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[katabasis]

[Distracted, presumably by something official:]

I did.

[rathercommon]

Well, just as a piece of advice, never send her anyone's way ever again.

[katabasis]

[A pause. Evidently not the direction he anticipated this conversation going in.]

That's going to be difficult, given her new position.

[rathercommon]

[ Sarcastically: ]

Brilliant choices for filling that seat. Honestly.

[katabasis]

Would you have preferred the illiterate musician, or the thief caught stealing from the Gallows larder?

[rathercommon]

Thief sweet talked his way out of being hanged, didn't he? This woman couldn't sweet talk leaves off a tree in October.

[katabasis]

I believe that half of negotiations are meant to fall to her partner.

[dead stare directly into the camera]

[rathercommon]

She demanded [ that might be too strong a word ] that I leave my room to meet her and then asked me three questions and then decided she was bored and wandered away but not before giving me a bottle of alcohol to sell for money. 'Cause, you know, a girl like me is always either looking for a tipple or something to fence, isn't she. It would have been more dignified if she'd - she'd dropped three copper in my cup. That would have been an improvement.

[katabasis]

She's Qunari.

[rathercommon]

You gonna use that excuse with the Orlesian empress?

[katabasis]

I don't see why not.

Was it the alcohol or the three questions you didn't like?

[rathercommon]

Both. And it wasn't the alcohol, was it, it was treating me like a - a beggar. A drunken beggar.

[katabasis]

What were the questions?

[rathercommon]

Did you go to Minrathous, why's Benedict so squirrely about blood magic. So - two, actually.

[katabasis]

I see.

[No, he doesn't.]

[rathercommon]

You don't get why that's obnoxious? By the way, at the end, she told me I was worthless as an ally or an asset, so that happened.

[katabasis]

Would you have preferred she ask the same questions differently, or just different questions entirely?

[rathercommon]

Different questions. I guess.

[katabasis]

Such as?

[rathercommon]

I don't know. Is there other stuff you know about Tevinter. Something.

[katabasis]

[A pause. Then, prompting:]

Is there? More that you know about Tevinter from when you were there?

[rathercommon]

[ Ah.

Shit.

Kitty freezes, then says, rather stiffly: ]

I mean - a bit. Not much from when I was there.

[katabasis]

[An expectant quiet follows.]

[rathercommon]

I have...a few contacts there. That's all.

[katabasis]

Contacts. What sort of contacts?