[Continuing, like she hasn't even said anything--]
And we wore disguises. There was a color theme. And there was a secret passage that required blood for access, because the Imperium fucking loves dramatics.
What exactly do you want to know, and why exactly do you want to know it?
I want to know if the people there are doing all right. I know there was a lot of violence. So I want to know if the regular people, the common folk, how much of the damage they took. And the reasons I want to know it, I expect, are obvious, and the reason I'm asking you ought to be obvious, too.
We were in the palace. Came in underground. Our flight was by boat. The upper class appears to be good at pretending or feel very little for the change in regime. Or else the guest list was very carefully chosen. Perhaps a little of all of it.
The mission was focused on the recovery of the Inquisition's members and keeping safe its secrets.
[Were they speaking in person, Kitty would be able to feel the drop in temperature that follows those words.
Both of you. Yourselves. Fucking family relations. His fucking brother.
Flat, and edged with a distinct frost,] I can only speak for myself.
[And also FUCK KOSTOS but anyways]
If you're interested in the fate of the common people of the Imperium, you're not likely to find your answers in the Inquisition's reports. It isn't a specific priority.
Contacts are difficult to keep in Tevinter. Especially now that fucking Corypheus has decided to park a dragon in Miranthus. What little I've heard suggests business is going largely as usual.
Obviously I fucking know that, but it is very dramatic and over the top and wouldn't be out of place in Tevinter, probably, if they knew how the fuck to do it. In any of the noble circles, in any of the countries of Thedas. They'd do it to servants and employees paid wages, too, if they could get away with it.
It's spirits, that're kept as slaves. Spirits who are - well, like us, I suppose - with personalities and intellects and histories. Which is why they're able to banish them. And which is why they're hard to reach.
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Date: 2018-09-06 07:11 pm (UTC)Who is this?
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Date: 2018-09-06 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-06 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-06 08:36 pm (UTC)[ When he was sloppy-drunk, to be fair. ]
Anyway. I'm asking 'cause I want to know what it's like there now.
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Date: 2018-09-06 09:15 pm (UTC)Mm.
[More helpfully (arguably):] There was a party.
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Date: 2018-09-06 09:23 pm (UTC)Very funny.
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Date: 2018-09-06 09:41 pm (UTC)And we wore disguises. There was a color theme. And there was a secret passage that required blood for access, because the Imperium fucking loves dramatics.
What exactly do you want to know, and why exactly do you want to know it?
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Date: 2018-09-06 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-07 02:26 am (UTC)We were in the palace. Came in underground. Our flight was by boat. The upper class appears to be good at pretending or feel very little for the change in regime. Or else the guest list was very carefully chosen. Perhaps a little of all of it.
The mission was focused on the recovery of the Inquisition's members and keeping safe its secrets.
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Date: 2018-09-07 02:37 am (UTC)Wait, that bit about the party. You weren't just taking the piss?
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Date: 2018-09-07 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-07 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-07 06:58 pm (UTC)Both of you. Yourselves. Fucking family relations. His fucking brother.
Flat, and edged with a distinct frost,] I can only speak for myself.
[And also FUCK KOSTOS but anyways]
If you're interested in the fate of the common people of the Imperium, you're not likely to find your answers in the Inquisition's reports. It isn't a specific priority.
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Date: 2018-09-07 07:26 pm (UTC)Not asking the Inquisition, am I. I'm asking you.
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Date: 2018-09-07 09:15 pm (UTC)Which was, and is, its own type of shit. So.
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Date: 2018-09-07 09:21 pm (UTC)I guess a slave revolt was a bit too much to hope for.
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Date: 2018-09-07 10:44 pm (UTC)Are those easy to inspire, where you're from?
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Date: 2018-09-07 10:53 pm (UTC)Slaves are imprisoned far more securely, where I'm from. So - no. But it's not impossible, either.
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Date: 2018-09-11 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-11 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-11 09:41 pm (UTC)Holy shit.
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Date: 2018-09-11 09:43 pm (UTC)It's not something to laugh about.
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Date: 2018-09-11 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-11 09:59 pm (UTC)[ A little reluctantly - ]
It's spirits, that're kept as slaves. Spirits who are - well, like us, I suppose - with personalities and intellects and histories. Which is why they're able to banish them. And which is why they're hard to reach.
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Date: 2018-09-11 10:10 pm (UTC)Then there are no human slaves, where you are from?
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