[Open] Tell me would you kill to save a life?

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders and, at last, fully open!
WHAT: Anders is back in Skyhold after the revelation and Warden mission
WHEN: Around mid-Drakonis
WHERE: around Skyhold
NOTES: It's Anders. Beyond that, if someone does swing for him, he will be defending himself or we can have a handy-dandy Warden NPC Joeth Smithicus step in, up to you!

1. The Healing Tents

He's more quiet than he was before as he works, trying to stay out of the way while still being available. The atmosphere isn't a pleasant one, and he knows there's a lot of anger, but how is he going to help out if he's sitting in the Warden camp all the time? Even more, how is he going to keep Justice in check if their hands are figuratively tied?

The fact of the matter is that staying somewhere safe where people don't loathe him isn't an option so he's here. He only wishes it wasn't putting a weight on the shoulders of someone he's directly hurt.

Whenever someone comes in he looks over, focusing on the fact that it's all right however many times he hears no as the answer to his question - "Can I help you?"

2. Wardentown

It's not the most glamorous setting, but the life of a Grey Warden rarely is. There had been nights at Vigil's Keep... but those are long gone, and now it's tents and fire pit and keeping snow from piling up.

a) Magic-

Anders is currently kneeling near the tent that he shares with Nate, working on creating a pair of small walls of earth - one around the tent, and another small, circular one nearby. Earth isn't something he struggles with, but keeping them level and not causing any extra dips in the surrounding ground is a challenge. His lips are pressed together as he works on precision, and an approach gets a sharp glance and no words, but he's not annoyed someone's come over. A moment later he'll raise an eyebrow, but he's not starting this conversation.

b) Kitten

No matter how many times he has to keep drying her off and warming her up, Hero of Purrelden doesn't want to stay in his lap today. She's insisting on pouncing on snowbanks, batting at ice, and attempting to climb tents. The latter she's pulled away from each time while protesting loudly, but there's a little smile on his face as she misbehaves. It's nice to have a cat again, no matter how much more difficult than Ser Pounce-a-lot she is.

"Still better than a mabari," he'll say to anyone who comes close.

c) Foraging

He's not alone, which sometimes puts him on edge, and sometimes makes him feel a little safer. All the same, Anders is in the area outside the Warden camp with another Warden, looking to see what foodstuffs can be found to add to the pot. They're not in danger of going hungry but it's best to be prepared and know what's growing out here. There's no telling how long the Wardens will be near Skyhold, after all.

There's also no telling who he'll run across out here, and he's more on edge and defensive due to the fact that he doesn't know how someone might react if they come across him when not anticipating that he might be around.

"Watch the snow back that way," is what he says, though, tilting his head in the direction he's come. "There's some hiding a nasty drop. I've marked it with stones." Let them react to that how they will.

3. Wildcard me!

[[ooc: Come at me bros! Skyhold, Warden camp, whatever. If you've got a question about a scenario, feel free to private plurk me @ Nadat or PM this journal.]]

Comments

[fleurdesel]

"Consider again what we've been told all our lives, what others have been told of us. We are dangerous, and this is true. We are. Reconciling that without the supposed saftey of a Circle's walls, the fact that we might choose to be more than students and teachers and researchers, to be more than the hand that heals or wounds at the behest of those that send us into the world alongside our minders?" It is...she herself has had a difficult time of it, even with how she throws herself into her work.

"There is a reason I fill my schedule as I do. This is what I know. Healing, teaching, research. This is familiar. A wide world, full of choice? It is terrifying." Without known limitations there are greater risks for failure, for danger, for possession. "Possibly, Though I had not considered that as an option. Such an open display of support for mages, specifically, will take groundwork to make possible. If we were taught more than spells for combat- mm. It could be possible."

[justice_is_blond]

He hurts a little for her, for her fear, and it tugs a place in his heart he'd been trying to deny was still there. Choices were all he'd wanted, were available to so many, but being exposed to them so late made them intimidating for so many.

"We are as dangerous as those trained with crossbow or sword. Generally speaking. The only difference is that they've a choice in picking it up. We don't. But a variety of spells..." Anders gestures at the little fire.

"You've applied haste to cooking. Those who are strong with Earth could raise a full wall together, with work. Fire can cook, cauterize, heat water for a bath. Creation magic isn't healing or shielding alone. Pel had me sprout a seed in my hand - imagine what that could do for a farm. I've... I've not helped as far as perception goes, but it can be changed. I believe that. We can have choices and they will be good choices. Our lives can be as ours as anyone's are. Not without danger, or hardship, but without the walls that are not safety, but a cage."