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[fleurdesel]

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.

Comments

[wontforgetyou]

[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.

[fleurdesel]

On a scale of 'an ant has bitten my pinky' to 'Andraste's flaming ass, a bear has bitten off my hand' where would that pain fall?

[ None of the others got something quite so colorful, but none of the others were Jamie whom she has seen and fought alongside since the first batch of strangeness. Someone that's seen her well and seen her low and hasn't changed how he's treated her no matter where she might stand or what's happened with mages in the Inquisition.

It's refreshing. Priceless. If all it costs are a dance and tea now and then, honey cakes when she can spare them in return for his regard? It is a price she'll happily pay. ]

[wontforgetyou]

[His mouth twitches a bit at 'Andraste's flaming ass', but he manages to more or less keep a straight face otherwise as he waits for her to finish the question. When he answers, though, he can't quite keep the corners of his mouth from turning up.]

Usually I'd say it's more of a dull sort of ache, but every once in awhile it's 'an Ice Warrior's hit me over the head and I'm just waking up from it' sort of pain. Usually after I use it to close a rift, but the worst of it goes away after a bit. It reacts when it's near rifts, too, though. That's different. It's more a sharp sort of flare then, and that's strong enough that'll it'll wake me up if I'm sleeping.

[fleurdesel]

Considering not much else might...

[ They've shared a tent before, in the mire- they might joke about such things. Couldn't they? They could. The nuances of friendship outside of the Spire are on occasion difficult, but here at least she thinks she might manage well enough. ]

How many rifts have you closed with it?

[wontforgetyou]

Aye, I know. That's why I mentioned it.

[They can absolutely joke about that sort of thing, and he's outright grinning at her - at least for a few seconds. Her question isn't meant to be funny, though, and once she asks it, a more serious expression replaces the grin.]

I've only closed the two, at least for now. I was going to see about going to close a third but someone else took a different group out to close that one. I've been thinking I need to see about closing more, though.

[fleurdesel]

Has there been much change in it? The size, the shape, the intensity of pain?

[ Does using it worsen the condition, make things less stable, change a man's ability to dream? She notes all this down dutifully, pausing only to take sips of tea and look to Jamie with a concern that goes beyond the professional. A softness around her eyes, a tightening of her lips.

She does not have so many friends as to see one lost gladly. ]

[wontforgetyou]

There's not been any change in the size or shape of it, least not that I've noticed.

[If it was small and subtle, though, he could very well have missed it, and the thought of it gets him to glance down at his hand with a faint frown. It looks the same to him, though, so maybe there's not been much change there at all.]

But...after I've closed rifts with it, I can feel it more. It aches more, for a bit. And there's the tiredness, too, come to think of it. Sort of like what you get when whole lot of work over a day? Only it hits you all at once, and you realize just how tired you really are.