"Friends" With Complications
Title: "Friends" With Complications
Series: Dragon AgeCharacters: F!Hawke, Carver Hawke
Words: 3,850
Summary: Follows Coming Home and A Lesson in Change. On his second night back in Kirkwall, Carver has dinner with his sister and nephew so he can talk to her. He has a bit of an ulterior motive for his talk though...one which involves the unofficial Knight-Commander of the Gallows.
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Carver leaned back in his chair as he watched his sister usher her sleepy-eyed son out of the main area of their Gallows quarters. He found it terribly amusing that his sister had ranked one of the rooms in the Templar wing but it made sense. None of the mage quarters were suitable living space for a woman and a child, not even those of the First Enchanter.
He didn’t even question why she wasn’t living in the Hightown estate. After Mother had died, he hadn’t been able to bring himself to walk within ten feet of the door. Then there was the fact that Anders had lived there with her for three or four years. Now he could imagine that she too walked that wide berth around the entrance to the home that held so much sorrow.
Sighing, Carver pushed aside the darker thoughts, recalling instead Mathis’ bright questions during dinner. The boy had been all eagerness for whatever stories he could pry out of the man he’d known of but never met in his short life. Starkhaven was a mysterious beyond for a five year-old and he turned into a proper doting uncle as he put forth a series of tall tales about the city that would have made Varric proud.