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FORM: Sending crystal.
SENDER: Twisted Fate.
RECIPIENT: Everyone!
WHAT: The party returns, and Fate has a request.
WHEN: Backdated to Cloudreach 29.
WHERE: Skyhold.
NOTES: N/A

Ah, Skyhold. Terribly good to be back home. I'm certain you all missed me, didn't you?

In any case.

Clan Frandruil has notified me that they wish to send halla our way. Terribly considerate of Keeper Shoshanna to show such gratitude. I don't particularly care what the Inquisition wishes to do with them, so I defer to those part of Clan Ashara. They are yours, as far as I am concerned.

In any case, something of more immediate concern and interest to me: I've received a mark from the rift we dealt with. As terribly excited as I am to be blessed with this, I'd like to do a little more research on this. [And maybe remove it, but he has a feeling that's impossible.] Those of you already familiar with your own magical glowing green marks, please, enlighten me with whatever you know.

And before I forget: Sera, I've placed your things back in the room in the tavern. If you happen to find anything of mine left in there, it's yours to do with.

I think that ought to do it. I'll be in the tavern, drinking myself silly.

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I received one in Orlais.

( although she'd not bothered to respond to the broadcast initially - whatever with your elf bullshit - gwen has been paying attention on the offing someone said anything interesting about the rift shards. )

We're all terribly impressed.

( can you hear someone roll their eyes??? )

[what do you think the ears are for]

In Orlais? That must have been dreadful. [After all, from what she knows of it, Orlais is supposedly one of Thedas' more cultured civilizations; one wouldn't expect to have to worry about demons or anything like that there.] May I ask how it happened?

( gwen would like to confirm that view of orlais as one hundred percent correct. assessment may contain bias, as the orlesian accent might suggest. )

A rift opened - my carriage was run off the road, and we were attacked. A shard from the rift embedded in my hand before I was rescued.

So they can just... open up anywhere. I'm so sorry. At least you were rescued, so there's that.

I wonder if anyone has been tracking them. Where they open, when... discover some sort of pattern. I imagine that would be a bit difficult, but it might be worth it to help prevent future cases like yours.

A healer saw to my injuries when I arrived here.

( and that was an experience in and of itself for someone accustomed to physicians. )

I couldn't guess at if they're tracked, but I suppose it would be a project of great value.

That's good. I'm glad you were able to be patched up.

[She's heard too many stories about how death and killing is just a normal thing here in Thedas, and Hermione doesn't ever want to get to the point where she won't be genuinely glad to hear that someone - even a stranger - has made it out of a tight spot in one piece.]

I should bring that up to someone. Leliana, perhaps. She seems like the sort of person who'd most likely first hear about a rift opening.