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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Adelaide LeBlanc
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Questions for Shardbearers
WHEN: Guardian 22
WHERE: Emprise Du Lion, heard by all
NOTES: Research Questionnaire for people that have shiny things on/in their person.

This message is for anyone that has a shard in their hand, their chest, or otherwise on their person; Rifter or Thedosian or otherwise. If you are so fortunate or unfortunate depending upon your view of the shard as to have one I've questions for you in the interest of better understanding that which you have and what it means for your health, the world around you, and how likely it is you might attract demons in your sleep. At my current best estimate the odds are high in on last but I tend to err on assuming the worst and being pleasantly surprised when the world doesn't rain down fire, death, and the undead.

If you would rather speak in person and are in Emprise du Lion- I can be found in my healing tent. If not? I will return to Skyhold at the end of Guardian if you would prefer to wait to speak face to face or am available at all hours on the crystals.

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[ All her day has been spent in the tent, over her notes, the crystal, and her patients. Compared to the rest of her stay in the Emprise- it is positively lazy. Compared to those closing rifts, saving lives? It is no great effort. If anything it is more familiar to her and all the more enjoyable for it; despite the questions she asks. ]

Mmm. Not today, but I shall make a note of it. [ Smirking, she does so. No reason to not. ]

Has your shard caused you much pain since you've arrived?

If there were a way to be certain and test it, and do so safely? I would have more to offer you. I am sorry I cannot. [ It is as frustrating for her as it must be frightening for them. ] Should that change? Please let me know. I hope you never have cause to learn otherwise, truly.

If you have any difficulties or questions, I am available. [ It is the least she can offer those pulled here against their will, especially since she cannot give them a way home. ]

I- no. I am sorry to say we've no idea how it is you are being pulled here, nor do we have any idea how to reverse the process. Once I am certain the shards are not a danger to you I mean to investigate that further.

That resonance? Seems locked to the shard, and as the shard is not a part of you- I am working blind here, I am afraid. Had I answers I would give them. [ But that is something to consider- something she can test. If that resonance of the fade and the veil is IN their hand or IN the shard, if it threads through them as a spirit possessing a body. ]

That is part of why I am asking after how long those that have them have had them- and if they have used them. To see if the symptoms change. Thusfar my results are inconclusive and there is little record of the Herald's experience with her shard.

How can it not be a part of me? It's in my hand. [Maybe that's what disturbs her so much, that her body - even in such a small way - is no longer entirely hers. That something has changed without her consent. This isn't like a tattoo that she's chosen and had inked into her skin, it isn't like gaining a scar that serves as a reminder.

This wasn't her choice but now she's marked forever perhaps.]

I won't keep you, I'm sure there are many others to speak to but thank you, I understand that this is strange to all of you, almost as strange as it is for any of us.

None that I've noticed.

[He gave a shake of his head while flexing his fingers slightly, opening and closing a fist in thought.]

Took me a while to get used to it, but I did.

I understand. It doesn't sound worth the risk. [Kain is all about taking risks, when it comes to fighting, and so forth. Not so much when it comes to messing with his mind somehow, with dreams and other things like that.] I'll be certain to inform you if it does... Is there anything else you need to know?

Okay. Adelaide it is.

( That's kind of a relief, weird as it is to admit. People who get pushy about their own titles make her... uneasy, sorta kinda. )

This thing?

( Ruby looks at it, pursing her lips a little as she thinks about it. ) It's not my favourite thing in the world, but... there's been a lot going on.

( I've been trying to focus on anything else, she could say. ) Nothing I couldn't handle but it aches, sometimes. Little flare ups sometimes. Is that... normal, do you think? From what other people have said, I mean.

Have you attempted to close any rifts, or been exposed to any veilfire since you've arrived?

An arrowhead in your hand is no more a part of your flesh than the shard is. It is present- but it is not you.

This is stranger for you and those like you than it is for us. Unprecedented and strange, but we are familiar with most of the base notes that make up this strangeness. You've no such advantage. If you have need of me, or have more questions- I am always available to you. To all of you.

Have you closed any rifts or been near veilfire since you've arrived? Anything that might cause it to react strongly.

[ It is a hand. And it is a shard, and where the two meet-

There should be an injury, flesh reacting as flesh does when something unwanted, unwelcome embeds itself within. But there is no infection, no tension. ]

I expected as much. [Her voice was soft, but less sad than accepting. She'd been prepared for that answer, as difficult as it was.> But thank you.

And if I can offer any help with that, I would like to. I don't know much about rifts or the Fade, but I'm willing to learn and help.

No, I haven't. I've avoided being near any rifts, so far. I didn't want to aggravate the mark. [He doesn't like to admit it, but he's a little bit afraid of something going awry with it, it's on his dominant hand and all.] What's veilfire?

Fire that is green and has some resonance with the Fade. I fear I cannot offer more than that- but you would know it were you to encounter it. The shards react to it much the same as they do rifts.

At the moment? Observing whatever you see around them and reporting it back would be immeasurably helpful. I am but one woman and cannot be more than one place at once. Not for lack of trying.

Does it ache now?

[ She could do something for that- between exhaustion and her own stress Compassion is not quite as attentive to the pains of others. It is a sad state of affairs. ]

Most have said it settles within a few weeks after arriving- flare ups tend to happen around rifts or veilfire. But as every person is different so too, I expect, are the symptoms.

Then I'd just as soon avoid it, if I can. Do you know if it's very common? Or at least where it appears?

[The more he knows, the better, though he wonders if it's only a matter of time before he really does have to deal with something like a rift, or anything else that might cause a reaction from this thing.]

I last saw it in the Fallow Mire- and have heard of it appearing around Elven ruins. But little more other than that.

I'm glad to hear it's not very common... at least there's that. But these rifts... it seems they could appear almost anywhere, at any time?

[That's... something to majorly be wary of.]

I could not tell you. I have seen two open and there was little sign of what might have happened before they suddenly tore themselves into being. It is something else I hope to learn more of so I might provide better answers.

[ Sabine's gaze is one that soaks in every detail, tracks every frown, pinch, wrinkle, the pace of Adelaide's pen, the notes in her voice. Her report that this is in some way new has the elf glance down at the mark herself, before she crosses her less troublesome over to pick up the tea that was set down with a crude, full-fingered grip that ignores the handle.

She hefts it up, smelling it before sipping it. ]

Non. It hurt, at first, when it marked. Now it bothers, a little, and only sometimes.

[ Her words are clipped, quick, as if to get through this part for some other thing on her mind. ]

An arrowhead I can remove, a lead shot I can remove even when my hands shake and my vision blurs on the edges. This? This I cannot remove. I cannot forget. This is like a sickness; it is within you but not every sickness can be purged from the body so easily, it isn't something I can simply sweat out.

I can do that.

And if anything changes, I'll be sure to let you know.

I hope you're able to uncover those answers. It seems there's a lot that's still unknown about all of this...

[Which is quite troubling.]

[She deserves it just for the honey cakes alone, honestly, but he can't quite stop himself from grinning just for a second or two at that smirk. The grin doesn't last for long, however. While he can't say he's all that surprised that's the first question, it does a good job of shifting his mood to a more sober one, because it has hurt in the past - not all the time, but enough that he's noticed.

It's not something he likes to talk about, mostly because there's times where he's too stubborn for his own good. But...for the sake of research, he decides to swallow some of his pride and admit at least some of the truth.]

Aye, well...there's been some, from time to time. Nothing I can't handle, mind.

Edited 2016-03-16 02:23 (UTC)

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