CRYSTALS | Open

[aestivation]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: ya boy
RECIPIENT: all of you
WHAT: is your sending crystal running you better go catch it
WHEN: vaguely Post-Island
WHERE: kirkwall
NOTES: i'm cool with transitioning this into a mini-log if anyone actually wants to go look!

A sending crystal is missing from the storerooms.

[ the inflection's shallow, and oddly-placed — as though someone speaking across a great, flat distance. ]

The assignment records were last updated three days ago; they don't account for its absence. I've completed a search of the Gallows towers, excluding restricted and residential areas.

[ not for lack of trying. no one spoke of privacy before the rebellion. ]

I’d ask your escort through these, or barring this, that you keep an eye open within any shared living quarters and workspaces. If you've information to contribute, please inform Casimir Lyov, in Research.

I am, [ a pause. ] distinctive.

Comments

[aestivation]

A scandal must be spoken of.

[ he pauses at how to explain, whether he’s able. the moratorium will have ended with Hasmal, but like any command, it lingers at the corner of his thoughts. ]

I conducted unsanctioned research, and chose Tranquility. [ it doesn't occur to name the other option. that's always been the other option. ] I was not to discuss details within the Circle.

[rowancrowned]

Was it blood magic, [ he asks, ] or any other scandal that could besmirch my reputation or the Inquisition's by association?

[ unsaid, but felt: otherwise, he doesn't care. ]

[aestivation]

My work regarded possession; I have never practiced blood magic.

[rowancrowned]

Then I see no potential conflicts. I look forward to working together.