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[openhands]

Who: Cassandra Pentaghast & YOU!!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: SS Marsiva
When: week of April 12-18

[When Cassandra wakes, she goes from sound asleep to alert in just a matter of a couple of seconds. She's out of bed immediately with a reflexive reach for weapons that aren't there. Naturally, this merits a frustrated growl, but no matter. She doesn't need a sword or shield to do some damage if she must to get out of...wherever this place is.]

[She scans the room with a little more scrutiny with a scowl before she notices the communicator and picks it up. Enjoy your new view of the ceiling, network, while she looks the device over in her hands because she doesn't understand why she has some vague sense of familiarity with it without ever having seen it before in her life. It's at least something to take her mind off the fact she has absolutely no idea how she got here in the first place.]

What is this?

[Answer her before books start getting stabbed, you guys.]

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[wolfuncaged]

No. I have...noticed a lot of differences, also.

[Their world is really weird, and he doesn't understand how so many different paths can exist, but there they are. But that...that gives him some comfort. It doesn't mean the Hawke he has met here is any less dead. But perhaps the one he met in Exsilium, perhaps the one from his own version of Thedas, they may yet live.]

That is...something, at least.

[He's still irritated, and by no means is letting Cassandra off the hook. Even if Hawke is fine, the Varric thing is still very much a real problem to him.

But hey, congrats, Jove. You stopped him from spitting like an angry cat everywhere. That counts for something.]

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[dawnwillcome]

That's enough, then.

[The last thing Jove wants to do is tell Fenris not to feel as angry as he wants, he has every right when Hawke was clearly as important to him as she... he... as they were. It's an entirely different thing, though, to let him go on suffering needlessly when all it takes is one person to point out maybe some facts have been delivered wrong.

The simple fact is Fenris hasn't had a lot of hope in his life and it would be cruel to let him go on in despair. So she spoke up, and she's glad she has. She'll never regret doing everything in her power to help the people she cares for.]

And for what it's worth, she can be gruff in the beginning, but Cassandra is a wonderful woman. There's no one I'd rather have at my back, in or out of a fight.

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[wolfuncaged]

[The weight is at least partially lifted. He can't save this Hawke, the one he has come to care about, but the others...perhaps not all is lost in the world.]

She still kidnapped Varric.

[The tone suggests he is really not ok with this. Varric is Special People.]

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[dawnwillcome]

[Fuck her life, that gets a laugh from her.]

She did still kidnap Varric. She had me in chains when we first met, but I don't hold that against her anymore.

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[wolfuncaged]

So kidnapping people she wishes to help her is something she does?

...

She is aware there are easier ways, isn't she?

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[dawnwillcome]

At the time there weren't many options open to her. I was an unknown element in the middle of a very big problem, so I can't really fault her for trying to do what she thought would be safest.

I think she would argue that easier rarely means faster.

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[wolfuncaged]

Or helpful in the long run. Varric would likely have made her life miserable. He really knows how to hold a grudge.

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[dawnwillcome]

They get to a place of grudging acceptance eventually, don't worry.

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[wolfuncaged]

That says a lot about her worth, honestly.

[Because Varric really doesn't do anything like forgiveness to those who have wronged him unless that person really deserves it. He might be everyone's best friend, but cross him and woe betide you.]