Something like that. I suppose a lot of things become habit when its your way of life.
[ She really can't remember too well the ideas she had for herself after leaving Ferelden but it certainly hadn't been joining a band of teen outlaws. Never mind it had easily been some of the happier times of her life. ]
[Avery doesn't say anything, just grunts a small, curious "huh" and eyes Ciri like she's trying to take the measure of her again, giving her a chance to either expand on her last thought or not as she chooses.]
[ She hums thoughtfully, rolling over onto her stomach and allowing herself to float for a moment with arms folded atop the side of the bath. Taking ano ]
After I got out of Ferelden but before I ended up a Warden, I ran around with this group of other kids stealing shit from whatever place we could break in. Most of the stuff we fenced off, gave it to folks that needed it but we also kept what we wanted or just liked best.
[ The silence is a nice change of pace to the noisiness of the last few days. Floating, she idly sips from the bottle thinking back on those times with a frown. It definitely wasn't smart even if they thought definitely at the time.
Now she's trapped in this life with tainted blood that'll kill one day if this war doesn't kill them all before then. ]
Around four years from right around the time before I turned fourteen. Though it wasn't so bad until the when we ran the wrong carriage off the road, threatened the wrong noble girl.
[ She raises her own drink, finishing off what little remains before lifting herself from the water in order to set the empty bottle aside and grab another. ]
What about you? Any sort of shady past brought you here into the arms of the Inquisition?
[Judging by the kinda uncomfortable look that passes over Avery's face for a moment, this swallow of her drink may or may not be an attempt to stall for time.]
Not really. Those were two completely separate things.
[ It is said with a shrug as glances over, listening quietly before speaking: ]
And that's fine. Listen, I'm not here to poke and prod about shit that folks don't want to talk about. I know how much of a pain in the ass that can be.
It's not some great tragedy or nothing, where all my children were eaten by demons coming out of a rift or whatever.
I got hurt in the fighting between the mages and templars in the Hinterlands. [Her hand sort of subconsciously drifts to her burned side.] An Inquisition healer helped me, so I thought I'd help them in turn.
[All said in a way that attempts to convince Ciri this WASN'T the worst experience of Avery's life, spanning several months of incapacitation, horrible pain, and the certainty that she was going to die. How well she manages this feat is... debatable.]
[ Again, Ciri listens on in silence besides the slow sip of her drink. The fighting in the Hinterlands had been rough from what she had heard while holed up in the Anderfels. It had been angering to imagine considering how stupid the mages and templars had to be to get innocents caught up in their stupid war. ]
A good a reason as any. Besides we need more people around here without great tragedies because the Inquisition is starting to sound like a hastily written story in the back of those dirty magazines.
[She scoffs, unsure of how to feel about that response.]
Tell that to the last arsehole I told that story to. He said I was whining wannabe martyr for even bringing it up when mages have it so much worse, and I had it coming anyway, and more, because of how little I cared about them, by his numbers.
Seriously? Give me a name and I will. [ Honestly, she looks offended. ]
Those mages put themselves there by their own choices. I lose sympathy for anyone that drags innocents into their trouble because, by their fucking excuses, they have it so much worse.
He was just some prick who went on and on about how important being kind and caring is and all the things I needed to do to be a good person, while acting like a right arse himself. Mocking me for the way I talk when I called him out on his bullshit, treating me like I'm an idiot and a monster, saying me and everyone else who's got caught up in this fighting "had it coming."
[ She got along well enough with Anders for the sake of not having to listen to the self-righteous bitching of why she was wrong like what happened before in their talk about the shitty talking darkspawn they apparently had a deal with. But, at the end of the day, she'd never like him. She'd never not hate him deep down. He went against her one true vow in life to never hurt the innocent. ]
He blew up a fucking Chantry, he doesn't get to call other people monsters. But I wouldn't mind him since there's only one issue that matters in his eyes and fuck anyone else. Forget that you might have your own issues trying to make it day to day because the poor mages are the only ones that matter.
Yes, we Wardens are protecting him from whatever he might have deserved. A shame, truly. It's for the best I was not here when that judgement came to pass...
[ She idly shrugs, raising a leg from the water and stretching her toes with a sigh. ]
But... that's enough about him. Last thing I want is him ruining my good bath without even being here.
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Date: 2016-11-18 06:38 am (UTC)[Avery sinks down to her shoulders and sighs as she starts rolling her neck again. Maybe THIS will finally get that stiffness out.]
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Date: 2016-11-18 06:46 am (UTC)[ Not that she certainly hasn't flirted her way into several of those wine cellars. ]
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Date: 2016-11-18 04:28 pm (UTC)You make a habit of that?
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Date: 2016-11-18 06:35 pm (UTC)[ She really can't remember too well the ideas she had for herself after leaving Ferelden but it certainly hadn't been joining a band of teen outlaws. Never mind it had easily been some of the happier times of her life. ]
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Date: 2016-11-20 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-20 10:25 pm (UTC)After I got out of Ferelden but before I ended up a Warden, I ran around with this group of other kids stealing shit from whatever place we could break in. Most of the stuff we fenced off, gave it to folks that needed it but we also kept what we wanted or just liked best.
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Date: 2016-11-22 10:15 pm (UTC)Not the easiest or smartest life, that. How long were you at it?
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Date: 2016-11-22 10:44 pm (UTC)Now she's trapped in this life with tainted blood that'll kill one day if this war doesn't kill them all before then. ]
Around four years from right around the time before I turned fourteen. Though it wasn't so bad until the when we ran the wrong carriage off the road, threatened the wrong noble girl.
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Date: 2016-11-23 08:39 pm (UTC)[The line isn't delivered mockingly. Just quiet and matter-of-fact.]
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Date: 2016-11-23 09:00 pm (UTC)[ It is said quietly and even a little tiredly. ]
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Date: 2016-11-24 04:32 pm (UTC)Fair enough.
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Date: 2016-11-24 09:30 pm (UTC)[ She raises her own drink, finishing off what little remains before lifting herself from the water in order to set the empty bottle aside and grab another. ]
What about you? Any sort of shady past brought you here into the arms of the Inquisition?
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Date: 2016-11-25 02:46 am (UTC)Not really. Those were two completely separate things.
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Date: 2016-11-25 03:01 am (UTC)Right, well... change of subject then. Hiding any tattoos or questionable piercings? [ A chuckle. ]
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Date: 2016-11-25 03:45 am (UTC)[The sarcastic response is automatic, but after, Avery frowns, now aware that Ciri picked up on her moment of discomfort there.]
Look, it's not--
It's stupid. [And the last time she tried to talk about her reasons for joining the Inquisition with someone, it went very poorly.]
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Date: 2016-11-25 03:49 am (UTC)[ It is said with a shrug as glances over, listening quietly before speaking: ]
And that's fine. Listen, I'm not here to poke and prod about shit that folks don't want to talk about. I know how much of a pain in the ass that can be.
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Date: 2016-11-25 04:12 am (UTC)I got hurt in the fighting between the mages and templars in the Hinterlands. [Her hand sort of subconsciously drifts to her burned side.] An Inquisition healer helped me, so I thought I'd help them in turn.
[All said in a way that attempts to convince Ciri this WASN'T the worst experience of Avery's life, spanning several months of incapacitation, horrible pain, and the certainty that she was going to die. How well she manages this feat is... debatable.]
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Date: 2016-11-25 04:27 am (UTC)A good a reason as any. Besides we need more people around here without great tragedies because the Inquisition is starting to sound like a hastily written story in the back of those dirty magazines.
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Date: 2016-11-25 04:46 am (UTC)Tell that to the last arsehole I told that story to. He said I was whining wannabe martyr for even bringing it up when mages have it so much worse, and I had it coming anyway, and more, because of how little I cared about them, by his numbers.
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Date: 2016-11-25 04:56 am (UTC)Those mages put themselves there by their own choices. I lose sympathy for anyone that drags innocents into their trouble because, by their fucking excuses, they have it so much worse.
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:20 am (UTC)He was just some prick who went on and on about how important being kind and caring is and all the things I needed to do to be a good person, while acting like a right arse himself. Mocking me for the way I talk when I called him out on his bullshit, treating me like I'm an idiot and a monster, saying me and everyone else who's got caught up in this fighting "had it coming."
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:30 am (UTC)[ She got along well enough with Anders for the sake of not having to listen to the self-righteous bitching of why she was wrong like what happened before in their talk about the shitty talking darkspawn they apparently had a deal with. But, at the end of the day, she'd never like him. She'd never not hate him deep down. He went against her one true vow in life to never hurt the innocent. ]
He blew up a fucking Chantry, he doesn't get to call other people monsters. But I wouldn't mind him since there's only one issue that matters in his eyes and fuck anyone else. Forget that you might have your own issues trying to make it day to day because the poor mages are the only ones that matter.
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:49 am (UTC)Aye. I'd heard that one was here.
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:56 am (UTC)[ She idly shrugs, raising a leg from the water and stretching her toes with a sigh. ]
But... that's enough about him. Last thing I want is him ruining my good bath without even being here.
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Date: 2016-11-25 06:07 am (UTC)[Dark bathtime is the worst kind of bathtime.]
So what's the opposite of that? A topic that makes a bath better rather than worse?
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