Payment for services rendered. It is only just. Though, depending on how this particular adventure goes, I may just wander about with you for a time afterward.
The thing about paranoid men, Alistair, is that when something happens? They are satisfied in knowing they are correct. When nothing happens, and nothing happens for a long, long while? They wind themselves into knots trying to figure out what they've missed. Several masters of House Arainai I simply did not have the time or means to get to before coming here did the work for me, preferring that to whatever torments they imagine me capable of.
Then again, they did train me, so they would know.
[ He doesn't actually feel sorry for the Masters. The little he knows about how Zevran was treated is plenty to make him agree they should be dead. But. ]
No, I guess not. [ He's quiet for a moment, then brightens. ] I could ask to be assigned to the north for a while, so you don't freeze. After this I think I'll have earned that much.
If the world doesn't end, I can probably go wherever I want. There won't be another Blight for a hundred years at least. There's nothing for us to do until then but make sure we don't die out. And I have seniority now over a lot of people. I'm very old in Warden years. [ Pause. ] Probably not as old as you are in Crow years.
Most Crows are either dead or masters by twenty seven. Were I still of them I'd likely be a grandmaster now- well. If they could get over the fact that I am an elven son of a whore.
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Date: 2015-12-07 09:42 pm (UTC)[ It's the same tone he used to take when Cousland gave him presents. ]
What about your Ombra Nera-ing?
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Date: 2015-12-07 09:48 pm (UTC)Then again, they did train me, so they would know.
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Date: 2015-12-07 11:05 pm (UTC)[ He doesn't actually feel sorry for the Masters. The little he knows about how Zevran was treated is plenty to make him agree they should be dead. But. ]
You aren't tormenting them, are you?
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