This boot has had worse on it than drool. So long as it doesn't leak in the future, there's no problem - I get a new pair every year now, thanks to being in the guards. One of the benefits!
Ooh, I see regular employment has its perks! I should find some, the best I manage is the occasional pair of torn trousers I find in a barrel in Lowtown.
At any rate, between Teo and this favor I owe you a meal or something, once I sell enough torn trousers to be able to afford one. Thanks.
Don't worry, I wasn't proposing it be a condition of the meal that I order for you. But how is it that you've been drowning in fish? As it were. You know what I mean.
Drowning in fish is a horrible mental image, and yet it's accurate. Fish is the cheapest thing to get here, and they shove it at the guard pretty regularly. At this point, I'd almost kill someone for some good Fereldan beef.
Someday when I'm rich and famous I'll get you another meal with good Fereldan beef, but in the meantime will you settle for pie? I promise no fish. Though probably not beef either, most likely pigeon. Or cat.
...kidding. That'd be if I took you down to Darktown for a meal, which I definitely don't suggest as I want you to like me. I do know a good pie shop in Lowtown, though.
You wouldn't if I fed you pie in Darktown. Trust me.
Pigeon's not bad, actually, with the right sauce. Though I miss chicken. I can't believe I just said that, I grew up on a farm and would've sworn I never wanted to see a chicken ever again. Even as food.
Okay, if you're paying and you miss chicken, I know exactly where we should go. There's a place off Lowtown, heading toward the northern city exit. They get a cartload of chickens every day. I've had the pleasure of eating ONE since I got here.
You're on. One probably uneventful trip out to a mine filled with rocks and turnip-eaters in exchange for one meal of chicken and absolutely no fish. Everyone wins. We'll meet you at the city gates.
"Rocks and turnip-eaters," Alistair muttered as he watched Bethany and Varric go on ahead. Varric had promised "Sunshine" a good meal and a place to rest. Alistair was pretty sure he needed the same. His old-but-good armour had a few dents in it that it hadn't had before, but it had stood up to the punishment better than his Guard armour would've. The silverite was a bit hard to hide, though, and harder to explain if anyone had asked. Thankfully, they'd somehow taken him as some sort of foreign dignitary and no one had said a word.
Hawke probably would. But that would have to happen after the coming conversation about, "I'm pretty sure dragons don't eat turnips."
"I said I was sorry," Hawke groaned, for perhaps the fifth time. Her head hurt. Actually her everything hurt. Thank the Maker Alistair had come with them, that was for sure; his armor was much, much better than theirs.
Suspiciously better, actually, but she was holding that thought for later. Whatever the reason, he'd been able to take a number of hits that would have knocked the rest of them off their feet, and done worse damage besides. In those circumstances, she wasn't going to argue.
Not about the armor, at least. "Though technically the Orlesians call us turnips, and that dragon certainly wanted to eat us, so..."
"So you think it was an Orlesian dragon? I suppose that would make sense, given the thing's attitude toward our fellow Fereldans."
It might not have been the best advised thing, but he still started unbuckling his gauntlets. He wanted air on some part of him, at least, and getting rid of those would be a start. As he flexed his fingers, he sighed. "Damnation, I hate dragons..."
And he hadn't even had to ring a gong this time. Just show up and bam, dragons.
The armor she'd let pass, but this? She shot him a speculative, slightly incredulous look. "How many dragons have you run into?" she demanded. She'd already guessed the number was non-zero, given that he'd shouted out useful tactical advice at the time. "I wasn't aware they were such common household pests. Should I be ordering some powder or something to deter them?"
"I, uh." It wasn't prevarication. His eyes were narrowed and he was trying to count just how many when he ended up shaking his head. "I couldn't tell you. A few, anyway, but I don't know if there's a way to deter them. What I can tell you is where there are little ones, there's a High Dragon somewhere nearby, and the one we fought today wasn't a High Dragon. So, we've not found the mother just yet."
Buckling his gauntlets together, he hung them from his belt, opposite his sword. "So we'll need to keep an eye on that quarry. She's nested around there somewhere."
Male, female, previous romance, sacrifice/dark ritual?
Date: 2018-03-24 09:56 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, I hope you got the drool off your boot and I promise he's very, very sorry.
Male Mahariel, did the dark ritual on his own, romanced Zev.
Date: 2018-04-01 12:36 am (UTC)Awesome. Also I'm assuming Aveline isn't Captain yet.
Date: 2018-04-01 10:56 pm (UTC)At any rate, between Teo and this favor I owe you a meal or something, once I sell enough torn trousers to be able to afford one. Thanks.
That works!
Date: 2018-04-02 09:40 am (UTC)Please don't ask me to eat fish. Please. I'm so tired of fish.
no subject
Date: 2018-04-02 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-07 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-08 10:10 pm (UTC)...kidding. That'd be if I took you down to Darktown for a meal, which I definitely don't suggest as I want you to like me. I do know a good pie shop in Lowtown, though.
no subject
Date: 2018-04-17 06:29 am (UTC)But you don't have to worry, Hawke. I already like you.
no subject
Date: 2018-04-20 10:07 pm (UTC)Pigeon's not bad, actually, with the right sauce. Though I miss chicken. I can't believe I just said that, I grew up on a farm and would've sworn I never wanted to see a chicken ever again. Even as food.
no subject
Date: 2018-05-19 08:43 am (UTC)shall we time skip to after the dragon so they can complain about it on their way home?
Date: 2018-05-23 03:55 pm (UTC)Can do!
Date: 2018-05-30 07:39 am (UTC)Hawke probably would. But that would have to happen after the coming conversation about, "I'm pretty sure dragons don't eat turnips."
no subject
Date: 2018-06-15 10:32 pm (UTC)Suspiciously better, actually, but she was holding that thought for later. Whatever the reason, he'd been able to take a number of hits that would have knocked the rest of them off their feet, and done worse damage besides. In those circumstances, she wasn't going to argue.
Not about the armor, at least. "Though technically the Orlesians call us turnips, and that dragon certainly wanted to eat us, so..."
no subject
Date: 2018-06-22 12:20 am (UTC)It might not have been the best advised thing, but he still started unbuckling his gauntlets. He wanted air on some part of him, at least, and getting rid of those would be a start. As he flexed his fingers, he sighed. "Damnation, I hate dragons..."
And he hadn't even had to ring a gong this time. Just show up and bam, dragons.
"They're more forward in Kirkwall."
no subject
Date: 2018-06-22 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-23 02:19 am (UTC)Buckling his gauntlets together, he hung them from his belt, opposite his sword. "So we'll need to keep an eye on that quarry. She's nested around there somewhere."