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[limier]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Wren Coupe
RECIPIENT: All y'all
WHAT: Vital questions
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: Near, far, wherever you are
NOTES: There will be prizes.

Indulge me: The best advice you have received. Explain why, if you choose.

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[indocile]

Learn to compromise. Learn when not to.

[limier]

A hard lesson. What is worthy of the latter?

[aceso]

That I have a will in me stronger than I know. That I will not be ready for what is to come, so I must become ready to face the darkness and defend what is mine. And to remember that I can do it, because I am never truly alone.

[limier]

Little demands such certainty of us as preparing for its absence. Is it the world that walks at your side, or something else?

[paladingus]

"Vows of celibacy are optional for a reason."

1/2

[limier]

2/2

[limier]

Popular in your abbey, were they?

[circleprodigy]

'The real dangers of the Fade are preconceptions...careless trust...pride. Keep your wits about you, mage. True tests never end.'

[limier]

We'd all do well to learn as much. [ life is long, less so for the unwary. one needn't touch the fade to suffer that much. ] Was that from an Enchanter?

[ she's seldom known them to call each other mage, but. the advice would be peculiar to come from templar or spirit —

a book, perhaps, ]

[gatheringstorm]

'Move your ass!' Because if I hadn't, that bronto would have trampled me.

[Deep, Korrin.]

[limier]

What are the odds that we should have heard the same refrain? Granted, the context I think of involved a donkey —

[ move your ass, get it, get it she's a real comedian ]

Where in the Maker's grace did you encounter a bronto?

[ that's a trick question. every single bronto is outside the maker's grace. ]

[thecookery]

If people think they can take advantage, they will. So make damn well sure it's not you they think it of.

[limier]

And if you would have the advantage of them?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I guess you could say I received it by learning it through a stupidly convoluted story, but...I mean, I dunno that it's the best advice, but it's this:

No matter how bad things may seem, they can't be any better, and they can't be any worse, because that's the way things fucking are, and you better get used to it.

[limier]

Stupidly-convoluted stories are nine-tenths of an education. But it must be working, for I cannot say whether I am reassured or resigned to hear.

Do you believe those circumstances might be improved? Or must the present state of affairs continue indefinitely?

[bouclier]

To do what I want to do with my life, not what is expected of me.

[limier]

And if what you wished to do were immoral, or harmful to others? How do you weigh your desires against the expectations of good judgment and character?

[meds4sale]

Always look to the ones most calm in a crisis.

...For they are often the liars.

[limier]

I have cause to recollect your serenity of late, Monsieur. Is it that we spoke outside of crisis, or that you elude this particular judgment? Is there any point to asking whether another lies?

[kartereo]

See it all through to the end.

Which is cryptic out of context, honestly.

[limier]

The old standards usually are. Would 'muddle on until you simply cannot' be a fair translation?

[justice_is_blond]

Watch out for the mabari; he drools.

[Look, she wouldn't be interested in hearing a real answer from him, right?]

[limier]

My apologies, I seem to be having trouble with this Trade tongue. Mabari? Drool? Foreign words, you understand.

[ unless that advice is along the lines of "this is my super secret weakness that will cause me to immediately recant and decide that you're right forever", not really, no. but plenty of things she isn't interested in are still useful —

— and let's be real, it's not like she's capable of leaving him unanswered. neither of them is. it's why they speak at all. ]

[aventuriere]

Always check the citations for yourself.

And ask forgiveness rather than permission. or better still, neither.

[limier]

I suppose this must explain your most recent venture,

[ hi freddie, glad in an abstract sense that you're still alive ]

The trouble of interrogating sources among the deceased. Are both policies standard of the University?

[elegiaque]

'Keep doing me proud, little bear cub.'

( It took precisely this long to decide she was going to say anything at all that wasn't just mentally fuck off, Coupe. )

[limier]

[ she has all the pieces, though she hasn't remotely thought to put them together — a bear pelt, hardie, asher, asher and bears —

(this last memory: fuzzy. blurred. stained the deep shade of a hangover.)

so it's bizarre on more than one level to find gwen engaging with her now. she's no reason to voice giving a damn for emeric's pride. the mother, perhaps? that pride, wanted or otherwise, has been indicated by its absence. the arcane advisor? maker preserve them all if she's bandying about nicknames, but,

all of this puzzle is a distraction. still, the pause before she speaks may be explained readily enough. when she does, it's as irritatingly level as ever, and she knows the question's loaded. ]

Are you?

[eolasemah]

It doesn't translate well from elvhen, but... to the effect of 'don't think you know more than the halla'. They lead lives of peaceful certainty and there is wisdom in emulating them.

[limier]

[ "until someone shoots them in the ass and mounts the horns above their fireplace" is probably not a politic response.

after all, she likes sina. ]

To live without doubt is a rare blessing, indeed. Your kin keep a herd with the Inquisition, do they not? How have they taken the move?

[intruthandlove]

Before I left my home the first time, my mother told me "Don't forget who you are." ...Which in retrospect is a bit prophetic, since that is exactly what she did once or twice.

[limier]

Metaphorically, or literally?

[ one's much more comfortable ground ]

[universal_charm]

Respect the chair.

[limier]

[ what ]

You may need to explain.