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crystal. you can't fire me, i quit.
FORM: Crystals.
SENDER: Petrana de Cedoux.
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a crystal.
WHAT: An announcement.
WHEN: Shortly after this thread, broadly current.
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall.
NOTES: Petrana was the source of the division head information leak leading to the mage strike. Not everyone was happy about it.
SENDER: Petrana de Cedoux.
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a crystal.
WHAT: An announcement.
WHEN: Shortly after this thread, broadly current.
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall.
NOTES: Petrana was the source of the division head information leak leading to the mage strike. Not everyone was happy about it.
Inquisition.
( her voice is steady. her office is half-packed; she has not yet entirely decided where it will be most appropriate to move to. the nug, still unnamed all these months on, sleeps before the fire in an open box. how had she accumulated so many things to fill this space?
nevermind it. )
This is Madame de Cedoux. I have, since Kingsway of this year past, served this outpost in the capacity of ambassador, the head of the diplomacy division. I was honoured to have been entrusted with such work, and I remain exceptionally proud of what I and those nearest to my office accomplished in that time. To be given the opportunity as a woman out of her world was something that I did not take lightly or for granted, and I believe the experience has been invaluable to me. I may yet hope to hear my own work, one day, described so. For the time beingβ
It's with regret that I must inform you I will be, effective immediately, removing myself from this position to better serve the Inquisition by not becoming, in myself, a barrier to its best work. I shall, of course, continue to serve. I look forward to seeing the appointment of a successor, and I will gladly support their work and the work of my former colleagues in our shared goals. We cannot allow those goals or indeed our own principles to be waylaid by personal ill-feeling.
Thank you for your time.
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if she's more doubtful about what it means next, perhaps it's weak of her, but she prefers that flattering view of her she hears reflected in his words. she says none of it. )
I fear I cannot offer such comfortable surroundings in which to drink it, any longer, but I would nevertheless be glad of your company.
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[It's warm but subdued; he's not sure if she's in a mood where jokes will help. On the other hand, the comment has the benefit of being true.]
At your convenience, I'll be happy to attend you.
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( βwith much to talk about? )
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Yes, I suppose with that obvious caveat. I confess, as someone who was never station in Skyhold, it has been an educational visit.
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( considering, )
βbut how do you find it?
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[Corypheus; whatever happens to mages after Corypheus too, likely.]
There's a weight of history here that's compelling.
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[He's no intention of getting more specific while negotiations are ongoing, especially via sending crystal, but... with his tempered expectations factored in, it certainly seems that it could be going worse. (No one seems to be in immediate danger of rewaging the war, which he'd argue qualifies.)]
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No, truly; I share them. To be in the room at all is the first battle. That is not insignificant, itself.
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[A pause, then, opting for a light tease of his own:]
But then, I have little doubt you will hear more of the details than I intend when I return, if you repeat the precise combination of wine and sympathy.
[He sees you there, madame.]
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I shall be on my guard, then. Though I am not enough of a strategist to deprive myself of your company entirely, so the advantage is clearly yours.
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( like eighteen dangers
like at least eighteen dangers, some of them probably related to her list of reasons why she's harmless )
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[Which is to say, he is not buying the argument of harmlessness, but he still wants to see her.]