[open]

[doneisdone]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Teren von Skraedder
RECIPIENT: errbody
WHAT: Meet your new Warden mom
WHEN: early Solace, after Weisshaupt/the Deep Roads
WHERE: in your earholes
NOTES: teren is mean

Good evening, Skyhold. This is Senior Warden Teren von Skraedder, and I have conceded to use this blasted thing to inform you that I am the newly-appointed Warden liaison for the Inquisition.

Concerns and questions from or regarding Wardens in the context of the Inquisition should be directed to me. I would advise you not to waste my time with inane commentary, but I know who I'm representing and will simply remind you that I control the camp's whiskey rations.

All complaints from Alistair and Kaisa must be reported first to Anders, in observation of both punishing any remaining past misdeeds and in protecting my ears from their keening.

In addition, it would be remiss of me not to inform you that one of our own answered his Calling on our recent expedition to the Deep Roads. May each of us drink to Senior Warden Hercules Hansen tonight, who gave his life in sacrifice to the well-being of Thedas.

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[justice_is_blond]

So essentially you're making me your right hand.

[In other words, time to make her reconsider this choice.]

And asking that I report to you regularly because you know how they can get.

[doneisdone]

Don't get ahead of yourself.

[justice_is_blond]

Too late, already there. Every. Day. You'll see me, speak with me. Won't that be great?

[Teren you don't want this he doesn't want this please.]

[doneisdone]

All correspondence from Anders, Kaisa, and Alistair is to be reported via Blackwall.

[justice_is_blond]

Oh, such a shame.

[Does he sound smug? Yes, he sounds smug.]

[byblow]

So half of us have to report to Blackwall first, then he forwards things to you—doesn't that make you more of a Blackwall liaison?

[justice_is_blond]

I think his beard is his liason.

[unbrokenoath]

Alistair, I think we're being discriminated against.

[scalethewall]

Wait a moment... what just happened?

[pinprick]

I heard about Herc. Let me know if there's anything I can do.

[Nathaniel still sounds pretty puny, still very much in hospital.

[unbrokenoath]

I have a question which I can tell you because it isn't complaining. What do they put in Warden food to make all of them so ruggedly handsome? What secrets are the Wardens hiding that makes them all so stunning? To say nothing of their smooth, charismatic charms.

[scalethewall]

Congratulations, Skraedder.

[Better her than him.]

... Does that make our tent the official office of the Grey Warden liaison?

[doneisdone]

Maker's sake, Gordon, it was a joke.

[scalethewall]

Wait. What was a joke? Letting me live in the other half of your tent or that you're the Warden liaison?

Does that mean I should take this bottle of mead back to the kitchens then? I thought we'd be celebrating.

[doneisdone]

Put that back down or I'll skin you alive.

Oh. [shuffling sounds of someone fiddling with the crystal, perhaps in an attempt to deactivate it, with distant muttered cursing.] Is this a mage thing--

~> to action (though her crystal is still on >:3)

[scalethewall]

[He'd practically made his way all the way back to the tent already, so liaison or not, there was now mead.]

Alright, so which part is the joke? Get your cup, Skraedder, the barkeep swore up and down this was the good stuff.

[ombranera]

The joke is that the two of you liase together.

[ Innuendo, Blackwall. ]

[scalethewall]

What? Wait, what? No. That's not, uh.... not happening. There's no liaisoning. [He's definitely not sounding ridiculously flustered. Nope.]

[sistertohermen]

...I don't understand. Hercules died? He died in the Deep Roads? And you're sure nothing else happened, that he wasn't captured or...got lost, maybe you lost him?

[doneisdone]

[An uncomfortable pause. Feelings are hard.]

He answered his Calling. There is only one thing to be done when that happens.

[sistertohermen]

Give up and die?

[sunshinethroughgrey]

[There is a long moment of silence.]

Thank you for letting us know, Teren. Congratulations, on your position.

[Another pause.]

So I will be speaking to you, when I am preparing to take my leave of absence?

[doneisdone]

Thank you.

And yes. We can discuss it later.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

I appreciate it.

[A pause.]

Nothing serious. Family business.

[hlif]

[For a moment, for a long terrible awful moment it's like all the breath has been punched out of Asher's lungs and he can't breathe. That the last time he saw Hercules was the last time he saw Hercules. Then he activates his crystal and clears his throat.]

Don't know what traditions the Wardens have but I was mates with Herc, there's a good Fereldan homebrew from my family holdings for all of you. Just tell me if you want someone to meet me at your camp or if someone wants to come collect it.