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[byblow]

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[elegiaque]

( a short pause. )

I think I'd fall over if I tried to lift a sword. Or a shield. It's my shard, it made a shield - Solas says I have to learn how to control it.

( doesn't she sound thrilled about the prospect. )

With someone discreet, he said. He wants to observe me trying to recreate it.

( alistair is not the top of anyone's list of 'people who are discreet', actually, probably, but their very first interaction was his knowing the value of secrets. so. )

[byblow]

Ah, yes, that's me, [ Alistair says, and pauses prior to pronouncing the next word like something new and unfamiliar, mimicry of her accent included: ] discreet.

--but you want me to take a swing at you without a shield? Is that right? Take a swing at you and see if you may possibly create a shield, and assume that your shield won't bite my arm off and leave it in the Fade?

I'll do it, [ he adds, audibly losing his narrowed eyes and shrugging, ] sure. I just want to be clear on what you're asking.

[elegiaque]

He said someone else has done it and he didn't say anything about anyone's arm getting left in the Fade.

( this would be more reassuring if she didn't immediately sound, personally, somewhat anxious that that might be an option. what if that happens. she will never leave her room again, that's what. this is awful. why does she not have any better ideas than this, this is a terrible idea. )

--thank you.

[byblow]

[ Thanks are invisibly waved aside. So is her anxiety. No part of him will be left in the Fade! He's almost a Templar, he's probably got this. ]

Mmmmaaaybe [ more importantly ] he's being discreet.

[elegiaque]

I'm going to get really good at this shield so I can hit you in the nose with it.

( what if some of him does get left in the fade maybe he will deserve it. )

[byblow]

Careful. Keep talking like that and I might fall in love with you.

[elegiaque]

What if I said it like this.

( she clears her throat. )

'I'm going to get really good at this shield so I can hit you in the nose with it' - ( in the most exaggerated parody of her own actual accent that she's physically capable of producing. )

[byblow]

--eesh. Right. Never mind.

We'll be doing this somewhere discreet, right? So no one sees me hitting an unarmed woman?

[elegiaque]

Yes. I don't know where, yet, I said I would find someone and then talk to him again.

( she did at least have the presence of mind not to say 'alistair will definitely do it' without speaking to him, so there's that. )

He says, 'just don't defend yourself' as if I've actually done that in the first place.

[byblow]

He doesn't seem very bright.

[ Alistair has never spoken to him. ]

[elegiaque]

Apparently he's the best the Inquisition has to offer on rift magic.

( which sounds like 'no, except for how his head is so shiny'. )