing quite the collection of children's toys and some clothes, evidently meant as souvenirs. They are slowly taking over one corner of her quarters, like an adorable invasion of stuffed animals.

If you'd like to work on a mission together, hang out (or meet for the first time), or get into trouble (cause problems) with Sonia, hit me up at runawayballista for a starter because I am too old and weary to write generic prompts

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byerly & sidony

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It's been a long while since Sonia had a family dinner she could truly describe as both pleasant and lively. Dinners back home at Wildcrest tended to be terse, either discomfitingly quiet or well-seasoned with arguments, and while she has always loved her sister, conversation with Sonia's brother-in-law is about is interesting as talking to a rock, unless one is extraordinarily fond of dressage. And while Sonia may love her nieces and nephews just as much, they are still young little things, and you can only stand having a full wine glass knocked out of your hand so many times before you must sigh and resign yourself to a dinner without drinks.

So she is thrilled to the brim that Sidony and Byerly have accepted her family dinner invite. Not that she thought they would refuse -- even if Byerly might put up resistance, she's sure Sidony would insist -- and who would pass up her company, especially when it comes coupled with a bottle from her home vineyards? Only a tasteless fool, that's who. Sonia is very keen on getting to know Sidony better, and on seeing just how she and Byerly are like together. Certainly they must keep up their act, whatever the lines, at all times. But Sonia has found herself quite fond of her cousin-in-law, and hopes that by this gesture, she can show Sidony that she has nothing to fear from her. In an unprecedented turn of maturity, Sonia has absolutely zero interest or intent to meddle in their affairs.

The dinner is a quiet little affair in her quarters, the small table pulled away from the wall and draped in a simple but beautifully-dyed cloth brought from home, lit softly with a slow-burning candle. The food is relatively simple, no seven-course feast, because Sonia had insisted on cooking herself. She did, of course, have help. That is why dinner looks like it might actually be good and not just...edible. There's a decanter of Wildcrest merlot already set out to breathe, with three wine glasses empty and waiting. She looks almost girlishly excited to see them, bright-eyed and arms wide, and none of it is feigned. This will be a good time.

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They show up on time (a rarity for Byerly, to be sure), and By is shaved and bathed and dapper in fine Ferelden style. He has brought not the perhaps-expected gift of wine (whatever Sonia can supply is going to be way better than what hasn't been drunk yet in Kirkwall), but rather coffee; whole-bean, roasted, quite decent. In this caffeine-starved place, it's as good as gold.

"How lovely, dear cousin," he says, greeting Sonia with a fond kiss on the cheek. "You spoil us." And then, to his wife - "Sidony. I believe you and Sonia have already met, yes? Just as a reminder, she is the only member of my family who doesn't deserve to die face-down in shit. Sonia, my wife, Sidony."