inbox.

[katabasis]

action + written + crystal

Comments

[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?

[rathercommon]

[ mmmm ]

Well - members of the...resistance of the enslaved in Tevinter.

[katabasis]

[A torturous beat. What follows sounds selective to the extreme:]

And you, based on what I assume is the fact that I'm not the first person to hear about this, thought she might ask you about that instead.

[rathercommon]

Yes. And no, you're not the first person to hear of it, so don't take that tone.

[ granted, Kitty doesn't exactly share this info with...many people. ]

[katabasis]

Who did you tell?

[rathercommon]

Yseult knows, I'm quite sure. And Alexandrie.

[katabasis]

[OKAY.]

And what exactly is transpiring with these resistance contacts of yours?

[rathercommon]

I mean - Not much, just at the moment. That I know about. I'm not in their inner circle or anything. But - why d'you think I went to Tevinter with Benedict?

[katabasis]

What you said when I asked the first time - to see Artemaeus' slave freed. Why [the fuck] wasn't this in your report?

[rathercommon]

I suppose I thought you already knew.

[ because she doesn't trust you not to be an EXPLOITER, flint ]

And it was to see her freed. But he asked me 'cause of the people I knew.