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[justashotaway]

WHO: Laura Kint & Matthias, Abby, and POTENTIALLY YOU
WHAT: Returning to Riftwatch HQ after half a year spent helping Marchers dealing with the aftermath of sieges and other nastiness. Did she chop wood with her claws? Almost certainly.
WHEN: End of Wintermarch, start of Guardian
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall, the general area
NOTES: The deal is this: Coming up with open starters usually just means I write bullshit "Laura exists, come bother her" things. However, if we plan something out together, I can write you a slightly more interesting starter, like "Laura stabs something dangerously near your character" or "Laura awkwardly hugs your character without warning because she missed them." If you PM me or PP prettydoes, we can plan out something specific, and I'll write it up.

Starters in the comments.

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abby.

[justashotaway]

Half a year away from Kirkwall means Laura needs to re-walk the city, remember the shapes and smells and the ways different shadows move. She explores during the day, finding her favourite vendors at the market - and again at night, when her breath freezes before her. Someday, she'll want to go out in search of wrongdoers and teach them regret. Tonight, she simply wants to see what Kirkwall now looks like at night.

Someone, cloaked or coated up against the cold - and against discovery - is stood beside a house, facing it, writing something upon it. No - she changes her mind. Scratching something upon it. Etching it. Laura might not know the word graffiti, but she recognizes the concept.

She taps the figure on the shoulder - quite a ways up from her own shoulders. (Is this unwise? It might be. Claws make her confident, however, and fighting would warm her.) Her voice is low but clear as she asks, "What are you doing?"

[armd]

Lowtown is the first place to go if you'd like to see somebody carving something into a door; Abby is surprised to be stopped more than anything else.

"What does it look like." She shakes the tap on her shoulder off, and keeps carving the O in YOU. It is not the most mature way to get across such rude sentiment, but Abby is feeling very sore about recent events. She'd love to tell Astarion this if that didn't require literally saying it to his face, and so: she carves it on his door.

The sizing of the letters is inconsistent, but the message is clear.

"Okay," she says, sensing the person is not going to leave her alone for whatever reason, "The fuck is your– Laura?"

Please don't take Abby standing there with her knife pointing outward as a threat. She's just surprised. Of all the people she expected to see...

[justashotaway]

She pauses, looking at the girl, a slight frown scratching itself between her brows. It's been a long half-year, and what might have been momentous to Abby - falling through a rift, spotting a girl standing over a body in an alleyway - was simply a day's work for Laura. But the scent of her is familiar, after a moment or two, and the look of her as well. (And the height, even now that Laura's grown a little taller.)

"Is that your door?" she asks, and the question is neutral enough that she might be preparing to accuse her of vandalism - or she might want to know.

[armd]

"No," she says stupidly, still staring, "Where were you?"

She'd noticed the disappearance. Had asked about her once or twice to little avail, because she'd met her the same amount of times, and didn't know who she typically kept company with. Eventually, Abby had practically forgotten about her.

The knife is swiftly lowered.

[justashotaway]

"The Marches." Elsewhere in the Marches, anyway. It seems immaterial at the moment, so she doesn't elaborate.

Instead, she glances at the house they're standing beside. "You shouldn't carve things into other people's doors."

[armd]

Oh, right, that really clears everything up. She's not actually mad at Laura but she kinda looks it- angry has been Abby's default expression for far too long. A frown seems at home on her face.

"Yeah, I know."

And yet. Here she is. And leaving it as FUCK YO just looks stupid, so she may as well finish that up, it'll only take thirty seconds.