faderift | [open] braved and beat them on my own

WHO: Teren and you
WHAT: guess who's back. back again
WHEN: post-attack on the Gallows
WHERE: Kirkwall/The Gallows
NOTES: possible discussion of death/grieving, it's a bad time out here

I. The Ferry

In order to return to the Gallows, one must first cross the water to get there. A tall, gloomy woman stands stock still by the ferry's railing, in one hand holding the lead rope of a wiry, docile black gelding, with a rucksack slung over the opposite shoulder. She doesn't go out of her way to make conversation, but doesn't completely reject it either, especially if the source is a familiar face.

II. The Gallows

a. With little to be done in the way of settling in-- it's not like there's a chamber to claim-- Teren has pitched a tent in the vicinity of several others, out of the way of most of the recovery work but near enough that she can do some assisting. Riddle, the gelding, is tied off nearby, munching at a feed bag or simply watching the area, content to remain nearby until it's time he's brought to the stables.
People will find themselves assisted whether they asked for it or not: moving debris, extricating pieces of things (and people) from the rubble, building pyres. Making coffee. Stitching torn clothing on the living. It's done without comment by the hard-faced woman, who seems to have arrived just in time to be as helpful as she is unremarkable.

b. At some idle point in the day, someone may spot her visiting Blanche, offering a dead fish and proceeding to, quite uncharacteristically, put her thin arms around the griffon's neck in what looks suspiciously like an embrace. She stays like that for a while, moving only when Blanche begins to fidget.

III. Wildcard

[happy to make bespoke starters, just hit me upppp]

Threaded | Flat

He's hauling a bucket of fish guts (couldn't lay hands to a steak, not with the city way it is) when he sights Teren. Stands back a minute - known enough men and horses not to interrupt -

When Blanche starts to fuss, and it's plain she's smelled him. Cedric shifts the pail to his other hand, makes like he's been walking up this whole time.

"Reckon she missed you,"

She's a new face, but there's plenty of new old faces, as that list out of Skyhold reminds. The griffons are fussy. If Blanche hasn't tried to bite her, it's good odds.

Vlast keeps shooting the horse puzzled looks and isn't being very sneaky about it.

When he accidentally makes eye contact with the person leading the creature about, he can't keep his questions to himself.

"What," he asks with all the delicacy of a sledgehammer, "is wrong with that centaur...?"

"Why are you hugging my griffon?"

Vega is carrying a harness in both hands, extra length looped around one arm. Maybe this woman is simply tending to them in the aftermath of the attacks but it is inconvenient to those who wish to fit them for gear.

ii - b

i

2b also