CLOSED - So I made a wish on a million of the stars, registered your name on a few

[mythalenaste]

WHO: Merrick and Pel
WHAT: Catching up, spending time with the Most Important Person.
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Will update with any warnings.

He's been back for a while, but she only just finished the presents she'd been working on for him while he was gone. She's proud of this one. So when they're in her room and the candles are lit, she proudly hands him a bundle--cloth wrapped around something soft.

Inside, there is a set of knitted gear for cold weather. A hood attached to a scarf, and a pair of mitts. All of it is knitted from the same yarn, something marbled of a brown wool and a crimson fiber with a discernible shimmer.

"Someone was dyeing silk roving and I happened along. Some of it didn't take quite as evenly as the rest, so he practically gave it to me."

Comments

[mythalenaste]

Now she smiles like she can't help it.

"Incredibly kind. He loves history and values the faith I have in the Creators. He has sound moral judgment. He can be a bit severe, but no more so than I am. And not toward me."

[dalishious]

"Who is he severe toward?" Merrick asks, brows furrowed.

[mythalenaste]

"Other templars. The Chantry, if you'd believe it. Racists and arseholes. I wish you could have seen how fast a few Orlesian shems ran from him after they called me a rabbit. One of them fainted."

Yes, she buried templar under all that.

[dalishious]

Oh, he caught that. Merrick lets her finish, then fixes her with an even gaze.

"A templar," he says carefully.

[mythalenaste]

She meets his gaze with a frozen smile. But it's harder to fake it with Merrick. It's harder to pretend this is a good idea, objectively, courting a Templar.

A few heartbeats pass.

"He's very kind, Merrick." And that's apparently all someone needs to be for her, she is so starved for kindness.