[One day she'll go away and come back with pretty things for Korrin, strings of delicate shells with pale grey whorls or dark brown spots, soft pink and gleaming on the inside to weave about them and down through her long hair. For now she moves, up on her knees to kiss the base of each, between Korrin's eyes and then her lips, lingering there until she tucks herself against her side once more. Her thanks is soft, glad to not have to think about the subject of the Deep Roads if she can help it. She shouldn't have gone to read about it after Kaisa's explanation, it only made things worse.]
Lady Thevenet was kind enough to explain a little of Nevarra to me when we first met, the Circles and the Mortalitasi. The Champion's judgement is her own, if friends from Kirkwall listened then it could be loyalty to her and her wishes. I read the book like most here have I feel, for how famed it is, this is a time to go with the politics and to use whatever you can. A tool exists for every task; Leandra can send the others more easily to the fancy parties but if there is a deal going down in a tavern that might be dangerous, I am always the one to go and to report back. Play to your strengths here and none of them can fault you. [Not that she truly knows the advisors beyond reputation, a thing she knows not to trust in fully but it's the best plan to go with. There are always vested interests; no one volunteers for the amount of time and effort involved in a council unless there's something they want out of it.
The ones who do the long hours, collating and organising and disseminating? There are times when they take the task because someone must or they're given it with no choice. The wise ones take it because there are jobs you have to do yourself to make sure they're done well, she'd put money on the latter, even without knowing who does what within the council.]
The sun rises, the sun sets. The moon will wax and wane. The tide rises and falls. Sometimes you have to let the dust settle. So long as he's being watched and the situation is known to all, it means that if he ever slips, there will be a hundred eyes on him. People make mistakes when they're being watched too. I don't know how many chances a man that blows up a building and ignites a war is allowed, I'd be interested in finding out, wouldn't you? [Araceli, after all, is rarely still in Skyhold. She's a strange girl from a rift, what could she possibly know really?] No one wants to turn around and say that the Wardens were treated unfairly either when the Inquisition doesn't really have support and they have such a long and storied history. Whenever you need to rant, come to me, I will always listen and make it better.
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Lady Thevenet was kind enough to explain a little of Nevarra to me when we first met, the Circles and the Mortalitasi. The Champion's judgement is her own, if friends from Kirkwall listened then it could be loyalty to her and her wishes. I read the book like most here have I feel, for how famed it is, this is a time to go with the politics and to use whatever you can. A tool exists for every task; Leandra can send the others more easily to the fancy parties but if there is a deal going down in a tavern that might be dangerous, I am always the one to go and to report back. Play to your strengths here and none of them can fault you. [Not that she truly knows the advisors beyond reputation, a thing she knows not to trust in fully but it's the best plan to go with. There are always vested interests; no one volunteers for the amount of time and effort involved in a council unless there's something they want out of it.
The ones who do the long hours, collating and organising and disseminating? There are times when they take the task because someone must or they're given it with no choice. The wise ones take it because there are jobs you have to do yourself to make sure they're done well, she'd put money on the latter, even without knowing who does what within the council.]
The sun rises, the sun sets. The moon will wax and wane. The tide rises and falls. Sometimes you have to let the dust settle. So long as he's being watched and the situation is known to all, it means that if he ever slips, there will be a hundred eyes on him. People make mistakes when they're being watched too. I don't know how many chances a man that blows up a building and ignites a war is allowed, I'd be interested in finding out, wouldn't you? [Araceli, after all, is rarely still in Skyhold. She's a strange girl from a rift, what could she possibly know really?] No one wants to turn around and say that the Wardens were treated unfairly either when the Inquisition doesn't really have support and they have such a long and storied history. Whenever you need to rant, come to me, I will always listen and make it better.