The age-old question

[issala]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Kas
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: More questions
WHEN: Today
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Tiny teen qunari muses about not being tiny any more.

So at what age are you really an adult? I mean, not maturely but like... to other people. You say you 'come of age' and stuff like that but exactly what age is that in Ferelden? Here you can't join the army if you're under seventeen, which is fair. Does that mean you're an adult after seventeen?

I heard some rifter saying you can't drink unless you're eighteen or twenty-one or whatever. Rivain doesn't have a rule like that. I had wine when I was a kid, so I don't see the point of restricting it.

...but, like... at what age are you an adult? How old do you gotta be to marry someone without it being weird?

[Pause.]

Not that I'm marrying anyone!

Comments

[gatheringstorm]

[There's an amused huff, but her tone isn't unkind.] More incentive to hurry the fuck up, right? We gotta fix that.

And exactly! Also, what if the local water's shit, like it is sometimes? If you don't have the time or energy to boil it, booze is the next best thing.

I joined a company on my own at sixteen, so for me that was adulthood. But I was pretty independent before then, and it wasn't this dramatic transition. It just meant my company leader would take their issues to me, not my parents.

[issala]

I would like to... you know... experience things like that. Being close to someone and liking them more than a friend. Someone who looks at me like you look at Araceli.

[You can hear the awkward shrug.]

It sounds like sixteen-seventeen is the general rule here.

[gatheringstorm]

[Aw, Kas. You make her want to hug you.]

You'll get there, Kas. I know it's natural to want to rush things when we're not certain of the future, but good things come to those who wait. It's not like I found Araceli when I was your age.

[issala]

True. Just... I'm scared it will be to late, you know? I could die tomorrow.

[gatheringstorm]

Over my rotting corpse.

[issala]

...that's kinda the point, Korrin.

[gatheringstorm]

You know what I mean. I won't let it happen. [Don't question, just accept that fact.]

And enough dark talk, we should do something to celebrate. You, me, Araceli, whoever else you think should be there.

[issala]

I know.

[He takes a deep breath to shake off the feeling.]

Celebrate what?

[gatheringstorm]

Your birthday, silly. You didn't I was going to let that go unnoticed, did you?

[issala]

Oh. Yeah, that could be fun.

[He sounds a little uncertain - it's new to him.]

[gatheringstorm]

It will be fun. Have a little faith, okay? You deserve a night out with good drinks, good food and good company. If you're not completely exhausted the day after, we did it wrong.

[issala]

Alright, deal!