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[limier]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Wren Coupe
RECIPIENT: All y'all
WHAT: Vital questions
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: Near, far, wherever you are
NOTES: There will be prizes.

Indulge me: The best advice you have received. Explain why, if you choose.

Comments

[thecookery]

If people think they can take advantage, they will. So make damn well sure it's not you they think it of.

[limier]

And if you would have the advantage of them?

[thecookery]

The opposite of that last bit then.

[limier]

What makes for an easy mark? To avoid or to seek?

[thecookery]

Mark?

[She sounds mildly offended!]

I'm not looking to find one, yeah? Just not to be one.

[limier]

Then best to have an idea of one, no? I hardly look to find dragons, but I hope I should notice, were I to break out in scales.

[thecookery]

Clever, that. [Said grumpily and sarcastically, of course.] But we can gab about the best ways to take advantage all day, and it don't change that the best way to avoid it is just to keep distance, keep sharp, and make crossing you seem like a very poor idea.

Like a dragon, say.

[limier]

Ah, but the trouble with dragons — how rarely do any leap to their defense.

[thecookery]

About as often as they meet some real fools, I'd guess.

[limier]

So is that how it must be? Dragons and occasionally the dim-witted, against all the rest of the world?

[thecookery]

I'm no expert, but I never met a dragon that weren't a dragon no more. Did you?

[limier]

Lesser serpents might shed their skin.

[thecookery]

[A LOUD HUFF.]

Look, I'm about sick of all this play with words. If you've something to say, say it plain, yeah?

[limier]

Very well.

[ you can hear the eyebrows lifting ]

One must take care to avoid driving off all potential allies. The use of isolation extends only to a point, no?

[ is this the most hypocritical shit she's said today? no. but it's up there. ]

[thecookery]

Aye, well, it's a pretty thought. But not all of us can be another way than we are. Even after we're told we ought to.

private;

[limier]

[ she switches the feed, in deference to the subject, ]

Perhaps. But you have spoken rather openly here, for one who'd not be had.

private;

[thecookery]

[It takes Avery a while to respond, now that this switch seems to have turned it weirdly intimate for some reason. She's kinda tempted not to respond at all.]

I don't see as any of it helps with that.

[limier]

[ there are some ways in which wren would prefer not to be publicly seen. there's a point at which probing, philosophical discussions grow a little too pointed to be viewed as benign interest. this is one such point.

orlais is mistrusted enough, here. ]

Does it not? Defensiveness seldom breeds itself without reason. Are you among friends, in the Inquisition?

[thecookery]

...I don't really do friends. Never have.

[Not often at least, and certainly not easy. It's always felt like the rules of that game that come natural to everyone else just didn't come in her instruction manual at all, or came backwards and in another language.

Which might explain the whole pushing people away thing. If they can read her, and she can't read them worth a damn, she is at a severe disadvantage.]

But these people at least seem to be on the right side of things, in the big picture. I do my part, they do theirs, we stay out of each other's way. That's good enough for me.

[limier]

I see.

[ kiddo ]

I doubt any of us might begrudge the assistance. Do they still have you about the kitchens?

[thecookery]

[A grunt.]

In charge of them now, actually.

[She does not sound particularly thrilled about this promotion, but at least this is a topic she's more comfortable with.]

A MILLION YEARS LATE, sorry

[limier]

Difficult to stay out of anyone's way there.

[ a fabulous prize will be delivered to the kitchens later by runner. no explanation will be given. ]