CRYSTAL | maybe you should wait.

[poleaxed]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Jone
RECIPIENT: Y'all
NOTES: Comments may be spicy.

Is anybody dreaming of getting back topside? Know I am. Blimey, a sweaty fucking pit, is Orzammar.

We've a tennis court. That's jeu de paume for the rest of you. [Her Orlesian is surprisingly not terrible.] It ought to be finished by the time we're back. I know, I know, you don't like to train in the yard, it hurts your knees or your bloody feelings. That's what the court's for. Let's play a game and get your stamina up, aye?

Noticed we've had some new folk lately, and I wanna say again: I'm Jone, the six-foot-bitch in the training yard with the red hair. I'll train you, and I'll do it right. You ain't for swords, we'll find what you're for. Free fucking service, you only have to make an effort.

Think of it this way: if you work hard enough, get strong enough, one day you'll get to break me nose.

Comments

[molineux]

Are you quite proficient in it then?

[wythersake]

Famously uncoordinated, I fear.

[molineux]

Oh dear. And no chance of improvement?

[wythersake]

Ah, you know how it is. One misses a swing. Forgive me, I don't believe we've been acquainted.

[molineux]

My name is Margaery, recent rifter. Who do I have the pleasure of speaking to?

[wythersake]

Isaac. Ancient native, or so I am occasionally told.

[molineux]

Ancient? Is it a magical quality of this land that makes you sound as youthful as you do?

[wythersake]

Only the most vile sorcery.

[molineux]

Should I fear you then, Isaac?

[wythersake]

Do you spook so easily?

[molineux]

Only when there's no worth in bravery. Motivations are usually my deciding factor.

[wythersake]

Ah, but then we must test your mettle — somewhere suitably daring. There is to be a show of paintings in Hightown this coming evening, and I am told the work dreadful.

[molineux]

I do relish the opportunity to showcase my courage against nightmarish works of art. Where may I find you to offer you my chivalrous company for this show?

[wythersake]

Let us say the gardens, perhaps half past five?

[molineux]

I'll see you there.