crystal

[rathercommon]

FORM: Crystallll
SENDER: Kitty Jones
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS EVERYBODYYYY DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Everyone seems sad so: dogs

[ Kitty sounds faintly aggrieved. The reason: ]

So, there's this dog that started following me about. I guess it's mine now or - something. Anyway. Has anyone got ideas for a name?

Comments

[rathercommon]

[ Undaunted: ]

Is "going berserk" something we're in dire need of?

[elegiaque]

They're warriors. Yes, that is extremely useful in a battle, that's the fucking point of why they do it. Why are you so obstinately literal and determined to interpret everything anyone says to you in the worst possible fashion?

[rathercommon]

[ A huff of air. ]

You didn't say they only go berserk during battle. Plus, in my completely dreadful personal experience, that's not a very good thing. And I don't know, because that's the only way I can interpret things?

[elegiaque]

I apologise for assuming you don't need to be hand-held through simple logical leaps like 'perhaps battle skills might be for battle', and of course I will bear in mind your limitations in future before I speak lightly of something it's possible to misconstrue.

[rathercommon]

[ Oh, come on. ]

All right. What's set you off.

1 / 2

[elegiaque]

( there's a long, angry silence. )

[elegiaque]

It's nearly two years to the day and I won't have his memory disrespected in ignorance.

[rathercommon]

Mm.

[ Well. ]

What happened?

[elegiaque]

What happens in wars. People come to fight and they die. He came to fight for the Inquisition, and he died.

He had a mabari. Bronson. They're war dogs, very intelligent, very strong; he used to train people in Skyhold to learn to fight alongside theirs.

[rathercommon]

Yeah. This one's a mabari, too. They're, um, impressive. And scary.

[ She tucks a lock of hair behind her ear. ]

So you were close to him?

[elegiaque]

Well, Fereldan.

( she is, occasionally, orlesian from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. )

The Avvar believe that their gods live in all things; that they join their lady when they die. He believed that—that he would be just as far as the Fade. So maybe I still am close to him.

( that's the most respectful thing gwenaëlle has ever said about any religious belief in her entire life. )

[rathercommon]

[ Oh. ]

That's a really nice thing to think. I think...memories, too, keep us close to them.

[elegiaque]

You see people who are gone reflected in the things that they loved before. I think.

[rathercommon]

Yeah. I think that's true. A lot of the people I lost - they cared about things I cared about. So when I fight, it reminds me of them.

[elegiaque]

It's terribly important.

( how did they get from dumb names to dogs to here, why are they like this )

Asher's sister writes me sometimes—she's a spirit warrior, a bit of an Avvar mystic. She wrote me, each day the sun rises, each evening it sets, and I sit here writing this as winter takes hold knowing that in time the ice will melt and spring will come.

I liked that.

[rathercommon]

Yeah. That's really, really lovely. And it's good that you're still close to his sister.

[elegiaque]

We have in common a disinclination to do things the easy way.

( gwenaëlle and aura hardie? gwenaëlle and kitty? probably. )

[rathercommon]

Well, mystics. They hate things being straightforward, don't they.