Sending crystal announcement

[mythalenaste]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Announcing the publication of her first book
WHEN: After Weisshaupt/Western Approach things calm down a bit
WHERE: Skyhold

[A somewhat monotone voice is heard over the crystals.]

It's Pel. Of Clan Ashara. I've written a book and it's published now. It's about Dalish culture. I will be selling it at my yarn shop until the new Divine is elected, at which point it will be banned because it's a book about elves written by an elf. So buy it while you can.

[What? She's not a hawker. She's not a beggar, either.

She'll hang around on the crystal in case anyone has questions.]

Comments

[judgemewhole]

Oh, all right. I can wait. Will I need to pay extra?

[mythalenaste]

I left my clan. To do this.

[It's not spoken impatiently, just slowly. Maybe she was going too fast, before.]

[the_effect_she_has]

I'll stop saying it when you start believing it.

[arsebiscuit]

The shit she throws at me have to worth something, yeah?

[mythalenaste]

No...? Is that traditional, to charge people extra for buying things at a different time than they would have?

[arsebiscuit]

[This may be an important moment.

For some.

For Sera? It's laughing time]

Oh! You're the wrong kinda elf yourself now, yeah? Now I get it.

[mythalenaste]

There isn't a wrong kind of elf. [Now she sounds a little irritated.] And I'm still Dalish, I'm just without a clan.

[judgemewhole]

Well, typically you would charge someone for shipping fees so you don't have to pay them. Perhaps a little extra on top of that, if you are looking to make a slightly larger profit margin for yourself.

[Once the son of a merchant king, always the son of a merchant king.]

Private

[justice_is_blond]

And literally too. Everyone likes candy.

[arsebiscuit]

Sure. That kinda talk's why you're out of clan.

[scalethewall]

The Keepers' Inquisition? Does everyone have a bloody inquisition these days?

You are assuming a lot though, what would I get out of Dalish secrets, hm? Sounds like I'm paying you to get me into trouble. I do that well enough on my own.

[mythalenaste]

[Pel cuts herself off before reiterating that she's the one who left.]

What's your point?

[mythalenaste]

But you would like my kind of trouble.

[Yep. That was flirting.]

[arsebiscuit]

Book got the shit parts? The bits you left over in it?

[mythalenaste]

It's...it's not a biography. There are definitely shit parts in it, and some of them are reasons I left, but it's not about me or my feelings. If you'd like the bits I left over, it's better to save your money and just ask me.

[mythalenaste]

I'll believe it when it sells.

[arsebiscuit]

So more edited history.

[mythalenaste]

Not edited, it's just...it's not a book about me. It's not a book about...about Merrill, or any other number of individual elves. There's only so much that can go in a book.

[arsebiscuit]

So when's that book?

[mythalenaste]

When it doesn't hurt as much as it does now.

[arsebiscuit]

Right. Send a note when it's honest.

[mythalenaste]

[There's the sound of a book opening, pages being flipped.]

"To be a Keeper or apprentice is a painful sacrifice of self. It means the wellbeing of the self is secondary to that of someone else, anyone else, whatever the need. I have been Keeper's First from a very young age. When I was nine years old, a plague came to our clan. It was my task at that time to tend to the sick and dying, and aid in the burial of the dead. Duty among the Dalish does not know age, size, or strength. It is expected that a Keeper or apprentice will find the strength needed at the time they need it, with nothing given back."

That's why I left. If that's not a sensational enough exposée for you, go get your excitement from someone else. You don't have any business poking around for my personal story when you haven't even given me your name.

[arsebiscuit]

Sera. Of the Jennys. Life's hard all around, yeah? But most of us just try and make it less of a bitch, 'stead of writing books about the people that don't give a shit about us.

Ask your old clan if they want a book on them out there before you start shitting on the Divine, yeah? That name means something to most of us. And bet the Dalish burn it first.

[mythalenaste]

Look. If the Dalish hurt you, I'm sorry. But if all you're going to do is stand around and make up more reasons to hate me, fuck off. Nobody's making you buy the book.

[arsebiscuit]

You started it with the same old song and dance about the Divine. So you had to help people as a kid. Don't count as honest.