( open ) who have given their love

[chantes]

Who: Leliana + OPEN
Where: Multiple locations
When: February 27 + 28
Rating: PG
Summary: A new arrival is getting her bearings
The Story:

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( 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.

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 )

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( 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.

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 )

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( 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 )

Comments

[heroica]

[ It's a day like most others. The Warden is outside, practicing with a longbow (not her forte, not like the crossbow, but worth the practice). She's drawing it back, feeling the way her arms tense, taking note of her stance... until an arrow, not her own, flies forward. It pierces the target dead-on, and the surprised young woman turns, brows raised, to congratulate the other archer.

The sight stops her words, stops her thoughts. Robyn's mouth falls open slightly even as her mabari bounds forward to greet the newcomer. Her grip on the weapon goes slack as everything but her heart slows down, and it's all she can do to stare and continue staring. ]

L - [ Leliana. It's been months since the bard was last in Wonderland, since she vanished right around the same time as... so many others. Robyn's close friends from both Ferelden and Wonderland have been disappearing one after another, so many that she'd begun to question if her own time was drawing near. Here, though, is one who'd gone. Returned.

Robyn isn't cynical enough to ask if it's a trick or illusion. ]

... You've come back. [ She breathes, dazed. ]

Gardens

[jivitadana]

[It's still a bit cool out due to the season, but it was getting much better. The gardens were a good place to take a walk if someone wanted to get out of the mansion for a bit. The beach was also nice as well. Today though he picked the gardens because it was a shorter distance from the mansion and maybe it was a little too cold out by the sea.

He did take off the silver headphones from his ears and turned off his mp3 player when he saw someone else in the gardens too. That bow reminded him of someone at home who used the same weapon.]

There's more like those on the other side of the fountain.

[He did wonder if the plants changed each year or with the seasons, but he hadn't been here long enough to find out.]

slides in late, gardens!

[normandysbest]

[Shepard tries to keep herself busy in Wonderland, and despite the temperature, she's always been a bigger fan of doing her daily runs outside than in. She's jogging through the gardens, wearing her workout pants and hoodie her tracking visor playing a custom playlist when she spots the other woman, and slows to a stop. Not many people come out here, and much less to mess around with the scenery, unless...]

You new around here?

[She calls it out, trying to be inviting as she shuts her music off and takes a moment to wipe some sweat from her brow. Wouldn't be the first time she spotted a new person in the gardens and had to give them directions.]

all the cool kids meet in the chapel;

[morework]

[ The dogs wake Cullen just before dawn. He turns, and finds the other side of his bed empty. Searching Wonderland is futile. He does it, all the same. The result was expected: Hawke is gone. They say that if a person goes for good, their room disappears as well. With their room shared, how is he supposed to know?

Cullen makes his way to the chapel. Will he come back? No, the real question lies beyond that: Should he come back? It takes less than a day to miss him. Just as little time to wonder if Hawke deserves to be free of this place. Kirkwall is hardly a reward by comparison either. And Wonderland still has to be stopped. It's nearly enough to pretend his reasons are selfless, when he thinks that he needs Hawke to return...

Cullen catches the prayer, just as he enters. He wondered about her disappearance just the same. And today of all days--The Maker has a strange sense of humour. Or does he owe the irony to their captors? ]

It brought you back.