youwonscience: (take a ladder to the shadows)
Cosima Niehaus ([personal profile] youwonscience) wrote in [community profile] therookery 2024-07-16 12:24 am (UTC)

I get that. You stepped in it, but it's not 100% your fault. There are lots of times people would have just rolled their eyes or made a sarcastic comment or something, you just hit an especially sensitive moment. And, like, I think people who aren't rifters sometimes ... My world doesn't have any magic, as far as I know. It was a bit of a learning curve, people forget it can be a lot to take in.

But hey, it sounds like you hooked up with Viktor, who I was totally going to recommend to you. And it's not like you're wrong about mobility broadly. When I first came to Kirkwall, I was dealing with a lung disease, the stairs weren't a picnic even if my legs worked fine. There are worse things to be than enthusiastic. You just let it carry you into not reading the room, which is something you can recover from, for sure.

[It's not that the mistake wasn't real, but it's one Cosima finds easier to sympathize with than some others. She'd rather a new rifter be genuinely interested in the Gallows than pretend this world somehow didn't matter.]

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