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[agentknockknock]

[As far as she's concerned the voices have fallen into a dull roar in the back of her mind. All of the whispering, threats, and requests blur together into white noise. All of them except for one particular voice. That voice stood out from everyone's. There's no hiding from it so Claudia makes her way back to the source. The voice and the pumpkin

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[sayhitobianca]

[The voices aren't really bothering him. None of them are saying things he hasn't heard before, and he'd smashed Bartrand's pumpkin as soon as he'd found it, before all this had happened.

Well, all right, that's something of a lie. But he's ignoring them, and if they are bothering him, no one's going to find out.

But he knows that's not the case for other people, so when he finds Claudia with her pumpkin friend, he just raises an eyebrow.]

Princess? Want to introduce me to your friend there?

[agentknockknock]

[She registers the joke, but she's not really in the mood to laugh.]

Varric, Jinks. Jinkie, Varric.

[sayhitobianca]

[And she actually introduced them. Okay, he's going to up her current level of crazy a notch or two in his mind.]

Nice to meet you there, Jinks. I've got to say, he's not really looking his best.

[agentknockknock]

[That one earns him a snort.]

He's usually taller.

[sayhitobianca]

[Well, that snort is an improvement, at least. Maybe he can take her crazy down a half a notch or so.]

Figuring he's also usually a better conversationalist.

[agentknockknock]

[This time he gets a smile. It's small but it's there.]

Yeah. Well, real Jinks was. This one's a jerk.

[sayhitobianca]

[Another improvement!]

Ah. I think I'd like the real Jinks better, then. This one isn't making a very good first impression. And those are very important.

[agentknockknock]

[Her smiles gets a little bigger, but it's a sad smile.]

The first time I met Jinks, he had a gun pointed at me. And then I defused Jimi Hendrix's guitar.

[sayhitobianca]

[Right, he only understood about three quarters of that.]

Sounds like quite a party. Interesting things you get up to, back in your world.

[agentknockknock]

[She softly laughs. She sit back on the ground allowing there to be some distance between her and the pumpkin.]

You have no idea. This one time, Ulysses S. Grant's Flask ended up in a civil war re-enactment. Caused this guy to go nuts and try to kill people, like he was actually in the war. We had to dress up in the old costumes to find it. I totally saved his life.

[There are hints of cheerfulness in her voice as she talks about her old case, reliving the good old days.]

[sayhitobianca]

[Distance is a good thing. Distance is what he's going for.

Also, he has no idea who Ulysses S. Grant is. But the rest of that, he gets.]

So your world has items that make people go crazy, too, huh? Good to know we're not the only ones stuck dealing with stuff like that.

You should tell me more about it, sometime. I'm always in the market for a good story.