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[hlif]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Asher Hardie
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: How not to freeze to death: slankets
WHEN: Late Guardian
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: Feel free to just come find him at any point, or back at Skyhold because he took a trip back to pick up letters ssh timelines shh

Right I'll get straight to the point: there's a lot of really mad wildlife in Emprise du Lion, and I do just mean the wildlife right now though why you'd want to live in a frozen shithole is beyond me, and it's cold, and I'm willing to bet not all of you are exactly used to this sort of thing.  So, for a reasonable price or deal unless we already worked something out, I've got bear and wolf pelt blankets.  Now Asher, I hear you ask, what's so special about these blankets, well the thing is, most people get rid of the head and have something that'd look nice spread on the floor but my blankets?  They have sleeves.  And hoods.  Bear and wolf hoods.  I think you see where I'm going with this, right?  I've got plenty of pelts and I expect I'll find more so if you want a blanket, let me know and I'll get it sorted.  Want a regular blanket?  Boring but you can get that too, or mittens for those long boring nights freezing your arse off on watch duty.  If you just want the pelt?  We can arrange that too and other giblets and what have you, say for instance you need bear balls for some potion or tonic, I won't judge.  

[Everyone has to have a hobby and he was raised not to be wasteful.]

Of course if you keep an eye out for the one and only Christine Delacroix, you won't have to take my word for it and she does a damn fine job modelling what's sure to be the latest in Orlesian winterwear. Unless you want to freeze and lose your bits and pieces to frostbite.

Comments

[ungovernable]

Lady Thevenet.

( proper businessman, proper lady. )

[hlif]

Well I'll make sure to practice my curtsey for you, unless you're unoffended by the unwashed.

[Look it's cold here. A rub in the snow is the best he's done for a while.]

[ungovernable]

We are all of us obliged to make sacrifices, here in the Emprise.

( among other places. but here, specifically, bathing is kind of a problem. )

[hlif]

And what is a lady doing here? Easier ways to see how the other half live, more comfortable too. Your lot aren't known for sensible shoes.

[Well he could carve a nice hole in that frozen river if anyone feels a particularly desperate urge and the dragons are all gone now. If you don't mind bathing with some bronto and gurn skeletons that is.]

[ungovernable]

( a polite laugh - measured, but not false. )

Indeed we are not. I do not care for these southern climates, I don't deny it. But the work to be done is here, and therefore, so am I.

[hlif]

Work. You actually know what the word is and how to say it.

[Colour him amazed. Ignore that the crystal picks up him muttering ‘fucking incredible’ under his breath.]

[ungovernable]

( she does, although the hint of her humour lingers. )

I leave to others the judgment of whether that knowledge is any more extensive.

( no, she doesn't. but asserting how hard she works like she has something to prove - if you have something to prove, you should probably hashtag just do it. )

[hlif]

If you're out here, I've no doubt that no one's going to care if they hurt your feelings if they think you're not pitching in enough.

First chance I have to nab a great bear, you'll get dibs.

[Better fur and warmer but well, regular boring bears it is. They're the warm up to the main challengers.]

[ungovernable]

( a laugh is the only answer to the first part. feelings are a luxury, not a right...is something that she has often wanted to say to her lazier, self-pitying peers, but, well. the satisfaction it would get her is a luxury, too, and there's work to be done. )

And I shall pay you handsomely for them.