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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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[serves]

As am I. You'll soon come to see that most of us aren't from such a time.

[We're talking like, Kirkwall era here.]

[openhands]

And what time would that be?

[serves]

Some come from before the Chantry exploded in Kirkwall, some directly after. Many don't know of the Inquisition, some have a different Inquisitor entirely.

[openhands]

[She heaves a sigh.]

A mess, in other words.

[But things haven't exactly been straightforward and simple for a while now. Looking at it that way makes it seem a little...less than what it is. Manageable.]

[And maybe what's not important right now either. There would be time to sort all of that out later.]

How are you holding up?

[She trusts Cullen that he's holding up fine. He looks fine. It's hard to tell beyond that through the communicator. But she did make a promise. Maker only knows how long she hasn't been keeping that promise since he arrived here before her.]

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[serves]

Essentially. [And he fiddles for a moment, encrypting the feed.]

Anders, for example, has yet to destroy the Chantry to his recollection.

And I've been... well. The Inquisitor comes from a different timeline than I'm accustomed to.

[AKA "she doesn't love meeeeeeeeeeeeee"]

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[openhands]

[She tries not to jump straight onto the matter that is Anders. She should be given Cullen her attention.]

I am not...familiar with the Inquisitor that is here, but she had made similar choices to the one I do know.

[Okay, no, she can't leave it alone. SHE TRIED.]

Anders is here?

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[serves]

[Talk about a clusterfuck but--]

He is. He's not even been to Kirkwall, yet.

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[openhands]

Is he being watched?

[Because she would prefer Anders to stay on a tight leash. She gives exactly zero fucks about whether or not he's technically done anything yet or not.]

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[serves]

Fenris and I seem to be the only ones concerned about him.

[So. Unhappy. About that.]

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[openhands]

And the others would just-- Even the Inquisitor?

[This is unacceptable. Everyone needs to get their shit together.]

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[serves]

She's... spoken to him, about it. So he's aware.

[That has to do some good.]

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[openhands]

[Still deserving of a teeny growl of frustration though.]

Where is he?

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[serves]

I don't advise taking action just yet, Cassandra. [THE INQUISITOR WOULD BE SO MAD...]

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[openhands]

I just want to know where he is.

[For now. Maybe.]

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[serves]

Is that all? [JUST TO BE SURE because he knows if Anders ends up mauled, everyone is going to look at the ex-templar first...]

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[openhands]

You have my word.

[SHE WOULDN'T MAUL HIM, CULLEN.]

[...unless he started some shit. then c'mon.]

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[serves]

[That's all he needs.]

I believe he's on the SS Golden.

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[openhands]

If you hear of anything, Cullen, I want to know immediately.

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[serves]

Of course. I've not been ignoring him.

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[openhands]

You are not the one I have concerns about.

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[serves]

You should take up your concerns with the Inquisitor. Perhaps she can soothe some of them. [lol likely story but]

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[openhands]

If she will not listen to you, what chance do you really believe there is that she will listen to me?

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[serves]

I don't believe I have any more sway than you do.

[Cassandra is scarier.]

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[openhands]

Ugh, you cannot possibly believe that right now. I hardly know her. Whatever relationship she had with me is purely one-sided.

[Which is uncomfortable as hell because there are definitely things about Cassandra that Jove probably knows that Cassandra would rather a near-stranger not know.]

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[serves]

I find it better to just go along with things such as that. The Inquisitor is the Inquisitor. I can assure you that she's a good, smart, kind woman. You trusted her.