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driftfleet2015-09-28 05:48 pm
dawnwillcome) wrote in driftfleet2015-09-28 05:48 pm
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pathstone mingle!!
Who: The Pathstone + anyone!
Broadcast: nah
Action: yah!
When: lets not go asking questions okay
[Do you know what's weird and probably a sign of things to come for the entire fleet?
The Pathstone isn't the most useless ship anymore. It's actually good at stuff. It's got upgrades! It's got a pilot and two people to shoot guns at things. And two captains.
It's not just Captain Tek. There's two.
It's still a pretty big mess who are we even kidding. Come see for yourself!!]
Broadcast: nah
Action: yah!
When: lets not go asking questions okay
[Do you know what's weird and probably a sign of things to come for the entire fleet?
The Pathstone isn't the most useless ship anymore. It's actually good at stuff. It's got upgrades! It's got a pilot and two people to shoot guns at things. And two captains.
It's not just Captain Tek. There's two.
It's still a pretty big mess who are we even kidding. Come see for yourself!!]
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[Because he has his moments, like today, when he is the exact opposite of subtle.]
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Does that bother you?
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[because he could interpret that several ways.]
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[She's guessing no.]
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[that was maybe not quite the right question.]
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Then there's your answer.
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--Do you have any idea how old I am?
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Dragons in my world tend to have long lifespans, but I wouldn't be surprised if you outmatch them. You must be hundreds of years old at least.
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So, how can you expect my lifetime to enter into this at all?
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My world was torn by war, when I became Inquisitor. The fighting had made a valley too dangerous for most because both sides were driven to their actions by fear. A simple farmer working in his fields could be called a mage because his hoe looked like a staff and he would be cut down where he stood with no mercy. It was terrible, and many of the refuges from this war had fled to a safe town.
While I was visiting I met an elderly elven man and stopped to speak with him. Only Dalish elves have tattoos like mine, so it was easy to see he had no real place in that village filled with shemlen. He told me that he was there waiting for the war to end so that he could take flowers to his wife's grave.
Devotion doesn't end at death, lethallin. It endures, and I would expect any man who would lay with me to acknowledge that.
[His augment, if it's not too busy slowly frying his brain, will tell him that elven word is close to friend, but carries with it a deeper meaning. The closest Common translation would be blood kin, and it's a word she would use for someone in her clan, someone she would consider herself connected to down to her very soul.]
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it's a soft sound, and not actually flavored much with mocking or malice, but it's still a little abrupt.]
How long do you think we're going to be here, lehess?
[she doesn't have any helpful translation via her augment though, so she'll have to use her imagination.]
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[Not that there are ever any signs, but that's a pretty long stretch. She's seen friends and people she never even knew from her own world come and go, and it's starting to feel like it won't be too terribly long until she's the only one left. Varric's return had lifted her spirits, though, and there's still a small group of people from Thedas. It could be much worse.]
Like it or not, you're probably stuck with me. And now you'll have to tell me what that word meant.
[Because fuck imagination she would prefer just straight up knowledge.]
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[as if that unit of time means anything when you've lived almost nine centuries full of them.]
And while that notion is lovely for the mortal races, our lifespans are too long even for us.
When you really understand how big the world actually is, how much even in the indelible things change over scores of time, you naturally see things very differently.
[whether she's still doting on him or not, he shifts himself up until he's propped on one elbow--closer, looking down at her with a more plain eye-contact than he tends to bother with in his superficial, day-to-day interactions. he's not only harassing her, in this case.]
What we do, is we take mates. Some choose to only have one at a time, some choose to have many, but it is always understood that--at some point--something will change. Maybe death will interrupt it, maybe the world itself will change. But... you acknowledge this fact, and it is accepted... and until that happens, you pretend that the entire world is for the pair of you, and that it will always be that way.
It isn't a shallow thing, ameerai. [another word for him not to explain, and one said with more intent.] If anything, the knowledge that it will end someday makes it more consuming.
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He likely realizes that he's given away more than just how dragons work, that she knows now that he's lived long enough to have had several mates and now she's considering that rather than the definition of a few words. What would he have been like as a younger man? He's already shown he doesn't have a problem with promiscuity, but did he fall in love more easily when he was younger?
She wants to know these things, but she knows she can't simply ask them directly. Talking to Tek is often like navigating a maze with paths that constantly change and she isn't foolish enough to think she's getting the hang of it even after all this time, but she'd like to think she at least does better.]
I hope you're not suggesting my people are shallow for committing themselves to a lifetime with one person only because elves are no longer immortal and we can't do it as long as you can. That gift was taken from us, it isn't something we gave up.
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[he seems amused about it, though. at least her reactions are apparently still entertaining to him.]
Just sharing a perspective you wouldn't have been aware of otherwise. That's all.
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[Her pronunciation is probably off and she really isn't holding out much hope for an answer, but if he's going to be leaning in so close and trying to figure out why she won't sleep with him, she figures she has a right to know.]