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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

[thecookery]

[A LOUD HUFF.]

Look, I'm about sick of all this play with words. If you've something to say, say it plain, yeah?

[limier]

Very well.

[ you can hear the eyebrows lifting ]

One must take care to avoid driving off all potential allies. The use of isolation extends only to a point, no?

[ is this the most hypocritical shit she's said today? no. but it's up there. ]

[thecookery]

Aye, well, it's a pretty thought. But not all of us can be another way than we are. Even after we're told we ought to.

private;

[limier]

[ she switches the feed, in deference to the subject, ]

Perhaps. But you have spoken rather openly here, for one who'd not be had.

private;

[thecookery]

[It takes Avery a while to respond, now that this switch seems to have turned it weirdly intimate for some reason. She's kinda tempted not to respond at all.]

I don't see as any of it helps with that.

[limier]

[ there are some ways in which wren would prefer not to be publicly seen. there's a point at which probing, philosophical discussions grow a little too pointed to be viewed as benign interest. this is one such point.

orlais is mistrusted enough, here. ]

Does it not? Defensiveness seldom breeds itself without reason. Are you among friends, in the Inquisition?

[thecookery]

...I don't really do friends. Never have.

[Not often at least, and certainly not easy. It's always felt like the rules of that game that come natural to everyone else just didn't come in her instruction manual at all, or came backwards and in another language.

Which might explain the whole pushing people away thing. If they can read her, and she can't read them worth a damn, she is at a severe disadvantage.]

But these people at least seem to be on the right side of things, in the big picture. I do my part, they do theirs, we stay out of each other's way. That's good enough for me.

[limier]

I see.

[ kiddo ]

I doubt any of us might begrudge the assistance. Do they still have you about the kitchens?

[thecookery]

[A grunt.]

In charge of them now, actually.

[She does not sound particularly thrilled about this promotion, but at least this is a topic she's more comfortable with.]

A MILLION YEARS LATE, sorry

[limier]

Difficult to stay out of anyone's way there.

[ a fabulous prize will be delivered to the kitchens later by runner. no explanation will be given. ]