"Right! But not only that. You see, I thought I could wait on it and try rift magic first, because the shapeshifting would be for my own needs later on, when this war is over." And she has hope that they'll succeed. She doesn't want to consider what the world will be like if they don't.
She comes up to the tavern door and opens it, still talking. At this time of day, there are only a few regulars settled in, but even if there weren't, Ellana is no longer afraid of others and what they think of her as a mage. She'll talk about it in the open if she wants to. She just won't go giving them heart attacks by turning into a bird unnecessarily.
"But then I realized I could serve the Inquisition this way. Remember in the Fallow Mire when we went to rescue the scouts from the Avvar? We split up and my group climbed up to the crumbling roof to spy on them. How much easier would that have been for all of us if I could have just flown up as a bird? I could do scouting now. I could be more useful."
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She comes up to the tavern door and opens it, still talking. At this time of day, there are only a few regulars settled in, but even if there weren't, Ellana is no longer afraid of others and what they think of her as a mage. She'll talk about it in the open if she wants to. She just won't go giving them heart attacks by turning into a bird unnecessarily.
"But then I realized I could serve the Inquisition this way. Remember in the Fallow Mire when we went to rescue the scouts from the Avvar? We split up and my group climbed up to the crumbling roof to spy on them. How much easier would that have been for all of us if I could have just flown up as a bird? I could do scouting now. I could be more useful."