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( open ) who have given their love
Who: Leliana + OPEN
Where: Multiple locations
When: February 27 + 28
Rating: PG
Summary: A new arrival is getting her bearings
The Story:
Where: Multiple locations
When: February 27 + 28
Rating: PG
Summary: A new arrival is getting her bearings
The Story:
robyn cousland( It was over. The breach had finally been sealed, and when the Inquisitor had returned from the sight of the battle she'd explained the story. Corypheus was gone -- destroyed and banished, with the lights that had been seen signalling the end of it all.
the gardens
It had been destructive, and a little satisfying to hear.
Though she hadn't breathed a sigh of relief then, preferring to wait until they'd returned to Skyhold -- to find safety before allowing herself to celebrate, Leliana was relieved. Though Thedas would no doubt still be chaotic for some time the threat was over, and some tensions were easing slowly due to the Inquisition.
When Leliana turns, lowering her bow, she'll discover that she was right to not yet celebrate yet. The change in location has her confused, finding herself now in a forest rather than the ruins of the Temple of Sacred Ashes. There's a frown for a few seconds, and her companions are nowhere in sights. It's with a few careful steps that Leliana moves through the forest, an arrow prepared in her bow to remain ready to strike should a threat reveal itself.
Leliana walks for a while, suspicions rising as she finds herself evidently alone, until the sounds of arrows into wood drift into her hearing. She follows, hoping for answers, though it would seem that a question would come first.
Robyn?
Although Leliana could only see the woman from the side, and though she hadn't seen her in ten years, there was no mistaking the sight of her friend. It couldn't be, though-- Robyn was dead.
It was hard not to be sucked in by the sight of her, to be wishful even if that hope felt foolish. Leliana didn't want to think that she had seen stranger things, but there was only one way to know for certain. Raising her bow Leliana released her arrow into the target that Robyn had been aiming at. Friend or foe she would receive answers )( It was all real apparently. Though much made little sense Leliana could at least believe that Robyn wouldn't lie to her. She may not understand Wonderland but Leliana had at least accepted it was real. If it was real, and if they truly were to be stuck here then Leliana needed to know her way around the place. Coming from the forest the gardens were easy to find, and a pleasurable sight once she was there.
the chapel
She had her bow at her back now, walking slowly through the gardens as if she'd chosen to come here willingly. As much as this place was strange and unsettling she could not help appreciating a beautiful sight. There were few good things that Leliana could think of for Wonderland but this would be one of them, though perhaps the rest was to be discovered. Robyn had told her what had been important, and then they'd spent longer discussing everything but Wonderland. If there was beauty to behind perhaps it would be wonderful to do so.
After a few minutes of walking Leliana bends down to sniff one of the flowers, almost to check whether they were as real as Wonderland was )( The chapel had come up in their discussion, in her "Wonderland 101 by Robyn Cousland". She expects nothing like a Chantry, perhaps only a chapel in name alone, but it's more than that.
It takes mere feet after Leliana walks in to understand why it is here, and why Robyn keeps watch over it. Robyn won't be alone in that, and as Leliana walks through the chapel she bows her head, stopping at the front )
Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just.
( She hasn't come to pray, or to offer a full verse, but she can still show respect in this moment, and until she returns again )
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Robyn Cousland. ( There's one final scratch on Oren's head before Leliana rises, continuing ) The Warden that fought against all hope.
( She's stepping closer now, any doubts that she had of her friend gone. Whatever has brought them together again must have something unusual to it, to not only bring Robyn back to her but to cause such a confusion. Hopefully-- hopefully this works )
You inspired many, bringing hope -- reigniting dreams. The battles were nothing in comparison to the woman, who reminded Ferelden that they could trust again.
( Who reminded Leliana that she could trust again. That sentence causes Leliana to pause again, the light that had been brought to her face from her tale falling, and she stops in front of Robyn )
I thought you were lost. I saw-- ( But Robyn knows what Leliana saw, and she doesn't want to finish that particular sentence, quickly moving to the next ) How are you here?
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You do remember. [ She can't help but smile, then, big and glowing. Thank the Maker. ] I hardly did all that on my own, as you know better than anyone.
[ If others, strangers in the distant future, wanted to laud her as a hero - well, she doesn't like it, but she can't argue with them for fatal reasons. Leliana, though, she is happy to disagree with. ]
I did little in the scheme of things. [ She asserts, but softly, stepping nearer. ] Without you all at my side, none of it would be possible.
[ She'd been a noble's daughter, after all, with no worldly experience to speak of.
Then comes the more difficult part. Robyn chooses her words carefully, happiness fading a touch as the subject changes. ]
I was. I did - [ Die. She bites her lip. ] ... This place has magic not found in our world. It brings... people, and creatures, from impossible places. It does impossible things.
[ Changes memories. Revives those who were dead. ]
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( Had Leliana attempted to fight the Blight alone, not finding the Warden but following her vision in another direction she likely would have been dead. The same could probably be said for all of them -- Robyn may not feel as if she did much but she brought people together, and small action had larger effects.
To Leliana she deserves all of the praise )
I am happy to see you again, though this place-- ( Leliana trails off, not quite sure what exactly it is, or what to ask about it. She could press for more on Robyn, on how she's here, but for now she will settle with her just being here ) Can we trust it? Trust what the magic can do?
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I'm happy to see you, too. More than I can say. Though - I imagine it's... alarming.
[ Not even because of Wonderland itself. Because Robyn had died, had been dead, and... here she is, living and breathing.
Again, her smile thins at the question. ]
Are you worried that I've come back an abomination?
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( Robyn was not an act. Leliana had shared far too many moments with the woman to know that this was real. Robyn was real )
I am concerned more for this place than what you are. I have seen acts caused by magic that I would not have believed if I had not seen them, but this place is another thing.
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I have a lot to tell you, especially since you don't remember your last visit. [ It won't be an easy or fun conversation, but she would do anything for her friend, and the least of it all is to explain their situation. ] But... not here. If you're not opposed to it, we should go to my quarters.
[ Where it's at least a little more private-seeming. ]
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( Leliana's curious as to what Robyn has to tell her, and what exactly happened on this initial skirmish into this mysterious land )
I may have some myself.
( If she hadn't divulged it all last time, but ten years is a long time, surely there's something still left to say )
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You've obviously come from your time with the Inquisition. Which year was it?
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I seem to have informed you well.
( As confusing as perhaps it could be, or would be with Leliana not knowing what Robyn knows, it may help -- she'd already know something about the world that Leliana now lived in. She's also assuming that it's her that gave her the information rather than someone else, not expecting anyone else to be here )
It has been ten years since the blight.
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[ Even though they're only traveled in Ferelden when Leliana was younger, their time in Wonderland hasn't left her memory. The bard has always been a close friend, but is an invaluable ally as well. ]
Around the same time, then. [ She wonders if Corypheus has been defeated, yet, but... it may be too soon to ask. ] And you really remember nothing of the time you spent here?
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( And Leliana would love to have remembered her time with Robyn, to know of the adventures and time that they spent together. They have more time now, and new memories to be made )
Perhaps you can tell me some of it in between my own tales.
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[ Excepting the time when the Warden was bitten by something undead and Leliana herself had to slit Robyn's throat. That story will go untold. ]
This is Oren, [ She says abruptly, glancing to the dog as they enter the mansion. ] and not Calen. He... didn't come with me from Ferelden, but I found a mabari here.
[ One not so well-trained as her bonded pup, but a good one all the same. ]
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( An unexpected one maybe, but always a good friend to have, and this one seems just as smart as Calen was, or just as loyal )
Do you often find things from Ferelden?
( Old friends not included )
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[ Thankfully, they haven't cropped up again since. ]
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That tunnel now. Was it sealed?
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[ 'They all were.' Because there were more than one, preventing the Warden from keeping people away. ]
Residents went down in search of treasure. [ She reports quietly. ] And they found the blight.
[ More than one had to be killed, and though they also returned to life, it made the experience no less traumatizing. ]
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Then they were lucky that you were here.
( Though she has yet to know that it would have been spawned from her, or Leliana's own memories. But had Wonderland come up with something else alone-- )
That is one part of our past that I would not have liked to have seen again. It was unsettling in the tunnels.
( A feeling she may admit only to Robyn )
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[ Let's be honest: who does, though? ]
It was. [ She agrees earnestly. ] I'm glad to have been there only twice now.
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( The darkspawn had still been everywhere, their numbers and groups still large. They didn't need a blight to provide terror and chaos )
There is no end.
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[ There's something there, the familiar feeling of... disquiet, when their worlds don't quite connect. ... Of course, with her own situation, Robyn has never met the Inquisitor of her own world and has no concept of what that person might be like. ]
A woman?
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Lavellan. She was who the world needed even if she was unprepared for that burden.
( Does that sound familiar at all, dear Robyn? )
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[ At that, she smiles fondly, heart aching for her lost friends. ]
... Though, the Commander recalls a dwarf, I believe. I've yet to hear of an elf, I think.
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( Surprise. She's giving you many of those today, but at least they are all good ones. Perhaps later, if Robyn asks, Leliana will tell her some of the tales of Ellana, if they differed from this other man )
I suppose for this other Inquisitor you had not been our Hero?
( She couldn't imagine it being different any other way )
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He... wasn't sure, actually. [ She wears a bemused expression as she closes the door behind them. ] He and Dorian knew that the - Warden had been a woman called Cousland, but they didn't know much more. [ ... ] Except that this Warden had wed Alistair and became Queen.
[ Which means the woman had convinced Alistair to undertake Morrigan's ritual, an idea that brings displeased spots of pink to her cheeks for so many reasons. ]
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( Leliana doesn't have to ask given that she was there, and she understands entirely for Robyn's reaction. She looks away, giving a glimpse around the woman's room and making a show to be entirely interested in that to ignore the pink in her friends cheeks )
I imagine that your room at Highever looked similar, hmm?
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