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

[the_effect_she_has]

Save me one.

[mythalenaste]

Of course.

[the_effect_she_has]

I'm planning on getting a second bookshelf, you know. Just for your books. So keep writing, please.

[mythalenaste]

I'm no Varric Tethras, but I will.

[the_effect_she_has]

Nope, you're Pel Ashara, author and scholar. A great writer in her own right.

[mythalenaste]

You don't...you really don't need to say things like that.

[the_effect_she_has]

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

[mythalenaste]

I'll believe it when it sells.

[the_effect_she_has]

You're on.

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[mythalenaste]

Who is your entitled city friend, anyway?

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[the_effect_she_has]

Oh, that's Sera. You know, one of the Inner Circle. She's all right -- she just has this bizarre hatred of elves. You should have seen her with Twisted Fate's clan. Like Buttercup if someone threw water on him.

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[mythalenaste]

So why does she insist on talking to elves if she hates us so much?

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[the_effect_she_has]

Honestly? I think she's trying to find reasons not to hate elves. She reminds me a lot of myself when I first came to the Inquisition.

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[mythalenaste]

...Are there any other people who have to justify their existence to her?

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[the_effect_she_has]

Mages. Templars. Nobles.

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[mythalenaste]

She has far too much time on her hands.

When'll you be by?

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[the_effect_she_has]

As soon as I am finished struggling with this report for the Nightingale.

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[mythalenaste]

Bring it. I'll help.

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[the_effect_she_has]

I wouldn't mind someone checking over the spelling errors.

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[mythalenaste]

Is spelling all you're struggling with?

[Reports can be beasts. Tedium alone makes Pel hate them.]

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[the_effect_she_has]

No ... it's ... I'm making it too personal. I've been making all my reports too personal. I seem to be bleeding personal feelings all over the damned place in my writing.

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[mythalenaste]

Come on. We'll go over it together.