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[arcaneadvisor]

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[elegiaque]

You know, I'm not entirely sure?

( - ruefully. )

People were beginning to get the idea that Lord Luthor is courting me, and I might have said some unflattering things about Brother Jehan to his brother in a letter and he might have threatened to tattle on me about 'the Marcher' and I was trying to make sure that Alexander -

( yes. )

- didn't feel he had to stop speaking to me to quell it. Well, ( philosophically, ) it turned out he didn't feel that way.

[arcaneadvisor]

That-- sounds remarkably familiar.

[Not courting, can you even imagine? Well, Alistair probably can but in general, Morrigan and Leliana courting would break Skyhold.]

T'would not be a Chantry brother if he were not somehow poking his nose where it does not belong. You might remind him that such things are easily lost. [Dry. The three deserts are jealous. Such a pity that the Inquisition not being a part of the Chantry still doesn't keep the annoying pious beasts out.]

And you feel the same? I know very little of this Marcher of yours though I am always happy to help with the gossips.

[Spiders. You can never have too many spiders.]

[elegiaque]

I might remind his brother, if he isn't careful.

( little tattle-tale that she is unrepentant for being. )

I - well, I don't know the same. I don't know his mind, entirely, but mine is - I like him very well. I worried, a little, that he wouldn't have been as inclined if there weren't someone to amusingly spite, but he said that isn't so.

( and it all sprang from her determination not to lose his attention, that's not irrelevant. )

[arcaneadvisor]

If you wish to provide me his name, there are errands I plan to undertake in Orlais.

[Val she has not forgotten about your mother, she will get to her in due course.]

Had he said anything else, I would be telling you what you might do with him. [Morrigan, who has so little time for men in general, and even less in that regard. A roundabout way of saying you deserve more and better than whatever there was in the Court.] Spite can be a foundation, I would be the last to say otherwise, tis very much what I am known for yet..you are clever with words. I believe you would know if he were lying there.

[elegiaque]

( promptly and without hesitation; ) Martin Mercier. He's very sweet to me, like a big uncle. He calls me Gigi still.

( among other things. choupinette drives her up the wall, she isn't repeating it. )

But Alexander -

I don't think it'd be his way. ( thoughtfully. ) I don't know that he bothers with things he doesn't think are worth bothering with.

[arcaneadvisor]

When you are a woman grown?

[What a strange concept. Then she was just Morrigan if her mother was in a good mood, or girl. So. It's not as if she had anything else to compare it to.]

You are very much worth bothering with. What does he do then, when he is here?

[elegiaque]

The number of people who don't seem to have noticed that is constantly astonishing to me.

( some of them are more annoying about it than others. jeannot and his stupid friend, for instance.

but the not small moment of warmth she feels being so described by morrigan is much more compelling than either of them. )

But Alexander is a blacksmith. Which I think even in the Free Marches is a strange occupation for a nobleman - he learned his trade in Orzammar.

[arcaneadvisor]

Many will see only what they wish to see. That says rather more about them than it ever will about you.

[See: literally everything anyone says or thinks or breathes about Morrigan, even the edge of a look they might give her.]

I was unaware Orzammar would take in a human, let alone a Free Marcher. They were very much for tradition last I suffered being there. Tis a stuffy place, and I say that not regarding the heat and the rock above ones head. All that tradition, tis worse than any surface court. Though I suppose there is no better place to learn unless he joined the Qun and then I believe he would be rather less taken with you.

[elegiaque]

He strikes me as prone to achieving the things he sets out to do. I suppose he set out to learn and did.

( 'suppose' nothing. her admiration is hard to miss. )

So I have to be glad he did it this way. I wouldn't prefer the alternative.

( being in the qun. being less taken with her. )

[arcaneadvisor]

The Inquisition has been sorely lacking in such individuals. One could say the same of you; no one else writes of the Inquisition, for the Inquisition after all.

[And while she's proud, she's intrigued, trying to imagine what the possible outcomes of this might be. So few things are ever truly down to just chance or happenstance.]

I must tell you of the Qunari that travelled with us during the Blight. What a singularly striking individual he was though he cared more small kittens on the road and his blade than other matters.

[Also art but she would like to deliver that bit in person.]