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Alistair ([personal profile] byblow) wrote 2017-12-21 08:08 pm (UTC)

Yes, someone really ought to.

But that someone isn't Alistair. Not intentionally, anyway. He's barely twenty-three, frequently a bit drunk, occasionally a lot drunk, only nominally in charge of anyone, and doesn't really think of himself as someone who deals with things.

But he is a person who's been asked to go look into a possible darkspawn sighting at the closest settlement, and a person who's been told to take one of the new recruits along, and a person with a heart big enough to pick out the most scraggly puppy in the litter to love the most.

So he's outside her tent now, giving the upper point of canvas a quick and friendly rattle, like a knock. "Von Skadder," he says. "Skater? Skrate—Warden." That will have to do for now. "How do you feel about horses?"

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