[ CLOSED ] Loose lips endanger children

[ombranera]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Zevran Arainai
RECIPIENT: Mia Rutherford, Vivienne, Pel Ashra, Anders, Leliana, Alejandro
WHAT: SOMEONE TOLD
WHEN: After a mysterious delivery
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Message is sent individually rather than as a group broadcast, consider this a series of private calls/conversations. There will be swearing

I have trusted you with my greatest treasure and secret and while, yes, I have come to the decision that I will be keeping Luciano and raising him myself here in Skyhold and that I am comfortable allowing people I trust come to know of him-

That does not mean I am comfortable of random envoys being sent to deliver knit goods and gold to my doorstep!

Now not only does the man sent them know, that envoy knows. An Orlesian envoy- who are not known for their discretion or integrity in the face of pain or bribery. I should know, I threatened their employer from them with little more than a glare. Whomever they might have spoken to on the way to Skyhold might know!

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[ombranera]

Alejo...

[ Don't even kid. ]

If it will keep him from shrieking when bored? I will be happy to see them.

[arachnophobe]

C'mon, I wouldn't even let Noah keep anything more than a dagger, and he was nineteen. [Of course, in retrospect, maybe if he'd let him have more, things would have been better. Anyway.] Lucci isn't getting anywhere near a weapon, far as I'm concerned.

Then I'll drop them off. Without a fuckin' envoy.

[ombranera]

Good, good. You know, months ago? Alistair joked about my having 'little zevrans with their little knives' and I told him they would not even have toy weapons. I want Lucci to grow as a child should. Far from death, far from pain.

[ There's a soft sound on the other side, a burble of laughter. Zevran tickling his child. ]

Stay awhile? He likes you.

[arachnophobe]

You know, that's why I wasn't all that worried about you having a kid to raise. [They've both experienced different ways it shouldn't happen, for as little as Alejandro knows of Zevran's childhood he does know he was of the Crows -- and that is enough.] And why I think you're gonna do just fine by him.

Sure. Hard to say no to his cute face.

[ombranera]

I- thank you, ALejo. That is worth a great deal.

I also owe you a massage, yes? You can bring your gifts, I can rub your arm, all will be well.

[ And he can forget about Michel and the gold for a little while. ]

[arachnophobe]

You're welcome. You're gonna do right by him.

Hell, now I definitely can't turn that down.

[ombranera]

I would hope not! [ Zevran crackles a soft laugh. ]We shall see you shortly, yes?