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Date: 2021-03-11 01:12 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (I'm headed towards)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ There is a pamphlet, as far as Adrasteia knows, but it was geared towards Rifters and so she'd merely glanced at it. Though that's neither here nor there, as she finds his way of disseminating the information helpful and fascinating both.

She folds her hands underneath her chin as he continues to speak, nodding along. A few moments after he stops, while she's considering her response, the proprietor has returned with eggs, toast, and a side of spicy-smelling sausage set on the table between them. ]


It's fortunate that nothing has seen fit to come to Kirkwall's shores, [ she settles on, but there's an obvious thread of worry in her words. At some point, it'll be worse than just an abomination crashing through the walls, of that she's certain. She wonders what sort of siege capabilities the Gallows has to itself.

Something to look into actually. ]


Anyone and anything with even the most tenuous connection to the Fade remains vulnerable to outside influence within it, [ she points out, but there's no heat in her statement, just an issue of fact as she understands it. ] Especially when whatever is doing the influencing is native to the Fade.

Date: 2021-03-11 07:58 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (What made it special)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ Adrasteia shakes her head. ] Rank and authority don't always mean that someone has seen what's happening around them, and a lack thereof doesn't mean you don't have points that are solid.

[ There's a little headtilt, but she doesn't say anything more about it. Instead she smiles. ]

I can think of several things I've seen in the Deep Roads that I hope never reach the light of the Gallows dawn.

[ She pulls the plate of sausage closer to herself and picks up one of the forks from the center of the table. ]

What sort of things do you think I should be worried about, in Ellis' absence?

Date: 2021-03-15 10:08 pm (UTC)
kantikoy: (Made it dangerous)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ Adrasteia chuckles a little, breaking up her sausage with a fork and popping it into her mouth immediately after. Morale, he says. It's almost a joke at her expense, isn't it?

Well. She did sign up for the job.

Chewing, and then swallowing, she gestures with the fork. ]


Improvisation is a useful skill, but you'll forgive me if I hope we won't need it.

What about morale? Do you have any suggestions?

Date: 2021-03-22 04:53 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (we've been cloudbusting daddy)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ She almost chuckles again at both his answer and his suggestion, shaking her head a little bit. ]

I doubt I'd be able to convince most anyone of that, unfortunately? [ She does lift the end of that statement to make it into a question. ] I'm not nearly high enough in the rankings to make that decision and have it stick, not after so long of people using the crystals for anything that catches their attention.
Edited (too much chuckling, needed editing) Date: 2021-03-22 04:54 am (UTC)

Date: 2021-03-28 07:42 pm (UTC)
kantikoy: (tell me)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ It's a good question, isn't it? Adrasteia takes a moment to mentally compose her answer. ] The Inquisition feels too large for my voice to do more than add to the cacophony. Riftwatch is small enough, focused enough, that it may do some good. Besides, I heard there were Wardens here, and I was wondering what the others were up to. Where they had focused their attention in the war effort.

[ All of which is true. What she doesn't say includes I never made it back to Weisshaupt after Adamant and I felt like I wasn't doing enough, or the right things, and I wanted the comfort of the familiar in unfamiliar times. ]
Edited (formatting, my nemesis) Date: 2021-03-28 07:43 pm (UTC)

Date: 2021-04-01 11:37 pm (UTC)
kantikoy: (to the men in power)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
Yes, I'm coming to understand that. [ The part about being 'focused' that is, anyway.

The other admission, however, has her raising her eyebrows but smiling. ]


Warden Ellis is a good Warden, a good man. I can't say that I'm surprised.

[ Just gonna finish off her sausage here, thanks. ]

Date: 2021-04-12 07:26 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (in their big black car)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
I imagine so.

[ That's the way of Ellis. It's also the way of Adrasteia, to insist someone is a good person even if they themselves would disagree with that evaluation.

She has no regrets in that direction. ]


I knew of him, before Adamant. We were never close, before. Why?

Date: 2021-04-14 08:54 pm (UTC)
kantikoy: (the day is new)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
[ Adrasteia nods at that. They're both curious people, clearly, or none of this would be happening. ]

Running water seeks its own level. Something my father used to say.

I'm glad that Ellis has people in his corner. [ She'd worried, upon her arrival to Kirkwall and learning he was here, that he didn't. That he had no one and was just existing, surviving as part of a group but functionally separate. It's nice to know that isn't entirely true.

She waits for him to finish chewing before asking: ]
Do you miss your home terribly?

Date: 2021-04-19 12:37 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (your hard times are ahead)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
Hm.

[ Adrasteia smiles to herself. She's very glad to hear that Ellis has done well, made friends, a lasting impression on several it would seem.

Also, who wouldn't miss the pieces of home that were important to them? But it's interesting, that his answer isn't just 'yes'. She has the impression that Richard is very particular about the things he says.

She's just not sure what that says about him. ]


I grew up near Amaranthine, do you know anything about it?

Date: 2021-04-20 08:19 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (I got the notion)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
It's a trading port and a place that is very proud of being where and what it is. It's also the Warden's arling in Ferelden. There's a route that runs between Amaranthine and Denerim, called the Pilgrim's Path. Anyway. It's off the Amaranthine Sea, southeast of here, along Ferelden's eastern coastline.

Wardens are very important there. The Hero of Ferelden saved the city from a darkspawn attack that happened just months after the Blight ended.

[ She opens her hands on the table in front of her, wondering if any of that information was even of any particular use towards answering his question.

Adrasteia takes a drink of her ale before she continues. ]


I've been a Warden since I was seventeen. I got as far from Amaranthine as I could; ended up in Orlais, in the Blasted Hills. I've never been back.

It's a lovely city, don't get me wrong. But there's nothing left there for me to miss.

Date: 2021-04-25 02:39 am (UTC)
kantikoy: (now I can move in the right direction)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
I was fifteen and living with cousins outside of town, in the wake of the blight and my parents' deaths as a result. The area was overrun almost immediately; there were Wardens around, fighting. I did what I could to protect my cousins, which was mostly setting any creature on fire that came too close.

[ Adrasteia takes another sip of ale and shakes her head. ]

I was very lucky that no one was paying much attention, or I could have been shipped off to a Circle immediately.

Date: 2021-04-26 11:18 pm (UTC)
kantikoy: (keeping my head up)
From: [personal profile] kantikoy
It's alright. It's not an uncommon tale, especially amongst Wardens.

[ Most of them have dead family. ]

But thank you.
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