crystal.

[byblow]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Alistair
RECIPIENT: Everybody
WHAT: More important questions.
WHEN: Todayish
WHERE: A crystal near YOU!
NOTES: Nah.

Politics aside - is that possible? Can we do that? I have faith in you, all of you -

[ Getting off topic there Alistair. ]

Politics aside, [ Alistair's voice continues, with scolding emphasis aimed at himself, ] who wears skirts better, do you think? Mages or Templars?

[ xoxo ]

Comments

[pinprick]

Which mage or Templar?

[byblow]

No. I'm not doing this with you. Go flirt with him directly.

[pinprick]

But it makes you so uncomfortable.

[byblow]

I'm not uncomfortable. I'm annoyed. You two are like Chanters, only instead of the Chant you memorized some romance story.

[pinprick]

Would that the Maker would curse you with the same affliction.

[byblow]

Though stung with a hundred arrows, though suffering from ailments both great and small, his heart was strong, and he moved on. [ --tartly, with an unseen hand pressed over his heart to pantomime being wounded. ]

[pinprick]

I could have said you'll understand when you're a man, but...

[arlathvhen]

Do you enjoy being rude to people.

[ Congrats Alistair you've got one whole elf to defend you. ]

[pinprick]

He can give it as well as he takes it, I assure you. Otherwise, no.

[arlathvhen]

He asked you to not discuss something that makes him uncomfortable, and you responded with glee at making him uncomfortable, and then questioned his masculinity. I find that ill-fitting behavior.

[byblow]

Beleth, I do appreciate it an awful lot, but it's fine. If I had to live with his personality I'd lash out, too.

[arlathvhen]

...He was being rude to you.

[ :c ]

[byblow]

[ turn that :c into c: ]

Well, yes. But I'm - you have met me, haven't you? I can't have hallucinated our entire friendship. I have ten good years left before the lyrium starts causing that sort of thing, at least.

[arlathvhen]

You have ten--

That's terrible.

[ Turns the :c into a :,c ]

[pinprick]

[Baffled silence.]

As you say.

[Not worth having an argument, least of all in public. He doesn't even know this woman.]

[justice_is_blond]

...They do this to each other routinely.

[arlathvhen]

Still.

[ Can you argue with that logic, Anders. No, because it's not logic. ]

[justice_is_blond]

Alistair gives just as good as he gets. It's the both of them, so getting after Nate will do nothing.

[He's so impartial. The impartialest.]

[byblow]

Wow, hold up. I give better than I get, thank you very much.

[justice_is_blond]

You most certainly weren't here. That's why Beleth had to swoop in and defend you.

[byblow]

I was warming up!

[arlathvhen]

Anders, do humans have a thing about ankles?

[ She says, speaking loud enough to talk over the rest of the squabbling. Here let me distract you with something completely different. ]

[justice_is_blond]

About... ankles? I'm certain some do, for every part there's likely people with things about it, but I can't say I know anyone who is particular about ankles. ...Why?

[arlathvhen]

Somebody asked me to show them a little ankle.

[ Not the exact truth, but. ]

[byblow]

And now you've offended all four of my chest hairs.

[ He has way more than that just fyi. For anyone reading along and taking notes. ]