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[ex_frolics736]

Who: Merrill.
Broadcast: Fleet-wide.
Action: SS First Breath, whenever.
When: APR 12 - 18.

Oh. Oh dear.

[ Is it a Welsh pixie? It certainly sounds like one. Pointed ears, short black hair, intricate tattoos across the angular plains of her face. But no, despite the accent, Merrill is neither Welsh, nor pixie.

Currently she's balancing on one bare foot, trying to shake something brown and sloppy off the other. It would be easy to jump to the wrong conclusion at first, but everyone gets a dessert when they arrive, so closer examination will make it clear that she's only stepped in chocolate cream.

Though really, how she's managed that is anyone's guess. ]

I am... so sorry. It wasn't something important, was it? Eugh, it's all slimy.

[ Given she took a while to get used to Kirkwall, a couple of days prowling about the Marsiva and her brand new augment really aren't adequate preparation for the sleek metal and digital displays of a spaceship.

Though later, she might be found in Engineering, trying to work out how she knows anything at all about this strange contraption, but also delighting in the fact that she has all this new knowledge, and more right there to learn about. Merrill isn't very good with people, but she loves magic, and to her view all of this technology isn't too different.

Or you can always call her once she's washed off her feet. ]

Comments

[forcemageure]

I suppose you can! Assuming they're also being jostled about inside floating tin cans. In my case, however, I'm still only talking to you.

[ex_frolics736]

I don't really think I'm the great defender of anything, Lethallin.

[forcemageure]

[ The one man drama machine craaaanks itself up, Hawke sighing and slumping his chin into one hand. ]

Right. I thought--well, never mind what I thought. You obviously don't expect me to have breasts, that's a bonus. If I threw a fireball right now would that seem at all odd to you? Aside from my apparent disregard for the furniture.

[ex_frolics736]

Well, it might seem odd if there was nothing to really throw the fireball at. And if there were, then I'd expect you'd be using that Abyss-pull spell you like— should we be talking about this? There's a lot of people listening in, and at least one of them is definitely a Templar.

[forcemageure]

Oh, that's just Cullen. Still running things through for the Maker [ lol, the Maker ] and everything, but less with the smiting mages lately!

[ He is so relieved ...now uh, there's just the pressing issue of what he suspects has less to do with who he is, than when. ]

Bear with me a moment, I do realize how silly this question sounds from the viewpoint of any sane person. What year is it back home?

[ex_frolics736]

9:38 Dragon. We had just decided that we probably shouldn't stay in Kirkwall. Was it not for you?

[ He did say it was three years since he's seen her, but Merrill had assumed that was three years here, in space, somehow. ]

[forcemageure]

Right, because of the--[ he waves a hand, demonstrating what is obviously the universal symbol for 'theoretical Exalted March' ]--right. No, it's ...a bit later than that, I'm afraid. It was 9:41, though Maker know what's happened since. Could be an entirely new Age for all I know.

[ The Age of UltrNo. Anyway. He doesn't actually reiterate that this means she will go on to do great things, because like Aveline, he's always thought that. Like Aveline he's also always thought blood magic was a phenomenally poor choice, but if she's not bringing that up now neither is he. ]

[ex_frolics736]

You mean we've travelled in time!

[ She sounds disconcertingly more thrilled than like... confused or horrified. ]

Has Varric written a book about that yet, because he should.

[forcemageure]

[ The enthusiasm makes a nice change, considering. Hawke doesn't dwell often on things that are impossible to change (...although when he does he is of course spectacular at it), so please, keep throwing sunlight at things, Merrill. His crinkly eyes reflect as much. ]

Oh, don't let him hear you suggest that before he decides to write another one about me. I've missed being famous.

[ No. In fact he absolutely has not. ]

Though I'm not sure it's so much that we've travelled so much as it is ...if we were all stones lined up in a row a person could choose some to pick up and move without disturbing any of the others.

[ He's outlining this with his hands, naturally, although if they had access to actual like, nature, it would get involved too. ]

[ex_frolics736]

All right. So that's why you didn't miss me, even though you're from the.... future.

[ But then quieter, under her breath. ]

Elgar'nan, three years.

[forcemageure]

They're not ones I'd choose to live twice, if that helps at all.

[. Such dry. Many wry. ]