[Whatever clever thing - Araceli always has a clever thing to say, it's practically what she's known for along with the climbing, the gambling, the shadow shaped like a fox - dies in her throat. One day Leandra will have children because she is the queen, her line is unbroken, and that isn't up for negotiation beyond the timing of it; Araceli will still be a guard, protecting Leandra's child will come under protecting Leandra too.
(Only she imagines that it's different, when it's the child of the woman you share a bed with.)
Her bracelet slips down, knocks against his hand when she twines their fingers without thinking, swallowing back a painful lump as she smiles. Do not cry. The spell breaks if you cry. There is no sea here to take your salt tears.]
Zevran-- [How often does Araceli Bonaventura y Castell get flustered, she can probably count those times on Skyhold on one hand with fingers to spare.] Softness...it keeps you from breaking. Even here. Even when it would be so easy to be hard? When I teach people to fall from a rooftop first I tell them not to be tense, not to be hard, to stay loose and to accept it. A bruise heals easier than a bone.
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(Only she imagines that it's different, when it's the child of the woman you share a bed with.)
Her bracelet slips down, knocks against his hand when she twines their fingers without thinking, swallowing back a painful lump as she smiles. Do not cry. The spell breaks if you cry. There is no sea here to take your salt tears.]
Zevran-- [How often does Araceli Bonaventura y Castell get flustered, she can probably count those times on Skyhold on one hand with fingers to spare.] Softness...it keeps you from breaking. Even here. Even when it would be so easy to be hard? When I teach people to fall from a rooftop first I tell them not to be tense, not to be hard, to stay loose and to accept it. A bruise heals easier than a bone.