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[3wayforjustice]

Now that you're all quite finished smashing things...

[And guess who thought that was a fantastically stupid idea -- despite his own history of smashing things.]

... Is there anyone out there who still needs medical attention?

[Fenris be damned, he is going to be the healer. It's the best he can do.]

Comments

[spellbent]

You don't still have an elf standing guard at your door, do you?

[3wayforjustice]

He'd better have given up.

[Answer: PROBABLY.]

[spellbent]

That's not really an answer.

[3wayforjustice]

Probably.

Hawke... still isn't herself. I wouldn't be surprised if he were still skulking around, for that reason alone.

[spellbent]

He probably wouldn't take kindly to my offering to relieve him of his post, would he?

[3wayforjustice]

You're a mage. He'd take to that about as well as dwarves take to flight.

[spellbent]

Which is not well, I'm guessing.

[yvnyet_uv_mekrdhehk]

I think I'm better now, but thanks anyway!

[Rikku kind of wishes she'd known he was healing before now.]

I think it's good that you're offering to help heal people. We really need to depend on each other if we want to get anywhere.

[3wayforjustice]

I don't have any reason to hide what I'm capable of. I may as well use it to the benefit of the misfortunate.

[yvnyet_uv_mekrdhehk]

Why would you hide it to begin with?

[Rikku comes from a place where magic isn't nearly as maligned as in Thedas.]

[3wayforjustice]

Because. I'm an apostate.

[Hold up, let him remember not everyone knows exactly what that means.]

That is, in my world, mages are controlled. Locked up. Magic is something to be feared and reviled, until it's needed to fight a war.

[yvnyet_uv_mekrdhehk]

That's awful! Why would they do such a thing?

Magic can be really helpful if you use it right!

[3wayforjustice]

That's just it. No one believes mages are capable of using our magic without taking over the world or some nonsense like that.

[hawkeward]

[What has two thumbs and just got undroned, like, five minutes ago? THIS CHAMPION.]

Smashing things? And here I'd have thought you to be first in line.

[3wayforjustice]

[There is... stunned silence on the other end.]

-- Hawke! You're... you're back! Thank everything it's possible to thank.

[hawkeward]

Did you miss me that much? Surely the sight of my droned self kept you entertained. [She sighs.] Pray it never happens again.

[3wayforjustice]

... I was beginning to think you would never come back, Hawke.

[hawkeward]

Come now, Anders. Someone has to stick around and keep you and Fenris from murdering each other every other day. [a beat] Which... didn't happen in my absence, I hope.

[3wayforjustice]

You were gone for... much longer than I've seen before. I was worried, I...

[Oh. Right. Fenris.]

I -- I haven't seen him. Lately.

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[unasked_for]

[Fenris is less than pleased. He'd died, of course; that had been a foregone conclusion, one he'd seen coming days ago. But he'd expected to come back normally, and instead...

Instead he's chilled, exhausted, and feeling terribly weak. In a way, it's almost reassuring; his previous resurrections had felt almost unreal, with a sudden return to perfect health as though nothing had happened, and he couldn't help wondering what the hidden price of such magic could be. But while this seems to make more logical sense, he can't say he's thrilled to be in this condition.

Not that he's made up his mind to ask for Anders' help, even if that's the obvious course of action. It doesn't seem dire.] Do you have any sort of protection at all?

[He's not aware that Anders hasn't actually noticed he's gone yet.]

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[3wayforjustice]

[Honestly, he'd thought Fenris had just gotten sick of him and gone home. Or gone to watch over Hawke once it became obvious nothing was going to leap out and eat Anders' face off.]

[So, of course, the question gets an irritated noise out of him.]

I didn't need it earlier, and I certainly don't need it now. I thought you'd figured that out.

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[unasked_for]

[Yes to the getting sick of Anders, no to the going home.] You have yet to successfully convince me any mage, particularly you, can look after themselves.

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[3wayforjustice]

After you left, nothing happened. And now that everything has died down, how is this situation more dangerous than a few days ago?

[Filtered]

[unasked_for]

I didn't leave. And the situation is exactly as dangerous as it was a few days ago - no more, no less.

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[3wayforjustice]

Don't lie to me. You did too.

Everything's calmed down. You're just being paranoid. More than usual, which is impressive.