oo1. If we get to too much talking, I might have to tell you something

[notathreat]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Ellie
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: N/A

Anybody got any leads on good art supplies around here? Paints, brushes, canvas? I'll take chalks and inks and charcoals, too.

Willing to trade archery lessons. Or riding lessons, griffons or otherwise.

Comments

[muckspout]

Don't really have any supplies right now, but would help you once you find them.

I am a great artist.

[The latter statement is said with as much importance that can be offered by a man who is usually covered in mud.]

[notathreat]

[Look, Ellie spends a good deal of time covered in a fine layer of dirt herself, so she can't judge when it comes to artistry.]

Yeah? You paint? What kinds of stuff?

[muckspout]

A griffon and a merhorse. One was so good it became a design on a boat.

[Obviously the mark of real talent.]

[notathreat]

[Obviously. It's like a fantasy billboard.]

Okay, that's pretty freaking cool. Is it in the harbor? I gotta see that.

[muckspout]

Not anymore. Boat was sold. To a prince!

[This seems like an unlikely story, but it's true!]

[notathreat]

Oh shit.

[HER DUDE IS LEGIT.]

Okay, if he ever visits Kirkwall, you need to point it out to me.

[muckspout]

[Too legit to quit.]

will do just that. Let me know when you found your art supplies. Want to see your art too!

[notathreat]

You bet. Make sure you bring some of yours, I wanna see.

[muckspout]

Well, if it's not all given away to princes, I will do that.

[notathreat]

H'okay, mister highbrow.

[She might be teasing him, but that's a mark of affection for her.]

[muckspout]

[A choked HA of pure offense, presumably accompanied by a delicate hand to the chest, but of course Ellie cannot see this via crystal.]

The last thing I am is highbrow! Simply in demand.

[notathreat]

By princes.

[Which confers a certain veneer of respectability!]

[muckspout]

Can't help who was interested in it! Not like I am exclusive to princes!

[The very idea!]

[notathreat]

Open to a princess or two?

[Teasing, TEASING.]

[muckspout]

[Wryly.]

Depends on the princess.

[notathreat]

Got any in mind?

[muckspout]

Not usually. They have to come to me.