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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

[fleurdesel]

...I did not intend to make light. There are no true comparisons that might be drawn in this due to what the shards are, what they do, but that? Was the closest I could make.

[ Something lost under the skin that cannot be removed, present, foreign, but not of Araceli's bone or flesh. ]

[foxsays]

[It's a long time before Araceli replies, silence on her end as if she's decided she's done but eventually, one long cursing fit later, she returns. Not exactly calmer but a little hoarse and tired instead.]

Forgive me, that was rude of me. This is...this is a lot and I am not exactly as I was, as my parents made me.

[fleurdesel]

[ She'd gone back to other questions, other answers, buried deep in trying to find a pattern in her notes when Araceli's message comes. On her end it takes but a moment to reply. ]

You have a right to it. Thedas is strange and difficult enough for those of us born here. That you are weathering it with this much grace is remarkable. I could not were I in your shoes.