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[dashing]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Herian
RECIPIENT: Everyone, part filtered to Chantry Relations
WHAT: the forest & Chantry Relations things
WHEN: once everyone is cured
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: There’s an OOC post regarding Chantry Relations and with a form to involved parties to fill in over here.

Members of the Inquisition, this is Knight Enchanter Amsel. I apologise for demanding your time once again, so soon after my last communication.

Now all are recovered from the sickness, there is an important matter to address. The Chantry Relations project was seeing to the matters regarding the forest grown over the Chantry ruin, and I have been engaging with local Chantry officials to determine its fate. Now it is almost gone in its entirety, we must take a different tact.

I well understand the attachment a number of Inquisition members had to the forest, especially in the wake of losing Dahlasanor, but this is a matter of some delicacy and importance to both locals and the Chantry, so I would beg your patience as we deal with the site and the few trees that remain.

( And for Chantry Relations Project Members only: )

Project members, I think it would be prudent to meet to refocus our efforts and consider what our areas of priority might be; though our particular political alignments and personal opinions differ, we are all of us bound to the Inquisition, and securing the favour of the Chantry will allow us to make use of an influential political ally, and leave our efforts unhampered by the repercussions of their poor opinions. With the sickness now passed, I think it best we press on with our duties.

If you would like to speak with me individually prior to our meeting as a group, that is entirely welcome. Gauging our respective talents and to what methods we are most suited is worth consideration, as well.

Before we get to that, however, I believe it is imperative that we address the matter of the forest that was growing in the ruins of the Chantry, and has since been burned down.

I— ( Where to start? This is a complex matter, contentious, by some counts, and incredibly straightforward for others. )

As stated before, with Knight-Lieutenant Coupe's approval I had taken initial steps to speaking with Chantry leaders in Kirkwall to see how the forest might be dealt with to best suit as a memorial, but now the forest has been largely destroyed we should move quickly before some other unexpected event come to pass. If this matter is of particular interest to you or you’ve suggestions on how we might work with the Chantry to create a fitting memorial and curry favour, I’d be glad of your time and insights.

Comments

[dashing]

( It takes a moment for her to place the conversation. ) Yes. At the time I was afraid that if the committee and the people of Kirkwall wished the forest gone and replaced, we would have to see it done.

( On the one hand, it was a relief to have that weight rested from them, that responsibility. On the other, to feel relieved seemed utter cowardice. )

Would that there were a way to spare all involved parties pain, but— the people of Kirkwall never wished for a forest, nor for magic to touch the place of their mourning.

[foxsays]

It's a rare person in the Inquisition so far who hasn't had to make that sort of choice. Or in life. We all have to live here now, that means compromise.

[On their end, certainly, almost every time. Curfews still standing as they are. If she'd been a couple of years younger, or perhaps even without a position she might not care but she does.]

Magic made it a place of mourning for them. [About as gently said as she can say it but to some people that was probably oil on the fire.] If there's ground the Inquisition has for a garden or something like a small forest then maybe but it'd have to be without magic to start it. Nothing overnight ever again.

[dashing]

You are right. ( But that does not mean understanding is at all improved for it. That, however, does not matter; her own feelings and their preservation are not a matter of indulgence or priority. )

On all count, I think. It should be done by other means, to the very highest standard.

perma-private to herian;

[foxsays]

Herian, the compromise in the first place would've been not to have had a fucking forest in Hightown made by magic. Everything after has been a mess left to others, tying yourself in knots over it shows you have a good heart, that you wish to do what is right but when the wrong was already done? Take a breath. Know that this was left in your lap by those who wouldn't give you the same consideration.

[If Araceli has to be the one who sounds like a terrible person for saying an ugly thing no matter how pretty her words, then she doesn't mind saying it when it's someone like Herian. When it's a thing like this.]

aye aye

[dashing]

I know.

( She will very soon, or may already have because whats are timelines, get a rather stern talk from Lady Vauquelin on this matter. )

I will see it done rightly, Araceli. I will not allow this to become a greater hurt. It must become a matter of healing.

[foxsays]

Healing is a messy business, if I thought I knew it before, I feel I know it better now.

If you want a few pretty words for anyone that might need them, my door is always open Herian.

[dashing]

I may need to call upon you for that. I... have my concerns about my lack of grace of words and the fate of a diplomatic project that is so important.