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Who: Leliana
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Aboard the Iskaulit
When: Now!

[She knows everyone is hard at work on deciphering the texts they have been given. Leliana would help, were she given a word. Instead she has found herself focusing on other worthy pursuits. The game room was intriguing but she liked to make her own fun. Using pieces of wood scrapped by scavengers on the planet surface, Leliana has fashioned herself a chess board. There were some familiar figures to those of Thedosian variety - The Queen might just look like Andraste, for example.

When Leliana appears to the network, she is holding one of her crudely made pieces between her fingers.]

It has become obvious that so many are either under duress or worrying over the distress message once more. I think a break would not be out of line, no? Should anyone care for a game of chess, I will be here. Please, do not let the happenings down below cause each other more stress than needed. We will sort this out in time.

Should anyone need further introductions: I am addressed as Sister Nightingale to the fleet at large. If you seek a game of challenge, you may call upon me.

[What most will be unfortunate to find is that Leliana had every intention of cheating.]

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I never was any good at chess. Too much strategizing, I make a terrible 'general.'

Did you make that yourself? [And, quickly, just in case she thought maybe he was poking fun at her creative abilities:] It looks good!

Ah. Then you would enjoy learning from Cullen.

[A pause and then she winces slightly when she realizes what she's said.]

Or, possibly not. I will say his attitude towards mages has changed greatly from what I saw last. Perhaps you could enjoy a game sometime.

So Varric told us in his letters, but you'll have to forgive me if I don't just take everyone's word for it.

[His dry tone isn't aimed to hold barbs, but Cullen "Mages aren't people" Rutherford wasn't a pleasant topic. Between Kinloch and Kirkwall, they'd known each other far too long for it to just be water under a bridge.]

[She shrugs though there's a bit of a long stare that follows.]

That's your choice, Anders. It was merely a suggestion. I can't dissuade your suspicions but you know as well as I do that people can change.

You have a knack for making my name sound like a disappointed remark. Like my mother.

[No, he's not going to talk about his own prejudices and how they're basically just the opposite of Cullen's. And he's certainly not going to talk about the potential of Cullen having overcome his while Anders still couldn't and maybe even wouldn't, free himself of his own.

So, deflection it is.]

Probably from years of living in the chantry in Lothering. I have that 'disaproving nun' tone down.

[She's not taking the bait mister. :|]

Ah, yes, that must be it. The Sisters in Kinloch's Chantry always wielded their's masterfully.

[He sighs and rubs his eyes a bit. Some days, he just felt too old for this anymore.]

Should the Commander arrive here in the fleet, I'll try to keep your words in mind. If he doesn't, however, it is likely, and for the best, that we'll never see each other again. In which case, my opinion won't matter for much.

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