foxsays: (Sleeping dreams will reach for her)
Araceli ([personal profile] foxsays) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2016-01-31 08:10 pm (UTC)

With the wall crumbling in so many sections, and with it being one of the lower levels of Skyhold, the climb is short enough, and the final push up over the battlements is easy. Still, she always throws herself up quick as she can to offer a hand if it's needed because the arms sometimes get a bit shaky the first time they're asked to do this.

Better here though than out in the wild if a sudden hillside climb goes awry because on the cliffs, there might not always be time for someone to grab them.

"So a voluntary possession?" Thankfully someone did explain that concept to her, that the spirits can lean close and peer at people, and it makes sense in a way that if they're guided that they might not be murderous. Unless the Mire was an isolated case, and she has to think that some of that has to be explained by the kind of people who would choose to live in a place like that.

"I think that I understand, though there is nothing left of the body the way we do things. We give them to the sea; the sea offers us life when we sail to distant lands for what we can't grow, and when we fish. We return to the sea that we came from and feed what fed us in life." Maybe it's not so much service for them but acceptance of something reclaiming them, taking them to a home they don't get to see in life except in the glimpses of drowning men and women if they're rescued in time.

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