Accidentally Public

[mythalenaste]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: EVERYONE (accidentally; intended for Varric)
WHAT: Varric hired Pel to give him opinions on his new chapters. She delivers.
WHEN: The day after the funeral
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Spoilers for the next chapter of Swords and Shields

Varric, this is really silly.

First off, the knight-captain can't just escape this complex web you've spun because something even more sinister killed everyone else.

Second, she can't be pregnant. Her lover is a woman. And don't say it's blood magic. You only get to use the blood magic excuse once a serial.

Maybe you should keep writing the next Hard in Hightown?

Comments

[mythalenaste]

It's rubbish, isn't it? At least if everyone's heard what I've said it means he has to change it.

[fleurdesel]

I should hope so. If something is fit to make Camille weep I would have it be something worthwhile. Not...this.

[mythalenaste]

Well, that's why he has me. To make it better.

[fleurdesel]

An invaluable service I am certain, if this is what you are preventing. On behalf of my apprentices, I thank you.

[mythalenaste]

No need. He's paying me a lot.

[fleurdesel]

As well he should if you're being subjected to rubbish like that.

[mythalenaste]

It's not that bad. It's no worse than our current lives, and that's what's important.

[fleurdesel]

Escapism isn't worth much if it's worse than what you are attempting to escape I suppose. Continue the good work, fight the good fight.


And please make him explain the pregnancy, currently it sounds ridiculous.

[mythalenaste]

I can't make him do anything, least of all on the command of someone who's not even going to read the book.

[fleurdesel]

A critical recommendation, perhaps?

I have to finish the other two, I was in the middle of the first when...well. Life happened.

[mythalenaste]

You're reading Swords and Shields?

[fleurdesel]

It is not so bad with a glass of wine at the end of a long day. Light reading, though I do not think I am nearly as emotionally invested as my apprentices.

[mythalenaste]

...Sorry for spoiling it, I guess.

[fleurdesel]

I'll survive, I'm sure. Especially if he changes it.

[mythalenaste]

Next time I'll just write him a note. Those are never...lost in places where people can find them and tell everyone about them.

[fleurdesel]

The sending crystals are tricky. I don't even know how one would go about making a message private.

[mythalenaste]

I thought I had it worked out, but I hadn't. I'll leave it to the mages with more time on their hands than I have.

[fleurdesel]

If anyone sorts it out and shares, I'll pass it along.

[mythalenaste]

Thank you.