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

[inagutterson]

Need to know what you're running to is better or that it's not a noose.

[Even if he was desperate would he be brave enough to risk the Deep Roads or a lifetime of debt? It's easier to be born into it. Hard to get out of but you don't make that first choice.]

[rathercommon]

Do you? Honestly, if I hated something, I don't think I'd wait to find out whether or not something was better. I'd just go.

[inagutterson]

There's Darkspawn on the way out of Orzammar. And the Carta. You got no idea what the Carta is unless you're in it, I can't explain it to you.

[rathercommon]

Try me.

[inagutterson]

[There are a hundred things he could say. A thousand. Instead, Yngvi laughs. Laughter that rattles through all the hollow places in him. All the places dark as the Deep Roads.]

Thedas'll grind that out of you if you let it, try to hold onto that yeah?

[rathercommon]

[ A slight hesitation. ]

It'll grind...what out of me? Self-confidence?

[inagutterson]

Everything. It happens. Life happens. D'you think a mountain is always tall or that-- that glass stays sharp forever if it drops in the sea? How d'you turn grain to flour? Take a great bloody stone and wear all the stuff protecting the soft bit away.

[Sometimes he can do the smart people talking thing when he actually stops thinking and let's the words come out.]

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty scoffs. Not nastily - the noise is rather soft - but she scoffs. ]

And, what, you fancy the place I came from wrapped me up in velvet? It's sweet of you to fuss, but also I've already had a great bloody stone on my back all my life. If they couldn't crush me there, Thedas can't, either.

[ But, it's worth emphasizing again - ]

But you are sweet.