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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.

Comments

[limier]

It is a tale only, then? There have been others that speak of it firsthand — the only unity between their accounts seems a lack of any.

How would they interpret this difference with your companion, were we in a story of your home?

[kartereo]

It is as of my current point in time. I don't underestimate the idea of later scientists making it real.

And I think they'd just call it a plot device for a reunion of characters and move on, truthfully.

loling irl

[limier]

[ later scientists, as though they wouldn't inevitably become former, and,

maferath's balls, this is never going to cease being a headache. ]

At times I feel as though we are all trapped in some cheap novel —

I hope only we are the protagonists.

ehehehe

[kartereo]

[That gets a pause, then a short, gruff laugh.]

But what's the ideal end point?

[limier]

Corypheus is defeated, the Venatori fade into obscurity, and I retire to the seaside. Warm sun and sand. Perhaps I take up a hobby — I have heard such fine things of those —

For yourself, Monsieur?

[kartereo]

Home with the giant oaf, I'd hope. [But not likely.]

But tell me, have you considered what hobby you might take up?

[limier]

[ two important bits of information have come of this:
1. iksandar, whoever he is, is apparently large
2. waver gave him a nickname. das cute ]

Not the faintest damn clue.

[ because she intends to do none of it at all. the ideal end point was never a possibility. there will be no beach, there will be no retirement. not if she can bloody well help it. ]

Chess? Can one play chess, against oneself? I could build castles. Collect shells.

[kartereo]

Well, you'd become skilled at playing against yourself. Castles sound fun though. [Wait, hang on.] Sand castles or actual architecture?

[Both sound fun, come to think of it. And an architecture firm is more like firm retirement income.]

[limier]

It would be properly Orlesian of me, would it not?

[ playing against oneself. civil war: chess edition. ]

I suppose that if we speak of stone, I might afford to construct a very, very small castle. Perhaps to house the many homeless ants of Thedas. The Maker smiles upon charity.

[kartereo]

It really would. But it is also predictable, which seems a detriment.

[Besides. Architecture is fun.]

If you wanted to cultivate an air of mystery or strange, you could get us rifters to help with bringing in designs from our homes. [Oooor] Or you could actually build luxury castles for ants. Like bird houses, but even smaller.

[limier]

Predictable, perhaps. But only if your mind is not changeable, no? Are the designs so very different, in your own world?

[ architecture is so fun. it's also never been something within reach. ]

I've a volume on Tevinter structures, if you should rather exchange.

[ it's in tevene. but there are pictures. ]

[kartereo]

They definitely are. The styles here are in our past.

[Waver's not an expert by any means, but he can at least draw.]

You do realize that an exchange mostly means I'm going to be throwing sheets of paper at you and trying to remember technical terms I barely understand, right?

[limier]

Maker, no. Not throwing paper,

[ a small, amused huff. ]

I shall promise to understand them no better than you. Any areas of particular interest, that I might translate ahead of time?

[ because it's a slow fuckin process ]

[kartereo]

Give me two days to find said paper then and have enough for a decent rockslide.

[Stick figures will be included, if only to indicate scale.]

Pick maybe, hm. Two or three things? Translation is less important than just looking at images.

[limier]

Very well. Perhaps something on the Imperial Highway.

In the mean, where should you like your reward delivered? For answering my question — consider it a bribe, if the notion is less tasteless.

[kartereo]

That actually does sound like useful information to have.

[Roads conquer worlds, after all.]

Would you accept an in-person pick up, if we're to see each other anyway?

[limier]

Of course. I am working from quarters at present — if repairs to the libraries have quite finished, that may serve as well. I am most free in the evenings; if this does not suit, perhaps another time might be arranged.

[ she isn't exactly looking for an excuse to beg off of work, it's just. there's like, a lot of it, and it all involves sitting still.

waver's a rifter, that probably means he counts as —

— well, something diplomatic, anyway. the excuse checks out. ]

[kartereo]

A library would be more than suitable. I might uh. Beat you there.

[By which he absolutely means spends an entire day there instead of do literally anything else. That was one of the good things about Thedas - with no classes could teach, Waver could focus on himself and further improving his own skills and knowledge.]