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[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders and You*! (*unless you are someone who will turn him in. ONE DAY THERE WILL BE CR. /reaches sadly)
WHAT: Detlef going about his days, helping out, being argumentative, everything
WHEN: Mid-Wintermarch
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Probably nothing? I'll edit if that changes

Healing tents

Anders is found in these most often during the day. Everything's easier when he works, really, when he and Justice can both be on the same page. They're doing good. They're furthering the cause of mage freedom. And more importantly, no one is being hurt. Are you a patient? He's probably checking you over before getting to work. Co-worker? Hand him the elfroot salve, please? Or just drop by and find him where he's most willing to be chatty as he works.

Garden

There's nothing like seeing a mage seemingly talking to a tree. Considering previous events, it's probably a little worrying. But upon closer approach one can see that there's a terrified cat clinging to a very small branch that's just barely supporting its weight, and they can hear the mage trying to talk the cat down as if the cat can understand anything that's being said.

"You can do it. Just step... Come on. A little lower. Please?"

Just outside Skyhold

There's a garden inside the walls. It has plenty of things growing in it, including basically everything Anders is looking for. It's hard for him to stay inside the walls for too long, though. He needs to be outside, to wander some, to remind himself that the walls aren't keeping him in. While it isn't the healthiest method of coping, there are certainly worse ways to go about it.

Anyone running into him out here gets a look that's a mix of surprised and bashful - the latter due to him not really having any way to explain why he's out here with a handful of easy-to-get herbs in hand.

Library

He's seated in the Library, head buried in a book the way it never was when he was at the Circle, with a pair of large tomes next to him. They're probably not that surprising for a spirit healer, treatises on spirits and their nature, but he doesn't look pleased. And he isn't. He's not finding anything that will help with his situation, and Anders is aware that he might not have a lot of time left for the looking.

Approaches from strangers get a glance up and a nod, before he'll ask if they need to get to something past him. Known people get asked a little absently how their day is going before he turns another page.

[Or] Alternately, he's curled up off to the side, on the ground, paging through a book on obscure magic that talks about various rumored spells that the author doubts really exist. His attention is primarily on the shapeshifting portion, and he looks a little wistful. Anyone approaching who glances at the book get a half-smile and asked if it wouldn't be fun, being able to transform into animals.

Wildcard

[Hit him up wherever? He grabs food in the kitchens on the go, sometimes is at the tavern in a corner near the back, sits on the walls and looks out sometimes, surreptitiously feeds the stray cats around skyhold (and scolds any dogs that try to take the food,) and may, every now and then, see if he can zap armor in just the right way so straw and fabric and all sorts of things stick to it.]

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[justice_is_blond]

He should... probably not volunteer to take down the towers, as tempted as he is. This is where mentioning he knows how to blow things up would be a poor idea. Actually, most times it's a poor idea to mention he knows how to make things explode.

"I can't say most Templars would want to do it. It's the mages that hated their treatment and what the Circles stood for for them. For Templars, the towers are signs of what power they've had and lost. People will react in fear when mages take them down, but people will react in fear if a mage sneezes. For too long we have let other people's fear hold us back rather than living. Mages should do it."

How little his words will be worth soon enough, especially on this. He holds no illusions about how long he'll live, or even that there's a chance he'll get to see even one of the Circles toppled by someone else. It makes him wonder if he's undermining his own cause, if Alayre will reject everything Detlef said because he's truly Anders. But what else can he do?

Feel guilty, apparently. That's what else he can do, as Alayre calls him friend. What a mess he's created for himself.

"Earn trust with actions. That's what you did. You saved my life from the bear and then treated me like a person. You can't save everyone's life, nor should you try to, but be what you aspire to be, and people will come to trust it eventually. It's hard for people to trust when they've been beaten down so much, or trained into thinking that what was harmful was good."

A beat. If he's going to let Alayre consider him a friend before everything all comes out, he might as well at least offer something to make it worthwhile.

"And you can try some of your questions on me. There are some things I'll not answer, I'll warn you now. But many, likely, I will. And I wouldn't let the fact that you're hated stop you." He hadn't.