[Pushing off the wall with her foot, Araceli takes a seat and leans so her hair is in her face, a cheap tactic but she can look up and through it, not so easy for someone to do things the other way unless they know her. If this had been Skyhold the rumours and chatter would be in her lap; every third day she'd report the tavern talk back so making the rounds with the scouts as much as the soldiers and the merchants and any other person willing to sit to drink, gamble and while away their night into the small hours with her was a job just as much as it was habit.
Letting Korrin say her whole piece before she even says a word, she still sits very quietly first. Slotting all the pieces into place that she can before she sits up as part of her back pops loudly in the quiet with only the few waves lapping at the hull to break it.]
Korrin you might not like me saying this but someone should and I'm used to looking at things from as many angles to get in and out without getting myself caught or hurt and I'm not going to apologise for it. [Araceli apologises when she means it, only makes promises she can keep. If saying a hard thing or looking at this just so they're absolutely sure upsets Korrin but helps later in their journey then so be it, she'll say it.] Are you sure? Boys and girls grow differently, and for many there comes a time or a reason for them to be away from people close to them. After all that happened to him, to be in Kirkwall is no small thing when people who look like you or him or Taashath aren't exactly welcomed with open arms.
What do you know about this-- this Cole? How could he possibly know these things? There's listening to the rumours, watching, observing, putting the pieces together but that? That seems… [Too convenient, that's what Araceli wants to say, wants to reach through a rift and drag Nerissa here by the arm to have her tell Korrin the story of the demons that require masks and shared names to be the norm where she calls home.
Sensing Araceli's mood, Lux comes over to sling himself mostly into her lap until she hoists him the rest of the way, fingers in his fur.]
Taashath says it's possible but you could be jumping to conclusions. There's a project to seek stronger ties and alliances with those in the north because the Inquisition can't stand alone, unpopular as that might make us here. Moving here...a lot of people are re-examining their priorities, I think.
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Letting Korrin say her whole piece before she even says a word, she still sits very quietly first. Slotting all the pieces into place that she can before she sits up as part of her back pops loudly in the quiet with only the few waves lapping at the hull to break it.]
Korrin you might not like me saying this but someone should and I'm used to looking at things from as many angles to get in and out without getting myself caught or hurt and I'm not going to apologise for it. [Araceli apologises when she means it, only makes promises she can keep. If saying a hard thing or looking at this just so they're absolutely sure upsets Korrin but helps later in their journey then so be it, she'll say it.] Are you sure? Boys and girls grow differently, and for many there comes a time or a reason for them to be away from people close to them. After all that happened to him, to be in Kirkwall is no small thing when people who look like you or him or Taashath aren't exactly welcomed with open arms.
What do you know about this-- this Cole? How could he possibly know these things? There's listening to the rumours, watching, observing, putting the pieces together but that? That seems… [Too convenient, that's what Araceli wants to say, wants to reach through a rift and drag Nerissa here by the arm to have her tell Korrin the story of the demons that require masks and shared names to be the norm where she calls home.
Sensing Araceli's mood, Lux comes over to sling himself mostly into her lap until she hoists him the rest of the way, fingers in his fur.]
Taashath says it's possible but you could be jumping to conclusions. There's a project to seek stronger ties and alliances with those in the north because the Inquisition can't stand alone, unpopular as that might make us here. Moving here...a lot of people are re-examining their priorities, I think.