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( closed ) but if you never try you'll never know
Who: Robyn, Brennan, and Dorian
Where: Third floor, room 028
When: July 29th
Rating: PG
Summary: She'd been dragging her feet in telling the truth to two of her closest friends in Wonderland. Finally, she brings herself to their door with the intention of speaking it.
The Story: [ Her heart hammers in her throat as she stands outside of the room that belongs to Brennan and Dorian. The Warden stands, rising and falling from the tips of her does, fist hovering just in front of the wood without knocking. She'd said weeks ago to Alistair that she would tell the others the truth, that the people she considered close friends deserved to know. It still feels wrong, as if she's about to burden them greatly, but... the other Warden had been right. If it were one of them and there was the chance she may never see them again, she would want to know.
Robyn pushes herself to knock, swallowing, lowering back down to wait, anticipatory, on the ground. ]
Where: Third floor, room 028
When: July 29th
Rating: PG
Summary: She'd been dragging her feet in telling the truth to two of her closest friends in Wonderland. Finally, she brings herself to their door with the intention of speaking it.
The Story: [ Her heart hammers in her throat as she stands outside of the room that belongs to Brennan and Dorian. The Warden stands, rising and falling from the tips of her does, fist hovering just in front of the wood without knocking. She'd said weeks ago to Alistair that she would tell the others the truth, that the people she considered close friends deserved to know. It still feels wrong, as if she's about to burden them greatly, but... the other Warden had been right. If it were one of them and there was the chance she may never see them again, she would want to know.
Robyn pushes herself to knock, swallowing, lowering back down to wait, anticipatory, on the ground. ]
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There were different paths she could have taken, paths their own world's Warden had chosen, and yet it felt just as wrong to tell her she could have chosen differently as it did to keep secrets at all.
The only right choice was respect, support.]
Even if you chose...
[He shakes his head a second time, not wanting to accept this as Robyn's reality.]
No. My apologies. What you did, your sacrifice-- I'm not certain there's anything more brave or selfless.
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Maybe it had been naive. Selfish, even. It's too late for those kinds of what-ifs. ]
I was hardly the only one to die that day, and not the only Warden, either. [ Riordan had been killed by that dragon, too. ] I only did my duty.
[ Really, she might have died in a much more painful way; Robyn barely remembers any discomfort at all, once the pillar of light engulfed her and the archdemon both. ]
I didn't tell you to be lauded as a hero. [ She continues, as if there had ever been doubts about her thoughts on the title 'Hero of Ferelden.' ] I told you because you're my friends, and... I don't want to lie about it anymore. Not to you.
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We're not lauding you as a hero, sweetling. You're Robyn, you're our friend, before everything else. We can mourn our friend at the same time as admiring her for making one of the most difficult choices of her life. And saving the world, whether she wants to be modest about it or not.