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Date: 2020-07-23 09:14 pm (UTC)
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Something shifts in the carefully constructed mask of good cheer she has adopted. It is, perhaps incongruously, the echo of a more genuine version of the thing lurking in a blink, in the very minor adjustment of the line of her shoulder, and the smoothing of her thumb across other faintly ink stained fingertips.

"Well, yes. But that is precisely why I had spent so little time on the subject - the reflecting on the thing, as it were. There is every likelihood that we will leave Thedas without any warning, and that we will take those abilities we brought with us when we go. Why, there are only three other Rifters who have been here as long or longer than myself."

Unbeknownst to her, this number has already reduced itself by one.

"Obviously I cannot dispute the appeal of the Rift research. There may very well be value in it for anyone who comes after us, or even for the war effort. But if my presence here is to be at all remarkable for Thedas and not just for people like the two of us, it seems far more prudent to see that the continuation of my work need not be so reliant on my own hand in it. That it have some application which immediately looks beyond the study of the Fade and whatever we might discover about how and why we came from it."

Date: 2020-07-24 12:32 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
It is a strange thing - to not just be listened to, but to be studied. It makes her very conscious of the shape of what she is saying, the spaces between her points filled by both unsaid things and unaccomplished ones. Does it make a difference that she can see the little snake there with its beady little black eye and the faintly oil texture of the magic which hangs in the air about it staring at her as well?

She cannot say.

"Nothing so grand, Mr. Dickerson. I simply wish to learn how to adapt Thedosian magic and materials to create new tools for us to use, and to do so in a way that anyone here might replicate. It might help, I think, to see the places where all our various Talents overlap. As I said, magic in Thedas has rules. But if people like you and I and Madame de Cedoux are here appearing to bend them, then it is possible that some of them are more practice than fact. I would like to clarify the boundaries of the canvas, so to speak."

Date: 2020-07-24 04:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
Explosive is an interesting choice of words which she mentally elects not to comment on, given the state of her workshop and her and de Foncé's mutual interest in the subject.

In fact, perhaps it is best to simply steer around the specifics of the work - and its various moral quandaries - entirely now that they have established a loose concept of the thing so as not to risk saying anything untoward which might either make Mr. Stark, wherever he is presently, spontaneously break out into hives or for the Provost to look up from his work, pause, and squint (in some graceful, lineless way) with the certainty that someone somewhere is doing something they haven't asked permission to do.

"Leander"—first name, no title; how shocking—"has been willing to listen to some of my ideas, and confirm or deny some theories. He's very good with warding. He and Enchanter Julius once allowed me to observe them testing and modifying expulsion wards for cleaning the Gallows chimneys. And I have been in conversation with-- the new one, with the Northern accent. Porthmeus? He seems very willing to at least discuss the subject, which is more than I have managed to convince much of anyone else to do. Whenever I attempt to talk seriously on the subject, I am inevitably given reading lists. Which I don't mind, but books are rather poor conversationalists and worse with invention."

Date: 2020-07-27 06:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
For a moment, it's as if she is still a step behind - for that's exactly where she is, turning over the concept of the Templars thoughtfully, the prospect of Circles, certain Chantry libraries in Val Royeaux. Monsier de Foncé's close friend is a Chantry Brother, is he not? Perhaps there is some connection there which might be—

The derailment of her thoughts is a visible thing. Across the table from him, Wysteria sharpens so abruptly so abruptly that it's as if she's been struck by something. The look she affixes him with is pure shock.

"You will?"

Date: 2020-07-28 03:44 am (UTC)
heirring: (puppies!!)
From: [personal profile] heirring
She grows suddenly very pale. And then just as suddenly, flushes very hot up the back of her neck, into her ears, and well into her face with the effort required to subdue the hot spark of elation that rises up. Like a bottle under pressure, her eyes get very bright.

"Oh, yes. Well of course. I wouldn't want anyone to be unduly endangered by the course of our research." She does not sound as light and airy and casual and perfectly poised as she believes she does. "But how kind of you to offer, Mr. Dickerson. I would of course be most grateful for your assistance and happily accept. Tell me, do you have any ready friendships among Riftwatch's mages? Perhaps you might have connections I do not that we might first explore the possibility of studying."

Date: 2020-07-28 07:46 am (UTC)
heirring: (plucky heroine)
From: [personal profile] heirring
"Damn."

A thump of her fist on the tabletop punctuates the sentiment, and then is waved away. Never mind the Thedosian mages. The simple offer of his collaboration is more progress than she's made on this subject in months.

"No matter then. We'll make do. In the mean time, let us arrange a short series of studies of your Talents. Casting. However you prefer it referenced. Naturally, I would be more than happy to do the same in reverse should you care to observe, although I would warn you in advance that by comparison they will be quite unremarkable indeed. Will you need much space to practice in? In the past, Leander and I have used the Harrowing chamber in the Mage Tower for such things, but if it can be contained and you prefer discretion then the Hightown house shall be open to you. Have you a piece of paper that I might borrow, Mr Dickerson?"

It tumbles out of her seemingly all in one prodigious breath, a veritable exhaled tidal wave.

(Perhaps Salvio has gone so gray due in part to the frequence of her company?)

Date: 2020-08-02 04:50 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
She takes it from him gratefully, producing from somewhere behind her ear - in the twist of her hair, perhaps? - a pen for writing with, which she commences with immediately, making a series of quick shorthand notes for her own reference.

"I would inquiry with the Seneschal's office. I'm certain it could be supplied to you there, or at the very least requisitioned. Myself and Seneschel Pizzicagnolo usually have a few rolls in storage so they might be cut for the writing of new reports, and the logging of personnel and the various receipts and so forth required by an organization such as this one. The house in Hightown will would be best then, I think," she continues, as if the two thoughts are remotely related. "We can arrange for something of a mutual demonstration there. Would you mind terribly if Mr. Fitz were in attendance as well? It's perfectly all right to say you would prefer he wasn't, but he and I have been working rather closely on the questions of Rifter... let us say, continuity? And the information may be to the benefit of our work together with respect to that as well."

Date: 2020-08-02 04:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
"Excellent! Then it's sorted."

What's sorted? Wysteria, go back to the semantics of--

"I suspect that once we have completed our trials, the information will naturally lead in one direction or the other so I don't wish to jump to any conclusions too early. But if you have any particular line of inquiry you most wish to pursue, then I am of course all for it. Being a student of Oghma, I trust you will, and while one should always have a specific question they wish to investigate when conducting our tests, I see no issue whatsoever with keeping our theoretical interests rather broad."

Date: 2020-08-07 04:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
Her pen doesn't pause. Whether it be a product of working in the company of similarly distracting individuals here in Thedas or in the place she'd come from, or be it simply a natural apptitude derived from a certain inability to Stop, Just Stop, she's evidently quite good at writing and conversing all at once.

"Oh, most of it I should think. The important parts, to be certain. Given the sensitivity of the subject, I imagine I will divide everything between two records - questions and answers, so to speak - so that one without the other would be quite useless." A pause (of her mouth, not her hand), in which she gives him a swift second assessment and clearly is either unconscious that she's doing it or means to do so subtly.

"You'll be doing the same with your notes, of course. I doubt I even need mention it."

Date: 2020-08-14 07:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
Tragically, that look has even less effect in this context. She scoffs.

"Then you may have my guarantee, Mr. Dickerson. I am the very picture of discretion. But records must be kept, if only for our own benefit. Who can be expected to recall every little detail of a thing from months prior? I find it unlikely that this will be an abbreviated study."

Date: 2020-08-15 03:02 pm (UTC)
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"Excellent. You may feel free to use my name as a reference on the form should you feel you require it."

From the long look she gives him, there can be no doubt what she thinks about this whole anonymous record keeping business. But to her (very limited) credit, she scribbles out a line in her notes, then caps the pen and tucks it back into— her hair, surely. The freshly written note is folded over and tucked into a pocket.

"Well then, Mr. Dickerson." She offers her hand out to shake. "I look forward to working with you."

Date: 2020-08-19 11:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] heirring
The hand in question is rather inkstained, neither so soft that it spends all day in a glove nor so hard that it does much work without one. On the back of her hand, between her thumb and forefinger is the slightest freckling of pale circular scars- some kind of burn, there now forever.

Her hand, shaking his, stops very abruptly but doesn't release him. Instead, her grip tightens. Wysteria's attention swivels toward the collar of his clothes where last that little glinting dark eye was seen staring.

"Would you really?"

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