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

[issala]

One-thousand? A great deal older?

...do the healers know you're out of bed?

[not_the_question]

Ah... My race is... very long-lived.

[Him in particular.]

If they do, they don't seem overly concerned.

[issala]

So... you're a rifter?

[It still sounds like you're crazy, dude.]

[not_the_question]

[He's never hid it. Well, not recently anyhow.]

Not like the people from Thedas talk like I do....

[issala]

Crazy people talk in a lot of different ways. It's kinda hard to see the difference at first, since Rifter worlds can be so very strange compared to ours.

[not_the_question]

I never said I wasn't crazy.

[There are plenty in his universe that would call him such.]

[issala]

Ooookay...

[This is the sound effect of someone backing awaaaay.]

[not_the_question]

What? What's wrong?

[issala]

I don't talk to crazy people, okay?

[not_the_question]

I never said I was sane... But mind telling me what I've said that was crazy this time?

[issala]

You're literally telling me you're crazy.

[not_the_question]

Well, a bit mad. But everyone is mad compared to anyone else.

[issala]

You're not making much sense.

[not_the_question]

That's nothing new either. No one here understands me ever.

[issala]

[He sighs at that. Are you hearing yourself, dude?]

[not_the_question]

What now?