XXIII. [Video]

[leaporfall]

Well. I suppose it goes without saying that this place is up to its old tricks again.

[That Marian is one of the people caught up in the latest trick is also fairly evident - her usually fair skin has turned slate grey, and her dark hair has lengthened to brush her shoulders and gone white-streaked. Slender horns curve up and back from her

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[spiritessence]

[If it weren't for the voice, he would've thought she was a qunari woman. Wow. So that's how they look. But the stitches...]

Marian, are you all right? Let me take a look at those stitches.

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[leaporfall]

No, but I doubt you can heal these gods' whims.

[She sighs.] I'm not wounded. They're just - trying to stitch my mouth shut.

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[spiritessence]

[He frowns.] That's...terrible. I think I can at least do something about them. [The stitches. That's just not right.]

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[leaporfall]

What about this place has ever been anything other than terrible?

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[spiritessence]

That is true. If anything, at least it's temporary. [It could just be her qunari-ness but Anders can't help but wonder why she has been acting different lately.]

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[leaporfall]

Hopefully. [She raises a hand to touch the stitches, fingers coming away flaked with dried blood where she'd tugged them out once already.] If this is the time they decide to make it permanent, I'll not be pleased.