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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Josephine Montilyet
RECIPIENT: Everyone!
WHAT: A question! (Please talk to her, she's lonely.)
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: n/a

Good evening, everyone. My name is Josephine Montilyet and I am the Ambassador for the Inquisition. I've not had the pleasure of meeting as many of you as would like personally, so... I thought this might be an easier, more - ah - approachable way of getting to know each other better.

( She clears her throat as though to prevent herself from rambling. )

I must confess I do not know where to start. Perhaps a conversational ice-breaker will have to do. ( So much for not rambling. ) What do you miss most about your life before the Inquisition?

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I miss the sea as well. ( And her family, but she doesn't say it in the hopes that it will be a given. )

Where was it that you used to live?

Castileos. Beyond the rifts. [Not that she really needs to add that but...it can't be helped.]

It's close enough to let me pass for Antivan with a dash of Rivaini on the surface.

Ah! ( Josephine's tone grows more excitable, as it often does when she talks with rifters. )

Have you had much opportunity to see the seas and oceans of Thedas? It would be interesting to know how they compare to those of other worlds.

I've been to Antiva twice and Rivain once, I was in Dairsmuid for much of Solace.

[How does she phrase this politely to the ambassador when she was just complaining about to Church…]

I come from a nation of sailors, my father is a captain and my home country is a series of islands that would sprawl farther than the main chunk of Thedas. Very little of the seas have been explored here, it seems. We have roamed and mapped every inch of our world only to keep finding new islands and archipelagos.

That sounds marvelous. I wish I could say the same of this world. While I often wonder what might lie beyond the sea, few share my curiosity.

I cannot imagine that. To not want to know what's out there. But all our tales are that we came from the sea, we built atop the ruins from below, and some of our truest sailors are called Sons of the Sea. [A small sigh escapes her, not wholly sad the way she sometimes is but still full of longing.]

Do you know why so few share your curiosity?

Simply put, I believe it is fear. Fear of the unknown changing our way of life. ( She sighs. )

It is a pity.

Fear seems to have controlled so much of the history of Thedas. There could be untold wonder out there just waiting for a brave enough woman. [Because let's be honest, Araceli isn't going to ever trust a man to do a woman's job.]

There are many sailors like my father who have never spent a whole day or night on dry land. Always on their ships, always on the waves. That is the only life they have ever known.

Always? I cannot even begin to imagine such a life. I have never been much for the open water myself. ( She likes looking at it, she likes wondering, but actually being on a boat is another matter. )

No? I went with him sometimes. When you climb up the rigging you can see further than you can from the top of Skyhold on a clear day. [Which she would know since she's the climbing instructor anyway but she knows every inch of the walls and rooftops.] There was always work to be done. Spreading the word, ferrying cargo, guarding the whales from far less scrupulous souls. There sea is never the same one day to the next, no matter what anyone might say. It's constant, but always changing.

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