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: (to rest in the warmest places)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Cullen takes a knee, starts working on unbuckling Alistair's breastplate, his movements careful, methodical.




"This passes," he says, softly. "Breathe through your nose, slowly as you can. I know it's hard, but it'll help it pass more quickly."
howtoactfereldan: (to rest in the warmest places)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good."

He's loosened the collar of Alistair's gambeson; he moves to the pauldrons, the vambraces, moving as quickly as he can.

"Good. Keep that up. I'm going to remove your mail, all right? Can you help me with your arms?"
howtoactfereldan: (temptations of the wicked)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-27 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Cullen lays out the mail on the floor, and glances up at Alistair.

Wry, as requested: "You mean something wholly accurate and entirely correct about your hair? Such as how I expect you to march right in after your bath and make yourself look like a pinhead again?"
howtoactfereldan: (they shall be named Maleficar)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well.

Cullen's been there, hasn't he.

Still a little wry -- it's weird, but if it helps, Cullen's there -- he says, retaking his seat, "Hence the change of clothes on the bed. Entirely more comfortable than armor."

Entirely better for the waves of sheer panic, he means.
howtoactfereldan: (the one who repents)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-28 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The whole not-sleeping thing isn't sustainable.

Cullen is accustomed to picking his battles.

"There's some kind of tap high up in the tub," he says. "Makes it easy to rinse off quickly. You might find that preferable."
howtoactfereldan: (the one who repents)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-28 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's going well," he says, firm. "The bulk of our forces returned to Skyhold from Adamant a week ago, and we've resumed our regular schedule, with a much better idea of where we need to put our attention, in our training. And we've found more sources for stone, so we're able to make more critical repairs to the towers. It's now much easier to house our people."

Alistair included, Cullen doesn't say.

(He also doesn't mention that -- curiously -- somehow his own quarters still have a good portion of the ceiling missing, as well as a few trees growing out of the walls.)
howtoactfereldan: (judge me whole)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen raises his eyebrows in silent query. He is very curious how this will turn out!
howtoactfereldan: (hymns of praise unending)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen laughs.

"Now you realize why it was one of my first tries."
howtoactfereldan: (though the darkness comes upon me)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
That's -- sudden. Why would Alistair want to -- ?

"...as far as I know?" Blank. "I... don't know if she'd tell me, if the point was to shame me into writing back."

Beat.

"Also, I've never met them."
howtoactfereldan: (though the darkness comes upon me)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Quickly: "No, you had it right. I just -- continue not to understand why my sister hasn't given up on me at all. It's been... at least fifteen years since I've seen any of them. Sorry. That one was me."
howtoactfereldan: (the one who repents)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I rather think abandoning the family and then placing a massive target on their holdings by commanding the forces of the Inquisition would counter any sense of filial obligation," he returns, dry. "Would you find it comforting for me to tick off a list of my failures? I can do that. It's a much easier target than your hair, which is saying a great deal."
howtoactfereldan: (temptations of the wicked)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2016-06-29 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I know myself."

Cullen rips off a small chunk of bread.

"Besides, I've been busy." And tosses it in his mouth.

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