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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Herian Amsel
RECIPIENT: everyone with a crystal
WHAT: Deep Thoughts & Dogges
WHEN: during Nevarra stuff, prior to the dragon hunt & Necropolis Thriller Reenactment.
WHERE: Nevaaaarra
NOTES: content warning for themes of loss & death. Also just a heads up that Herian is (still) a big jerk about the Dalish and rebels/eager apostates

Inquisition,

( she starts, and then there is a moment of pause. Her accent is stronger than it was before her trip to Starkhaven, renewed by proximity even if it has already softened from what it had been there. She speaks with that same, inevitable control, but she does not sound quite the same type of calm as usual. )

How do you best honour the dead? Recently or long departed. I would be glad to know.

( Just a casual question, nbd.

She sure doesn't sound like "glad" should be a description of her ever, but maybe given the content she can be forgiven. There's a small bark, and though it cannot be seen, rest assured that Herian is frowning at the source. There is a measured pause, before Herian adds, )

And if any could advise me what to do with a small canine that sees fit to prance about wherever I go, I'd be grateful.

( Quietly exasperated, to the dog as she moves to end the post, ) You're too short for the stairs. Accept it.

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I thank you, Ser. I will have to see if I've leave from my lady to see the dog cared for by other hands. She is already eager to see it properly named.

( Crossing Cosima would probably be a poor decision. )

She was devout. ( Devout to a faith that did not much favour the elves, true, but devout nonetheless, that ingrained devotion that brings strange comfort and suffering combined to the downtrod. ) Prayer might be the best means, until I can settle on something more... tangible.

If some physical manifestation is important, then an item to associate with her? Ah, or perhaps a donation to a worthy cause in her name?

My cousin gave me a parcel with some of her belongings. I've not yet opened it - I left it in Kirkwall for safekeeping. There may be something of use in there.

( Or maybe something really depressing, who knows. it's THE DANGER ZONE. )

Perhaps medical supplies of some sort for the alienage? I've— little notion of what they might need.

( Ugh, she feels garbage and awkward. Figuring out what to do that her mother would like is Tough, but that at least seems fitting. )