Thranduil is your division head - Provost of Research. You should,
( if it sounds like she's saying this through rage-clenched teeth, she is, and it has nothing to do with kitty, )
heed him. He's been here nearly so long as Araceli and he plays a very long game. ( and she may strangle him with his own stupid hair, but that's not relevant to anything they're discussing right now.
or: it is, but gwenaëlle doesn't want to get into it. )
Araceli Bonaventura is one of the most brilliant women I've ever met from any land—she's in the diplomacy division, but she leads one of the forces projects. She's the rifter that's been here since the beginning, since not long after Trevelyan's death. ( dryly: ) Thedas wasn't always so welcoming to you.
( alarming to think this is an improvement, probably. )
Aside from rifters—Commander Coupe is worth listening to. Not on everything, she's an interfering cunt who thinks she knows best, but more frequently than I would like we've all the misfortune of her being right. She's extremely competent and she respects work ethic, regardless of its origin. Alistair's of the Wardens, and the only one of them worth a damn.
private.
( if it sounds like she's saying this through rage-clenched teeth, she is, and it has nothing to do with kitty, )
heed him. He's been here nearly so long as Araceli and he plays a very long game. ( and she may strangle him with his own stupid hair, but that's not relevant to anything they're discussing right now.
or: it is, but gwenaëlle doesn't want to get into it. )
Araceli Bonaventura is one of the most brilliant women I've ever met from any land—she's in the diplomacy division, but she leads one of the forces projects. She's the rifter that's been here since the beginning, since not long after Trevelyan's death. ( dryly: ) Thedas wasn't always so welcoming to you.
( alarming to think this is an improvement, probably. )
Aside from rifters—Commander Coupe is worth listening to. Not on everything, she's an interfering cunt who thinks she knows best, but more frequently than I would like we've all the misfortune of her being right. She's extremely competent and she respects work ethic, regardless of its origin. Alistair's of the Wardens, and the only one of them worth a damn.