crystal |

[inkindled]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Matthias
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch EVERYONE LISTEN UP
NOTES: friends don't let friends get extradited

So what is Riftwatch, right. Like, I know what it is. But I know what it ought not to be as well, and if someone comes along and says oi, I'm come of some king in Nevarra and we say we've a right to carry off and arrest one of your members--well, then, that's an easy one. We tell 'em no, and piss off.

'Cause we can't let that go on. Right? Not that we're opening up jail cells and inviting in every prisoner to come in and join up, but-- well, we're none of us perfect. Everyone's come from something. And it's not always so simple as they say it is. People get hanged for nothing, or maybe they did what they're accused of, but there's more to it that no one's saying. And we--Riftwatch, I mean--we're not held to the same diplomatic shit that the Inquisition proper is, not any longer. That's part of how come we split off, I thought. So we can be what we want, and say for ourselves what we'll put up with and what we won't. And who we'll put up with, and who we won't. Make our own policy so we can protect our own people, no matter what.

At least, that's what it ought to be, I think. I didn't come here and join up just so someone could hand me over some day the first time some messenger comes calling. Don't think anyone ought to be worried about that. Like--there's diplomacy, and then there's acting a white liver coward, you know?

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[justashotaway]

[Less quickly said, her voice going softer.]

That is not a promise you can make.

[tender]

Yes, it is. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. Neither will Matthias, or Athessa. Okay?

[justashotaway]

No, it is not.

[The way this will work--at best, she thinks--is that the Nevarran king will make it impossible for her to stay in Riftwatch, and she will kill people, and then she will have to leave Kirkwall. Whether Derrica, or Matthias, or Athessa intervene is immaterial, except insofar as it puts all of them at risk.

(It is always a matter of risking others. She hates that.)

She relents just a little, though, after a moment.]

...But all right.

[tender]

Will you let me come sit with you?