bringspeopletogether: ([warden] look to the sky)
Alistair ([personal profile] bringspeopletogether) wrote2017-07-01 04:58 pm
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Skyhold gets quieter and quieter as the days move on. It's not a complete stand-down; there's cleanup to do, stragglers to round up, the same sort of business Alistair remembers from the months after the Blight. The Thaw, as Wardens call it. Thedas is thawing again, but the fortress only grows colder for it.

He won't lie: he'd feel warmer if Kieran and Morrigan were still there.

When Cullen suggests a vacation, Alistair lights up, only to deflate slightly when he realizes they'll be "vacationing" in Orlais. There's business to attend in Val Royeaux -- not the sort of business that'll keep Cullen occupied from sunup to sundown, but enough to require an in-person visit for a week or so. On the one hand: Orlais. On the other: he can't argue that time away from Skyhold, especially in Cullen's company, will help.

...So will the cheese, probably.

(Look, as Alistair has said many a time, he is a very predictable man.)

They room at a small place in the university quarter that's downright plain for Val Royeaux. Libraries for Cullen, a cafe around the corner for both of them, limited contact with people trilling about whatever stupid, petty scandal's hit the court this week -- it could be far worse. Alistair takes to writing his letters at the cafe, usually accompanied by some flaky pastry or another.

Today, they're cheese-filled. It's hard to descend too far into a personal funk when you've got a cheese-filled pastry.
howtoactfereldan: (judge me whole)

[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2017-09-13 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Cullen laughs, too. "You think?"
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Another soft laugh, and he resettles himself more comfortably against Alistair. "Good thing we've got another chance coming up, isn't it."
howtoactfereldan: (all things in this world are finite)

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A little hesitant:

"We can... give it a little more time first? Just wait a bit right here?"
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Cullen breathes out. And does the thing that isn't snuggling. Because he would never snuggle.







"That wasn't so bad, was it." Softer.
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Cullen snorts, loudly, stiffening. "I'd hardly call that well."

As always, the sharpest side of his tongue is reserved for his own failures.

"Choosing between cowardice by panic and cowardice by drink isn't well."
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"You don't?" Cullen retorts.
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Every retort Cullen can think of is a terrible one, and involves saying something harsh at Alistair when -- and Cullen knows this much, believes this much -- Alistair's been good about this when he didn't have to be.

So he swallows his words, and instead says nothing at all.
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[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2017-09-13 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
His shoulders slump. His head lowers.

(In every command he's had, he's had soldiers like him. He's being harder on himself than he would ever be on them, and Cullen knows it.)








Low, unhappy:

"We've hit the part where I tell you that you'd be better off with someone else and I'm not worth this."
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Cullen shakes his head a little.

Glumly, he mutters, "At least I'm cycling through it more quickly."
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[personal profile] howtoactfereldan 2017-09-14 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Cullen can't even stir himself to say something cross.

He slumps against Alistair, instead, head hitting his shoulder and closing his eyes, and doesn't say anything else.
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He's a little more relaxed now, at least.

"Nor shall I," Cullen murmurs. "Far be it from me to corrupt the innocent."
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"Your Orlesian isn't anywhere as fluent as it could be. You wouldn't appreciate it properly."

That might have a hint of a ghost of a smile along with it.
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"Once you're good enough that Josephine and Leliana threaten to set you translating, I'll share the song."

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