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[heirring]

WHO: Flint, Wysteria, Miriam, Cassius & You
WHAT: Catch-All
WHEN: Post-dreams, nebulously Guardian-ish
WHERE: Various
NOTES: Warnings (if any) in subject lines.

((OOC NOTE: Anything in bold is closed to one thread, though group threads a-okay.
Feel free to turn this into action brackets if The Spirit Moves You.
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[charmoffensive]

Loxley has been an infrequent sight around the Gallows for the better part of a month, but occasionally, he slinks in—to drop off a report, to restock on the odd healing potion, or even just to reap the benefits of a free meal.

The satchel at his feet has the spoils of charming some foodstuffs out of the kitchen staff that should also see him through the week, and he waits at the Gallows pier, finishing off an apple and keeping his own company as he awaits the ferry. He is a tall creature dressed in light leathers with colourful flourishes like the patterned purple shirt beneath earth-toned leather coat, as if to off-set the grey of his skin and curling horns, soot-black nails that make dents in apple flesh. The boots he wears are more interesting, metal embellishments catching the light in odd ways, runic etchings in supple leather.

When the ferry arrives, and its passengers disembark, he tosses the remains of his apple into the water, and hops down.

And then waits as a minor delay winches around where Byerly Rutyer is still occupied in conversation with the ferryman, seemingly without mind that it's beginning to sleet, that people are waiting, and that, in Loxley's opinion, he isn't nearly so charming or funny as all that. He stares into the middle distance as he waits for the good Ambassador to finish disembarking, before moving into place.

Spying another in the process of boarding—a lady, at that—Loxley shares a glance that communicates quite clearly can you believe that guy, as he gestures out with his hand to indicate she might board first.

[heirring]

If she stares very hard in their direction, Wysteria likes to imagine she can see every little facet of the jagged cliff faces across the harbor. Never mind that the weather is so grey and overcast and no sunlight at all shines on them. Nevermind that in the drizzle-turning-to-sleet, they are really little more than smudged grey marks zigzagging up behind the Kirkwall dockyards. If she tries, really tries, the details will reveal themselves to her. And if they don't, then at least she will have effectively blocked out the most insufferable parts of whatever conversation Rutyer is carrying on.

Her fixation on the landscape does not, however, stop her from shooting a poisonous look at the Ambassador's back when he does finally move on and it is in the process of pivoting her attention back toward the ferry afterward that she catches the Qunari's eye.

And sympathetically eye rolls so hard that it's a miracle she doesn't pull anything as she navigates down into the ferry.

[charmoffensive]

Loxley follows in after with nimble steps, rucksack of supplies slung over a shoulder as he goes, a flap of coat hem.

When Wysteria settles, she'll find herself opposite the qunari who settles his things between his ankles, and doesn't seem to too much mind the fall of cold misting rain that slicks his hair to his brow. They might embark on a less-than-pleasant boat ride in civil silence, but alternatively—

"I suppose we ought to be thankful," Loxley says, eye catching the departing shape of Rutyer on the shoreline, "that the ferryman didn't throw himself overboard on the way over. I might have."

[heirring]

From her place on the bench seat, with her capelet drawn about her and her felted hat pulled very low, Wysteria scoffs. It's an automatic and largely involuntary noise—cut short either because she realizes she's doing it and has experienced some momentary instant of mortification or simply by habit.

Her pause afterward is very narrow, consisting of the briefest glance back over her shoulder toward the outline of the man in question. Her second scoff as she turns back to the qunari is much more intentional and significantly more well-rounded as a result.

So not a matter of mortification, then.

"Thankful? Not at all. A cold winter bath might shock some sense into the gentleman."