Once my ancestors lost their entire being and way of life where they went above and below the waves as they pleased, building down to the very depths so it is said. Do you know what they did when it was sundered from us? They built ships, they built above the remains and ventured far and wide to all other lands, that is what they did. They didn't mourn endlessly.
[Reasons like that are why she's suspect about the Chantry, even a little suspect about the Dalish. You honour the past and remember it, you let it guide you but you don't allow it to loom so large or cling to it. The past can be the anchor that drags you down, down, down, drowning you.
Araceli prefers the future, the new horizon gold and glittering with promise, and the present, like now, setting her hands on Korrin's hips to balance herself as she stretches up on her toes, holding back for a moment, just to tease.]
Remember, I have much riding on bragging about Vashoth heating pads, there's at least one Antivan I must make jealous.
[Now Korrin gets her kiss, a small happy sigh right before it because it's cold and miserable and terrible here, but there's Korrin, and Korrin always makes it better.]
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[Reasons like that are why she's suspect about the Chantry, even a little suspect about the Dalish. You honour the past and remember it, you let it guide you but you don't allow it to loom so large or cling to it. The past can be the anchor that drags you down, down, down, drowning you.
Araceli prefers the future, the new horizon gold and glittering with promise, and the present, like now, setting her hands on Korrin's hips to balance herself as she stretches up on her toes, holding back for a moment, just to tease.]
Remember, I have much riding on bragging about Vashoth heating pads, there's at least one Antivan I must make jealous.
[Now Korrin gets her kiss, a small happy sigh right before it because it's cold and miserable and terrible here, but there's Korrin, and Korrin always makes it better.]