❄️ out here it’s like i’m someone else

[tilfrosset]

Type: Text
Sender ID: tilfrosset (Jill Warrick)
To: Public
Subject: On comings and goings...
Warnings: None

Many people come here looking for a way back to their world and I cannot blame them. The idea of mysterious rifts controlling when we come and go... it's more than one can take. Should take, even.

But if it's not asking too much, I'd like to seek out a differing opinion:

If you had the choice to leave this place, would you stay instead? Why?

Comments

[weisshappened]

We've got a whole team, yeah. But half of us are here. Can't put the whole plan on the others' shoulders.

Besides... they're my people's gods. It's personal.

[tilfrosset]

You, Neve, and Harding. Would the other two agree?

Elven gods? Does it not feel blasphemous to take on your own deities?

[weisshappened]

Plus one more. He just got here.

Probably would. But I never really believed in them, personally. And when they're trying to end the world, it's hard to care about anything except stopping them.

[tilfrosset]

Oh? What's his name?

[Unbeknownst to Jill, she's met him and his little friend already.]

If that is the case, I hope you and your friends find the solution you desire. Both in returning home and liberating it.

[weisshappened]

Lucanis. If you meet a man who looks like he hasn't slept in ten years, funny accent, that's him.

[... he's not wrong about the insomnia though.]

Yeah. Me too. And that's why I can't stay, given the option.

[tilfrosset]

Lord Dellamorte.

I wouldn't describe him as so. Yes, his manner of speech did strike me as unfamiliar, but referring to it as funny would be more than a bit rude.

[Notice she says nothing about how tired Lucanis looks. Jill assumes the presence of a demon sure doesn't help with that.]

I have another query, if you don't mind?

[weisshappened]

Don't worry, I tell him that all the time. He calls me self-righteous right back. We're good.

[They've progressed from Murder to Give Each Other Shit - at least from where Davrin comes from in the timeline.]

Go ahead. I'm listening.

[tilfrosset]

Self-righteous? I don't agree except in your opinion of slugs.

[Did he think she would ever let him forget that? Never.]

If the issue with the gods had been settled (or simply did not exist to begin with), would your answer remain the same?

[weisshappened]

Next time I run into a banana slug, I'll bring it to you for some affection.

... Yeah. It would. If the gods weren't trying to rip down the veil between worlds, I'd still have a duty with the Wardens. There would still be Blight, and Darkspawn - people still need defending from them.

I'm a Grey Warden. Above all else.