“Politics at home is quite similar, one country even wears masks all the time too!” From her smile, it’s clear she’s at least a little excited at the idea of belonging and fitting in because it’d be so much harder if she didn’t, but she’s made the effort and the fact that it’s paying off? Well it brightens her day and she could use that when she still keeps thinking about Zevran and Sina. “Kadan, vash-- vashedan, and maraas-lok.”
A good thing he can’t actually hear how she might have butchered the last two, the emphasis falling on the wrong place but to be fair, she’s heard them once and Thedas has too many languages and accents to keep up with all at once.
Almost choking on he drink, she sets it down and has to laugh for a good solid minute. “Efficiency! Oh that’s so boring and dull! It should be fun, and passion, and thinking about this incredible thing you’re doing - you’re making a whole new person! And true, fathers can leave more easily than the mother but I cannot imagine being me without my parents. They got me tutors, taught me how to stand up for the right things, gambling and whoring, reading the stars so I’ll never get lost.” Her parents instilled so much love in her; her father’s smile, her mother’s eyes, a whore’s charm and a pirate’s assured place in the world.
“But...how do you breed a soldier? Babies just flop. And cry. You can’t even tell why a baby is crying let alone what it’ll be when it grows up.” Okay you can tell that some babies will grow up to be shits but it’s not polite to tell a parent that. “The world was as open as the sea to me, all the possibilities just sat there waiting for me to pick the shiniest ones.”
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A good thing he can’t actually hear how she might have butchered the last two, the emphasis falling on the wrong place but to be fair, she’s heard them once and Thedas has too many languages and accents to keep up with all at once.
Almost choking on he drink, she sets it down and has to laugh for a good solid minute. “Efficiency! Oh that’s so boring and dull! It should be fun, and passion, and thinking about this incredible thing you’re doing - you’re making a whole new person! And true, fathers can leave more easily than the mother but I cannot imagine being me without my parents. They got me tutors, taught me how to stand up for the right things, gambling and whoring, reading the stars so I’ll never get lost.” Her parents instilled so much love in her; her father’s smile, her mother’s eyes, a whore’s charm and a pirate’s assured place in the world.
“But...how do you breed a soldier? Babies just flop. And cry. You can’t even tell why a baby is crying let alone what it’ll be when it grows up.” Okay you can tell that some babies will grow up to be shits but it’s not polite to tell a parent that. “The world was as open as the sea to me, all the possibilities just sat there waiting for me to pick the shiniest ones.”