002.

[strangel]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Helena
RECIPIENT: everyone
WHAT: ??? family ???
WHEN: Early May
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: (some talk of death and trauma in a few threads) when can she acquire her custom spec in sestrahood?

Hello crystals. I have question.

( There is a long pause before Helena continues. Long enough that it could seem plausible that the question is never coming. And then, with a rush, )

How do you be good twin?

I'm— not sure how to be good sister. We were being apart long time. I thought maybe peanut butters would be good present, but I think it made Sarah unhappy.

( Stiltedly, ) I stole her crystal, do not play this for her. Thank you.

Comments

[strangel]

I don't think she thinks peanut butter is very special.

( WHAT A FOOL )

What is the trainings?

[iceblade]

Hm. What does she think is special, then?

My sister is an augur's apprentice -an augur is a local shaman who helps guide the hold- and I'm a spirit warrior. We're the only non-mages who have anything to do with the Land of Dreams -lowlanders call it the Fade- so many of said lowlanders think we're mages. We're not, though.

[strangel]

Her daughter.

Shaman and spirits. Devil worship, it is sounding like.

[iceblade]

[An amused snort.] That's what the Chantry says, but they hate anything that isn't revering the Maker. We Avvar worship our own gods and we'll keep doing it, no matter what the Chantry does. Not that they can do much when their leader is dead.

[Her tone abruptly softens.]

...ah. Her daughter isn't here, I take it? Rifter arrivals are never a thing we can promise, sad to say.

[strangel]

You sound like you hate Chantry as much as they hate the not-Makers.

Little Kira is not here. Unhappy for Sarah, but— safer for Kira, maybe.

[iceblade]

Eh, it's less hatred and more 'tired of their shite'.

Aye, that might be so. Between rifts and the bastard who spawned them, Thedas is safe for none of us. It's still a right pain in the arse to be separated from family, though.

Maybe it's time to be blunt. Pick a time when she's not busy rushing around and just ask her what might help. Saves all the guessing, doesn't it?

[strangel]

Yes. Aggressive approach might be necessary.