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[colecomfort]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Cole
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Cole has found a pet. It might be someone else's. Or it might be his.
WHEN: Current (Solace 22nd)
WHERE: Sent from a little ways outside Skyhold
NOTES: n/a

There's... a nug out here.

There are lots of nugs out here. Restless rustling in the bushes, foraging for food, tiny ones learning how to run and hide. This one's different.

She's wearing boots. They're bright, and red.

Someone must have made them. Nugs aren't born with boots.

She isn't lost. She doesn't know she's meant to be anywhere else. But someone might be missing her.

Comments

[colecomfort]

But you haven't seen her yet.

[qunari]

She's a nug in bright red boots. Not that hard to imagine, kid.

A little too easy, maybe.

[colecomfort]

[Ah, well, if we're working on imagining...]

The boots are pointed. Upturned toes on the ends, like a lady's slipper. A slipper dropped in a puddle at the edge of the estate, the father fraught -- "She went this way." "We'll find her."

[qunari]

Think our girl ran away from home?

[colecomfort]

She didn't lose a slipper.

She almost ran from the wolves. She didn't. She was smart. They would have seen, and chased her.

[qunari]

Huh. Didn't think they came in clever.

[colecomfort]

It helps that they never got too close. I chased them off before they could.

[qunari]

Bet she's more than a little grateful.