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FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé (and with him, as always, is Jehan Mercier)
RECIPIENT: e v e r y o n e
WHAT: the scholars of Orlais have something to say.
WHEN: now, right now
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: aren't they charming.

Inquisition, we are confused.

[Melodious, Orlesian, flirtatious (somehow even in this most simple of sentences): these are three words one might use to describe the sound of Val's voice. It makes confused sound kind of fun, if a bit puzzling.]

My friend and I have come all this way to be an asset to you. And now we have arrived here, to your Skyhold, and we find so much to be in want. How have you all managed so far, with these conditions? I am a man used to the roughness of a camp, a life of travel. I love this life. You'll find no one loves it more than me. But a camp, that is one thing, and this? It is meant to be a city, of a sort. Yet there is no apartment for us. There is barely a work space, in your library--we have been, my friend and I. We have seen the conditions. There is barely a book there.

I am sorry for you, Inquisition.

[So sincere. A pause, in which he has pressed a hand to his chest, in a deep show of pity. And then, briskly, cheerfully:]

But we will not leave you there, in sorrow. The good news. You now have, among your numbers, me. An introduction: Valentine de Foncé, a master architect, among many other masteries, too numerous to name. If you ask sweetly, I'll tell you them all. If you ask very sweetly, I'll give demonstration. And for the Inquisition, I will offer my services, and my knowledge--and so, too, does my friend. If only so we can get a decent space in which we can do our work. And believe me: you want this. We have arrived to be your greatest blessing.

Now, tell me. With business sorted: what does anyone do for fun around here?

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If you're not here to fix shit, then what use are you? We got plenty of stuck-up nobles already.

Not like me you haven't.

Besides, I prefer to build far more than I do to repair.

Ugh.

[The most teenagery 'ughs' ever.]

People like you are gonna make my horns fall off.

[ok wait]

Horns?

Uh... yeah?

[Kas honey not everyone's used to qunari. You should remember that.]

That would make you either frightfully disfigured... or one of the Qunari.

You got a problem with qunari?!

Historically it has been the Qunari who have a problem with me. As is evident by the immediate offense that you took to my question which was, if you look at it again, incredibly benign. After all, I said 'disfigured or one of the Qunari'. Not and. A critical conjunction.

I have a problem with people who judge just because you're not human. What does my race have to do with anything?

Well, for starters, it helps to explain the horns.

...and?

And your predisposition toward disliking me. Is it a scent thing?

FUCK YOU!

Perhaps you should age a little--and come to dislike me less, though I will admit to being intrigued by the suggestion.

You do know I was implying that I had a smell about me, yes? Not you.

I'm not some kind of fucking animal that can smell you, you fuckin' racist prick.

You need not be an animal, my friend. The smell is very strong.

Edited (pungent is too big a word for small Qunari brains kiss kiss heart heart) 2016-07-11 22:00 (UTC)

You can go screw yourself, too.

[Grr snarl hiss.]

Edited (sadface did not go with that) 2016-07-11 23:27 (UTC)

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apologist - 2016-07-11 23:39 (UTC) - Expand

You love it.

apologist - 2016-07-12 03:51 (UTC) - Expand

degenere - 2016-07-12 04:09 (UTC) - Expand

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degenere - 2016-07-12 04:48 (UTC) - Expand

You tell him, Kas. And then find me, we'll take our minds off this crap.

It better be booze.

gatheringstorm - 2016-07-11 23:37 (UTC) - Expand

Oh, fuck you and take your bigotry elsewhere. We don't need that shit in Skyhold.

That is a less brutal overreaction, but still an overreaction.

When you've lived with it all your life, not really. Leave the kid alone.

I would very much like to understand, but I don't understand what's been lived with. Questions? How does anything ever get done if questions are neither asked nor answered?

Guesswork?

I've heard the same crap from people before, only to try to turn it around to justify patronizing bigotry, so excuse me if I doubt your motives.

We don't exist for your entertainment or enlightenment, you know.

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