bringspeopletogether: ([misc] in another life)
Alistair ([personal profile] bringspeopletogether) wrote2016-06-24 05:18 pm
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[sandbox] out of the abyss

It starts as a shimmer out by the lake. Look at the water from the right angle, and the light glinting off it looks a bit...green. Sickly.

(Familiar, if you're from a certain time and place in Thedas.)

Look up some minutes later, and you can pinpoint the source: a thin, glowing ribbon uncoiling in the sky. It emerges slowly, but the more light it casts, the more momentum it gains, until it explodes outward with an enormous crack like lightning splintering the ground.

A much quieter thump follows as something hits the dirt.

Someone.

The glow vanishes; the person doesn't move for a long beat. (Get up, he's telling himself, get up -- ) He manages to drag his hands level with his shoulders, press down to bear himself upward an inch, look up at where he's landed.

Get. Up.

Another shove, and Alistair lurches to his feet, sword hauled from its scabbard and shield at the ready. His breath rattles, harsh against his throat, as he stares wild-eyed around the grounds.
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-26 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"One among many."

There are... lots of them, lately. Usually surrounding the Inquisitor.

"So... let's try to have you not run into anything for a while."
howtoactfereldan: (they shall be named Maleficar)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-26 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"We'll send a raven first." He's sobered up. "Maybe try to get word to Hawke on her way. And in the meantime... you can rest at Skyhold. Or -- wherever you'd like. But you have a place with us, until... whenever. Don't -- worry about that now, all right?"
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-26 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whatever you want."

Crooked smile.

"I just thought that would have the most chance of... breaking through."
howtoactfereldan: (though the darkness comes upon me)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I had that thought."

If Cullen had a free hand, he'd rub the back of his neck.

"Will you -- be all right, if I go downstairs for a moment? I can try to have someone bring it up, but I don't know who might be around that I could message from up here."
howtoactfereldan: (Default)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 12:56 am (UTC)(link)

"Of course," Cullen says immediately.

He's not going to question that. How could he, when he's felt the same more times than he can count?

"And I'll leave that here, too." He nods at his sword. "So you know -- I have to come back for it." That last -- a little awkward. "I'll be back."

howtoactfereldan: (they shall be named Maleficar)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen squeezes Alistair's shoulder once he rises. "I'll be as quick as I can," he says.

Food. Water. A change of clothes. An actual cheese plate. Shouldn't take too long.
howtoactfereldan: (judge me whole)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Five minutes, maybe a little less. That's all. Cullen treats it like a sortie -- move fast, stop for nothing and no one, accomplish your objective, return to your defensive position.

He keeps the list in his head, repeats it to himself. Food. (Bread and broth. A roast chicken, for him and for Alistair.) Water. (Clear and cool, stowed away in a glass jar.) A change of clothes. (Plain, soft linen for sleeping; something comfortable and practical for when Alistair wakes.) A cheese plate. (A fancy one.)

Laden with bags, Cullen doesn't quite sprint up the stairs, but neither does he move at a normal pace.

"Alistair, I'm back," he says, before he enters. Just in case there were any ideas about demons that reappeared while he was gone.
howtoactfereldan: (the one who repents)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen looks at the hand on the wall. Looks at Alistair.

The bags go in a nearby chair; the cheese plate goes on the table next to it. "Good." Calm. "If you still don't want to sleep... can you choose? Food or a bath? There's clean clothes in here."
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen laughs, and picks up the bags from the chair. "Sit, then. Broth first."

He rummages through the bag with the food, and brings out the jars, the bowl, the cup, the bread. "If that sits well, we've a chicken to split. It can wait."
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Cullen pulls the folded clothes out of their bag and arranges them on the bed -- it's frequently awkward, being watched while you eat, and Alistair's day is bad enough.

"I admit I wanted the roast chicken," he says, cheerful. "My motives thus aren't entirely altruistic."
howtoactfereldan: (though the darkness comes upon me)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Cullen pauses.

"I forgot a knife," he says.

Something glimmers from the formerly empty bag.

"...never mind."

He joins Alistair at the table. "Aren't we civilized."
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"...what, since we were on a battlefield in a Blighted desert inhaling bits of old Tevinter brick?"

Cullen says this as he slices into the chicken just enough to rip off a piece with his fingers. He's very classy.
howtoactfereldan: (though the darkness comes upon me)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
He eyes Alistair, a little worried.

Not like scintillating conversation is the point of this, though; the point's to get something in Alistair that will help him function.

Still, he's loathe to let silence linger too long. "I got a letter from my sister," he says instead. "She found me again. Even wrote back this time."

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