justice_is_blond | Inbox for Fade Rift

[There's a long, long silence from Anders.]

There have recently been... matters where I question her judgment of late. I don't know what's going on. A mage was being assaulted by a Templar and she stood back and watched and apparently didn't mind her husband simply standing back and watching either, for instance.

It's... I don't know if I should speculate, but there's a chance she's simply missing her family and so desperate for her new family that she's sacrificing who she was.

She and her husband did what? I didn't like her already after the crazy kid talk but that's just wrong.

[He's really not big on people getting hurt and others watching.]

Sod it all, a want for family or not she needs to get herself in line. And I'm the one saying that.

[He doesn't know what the crazy kid talk is, but he figures he should offer up his gossip first.]

It seems Aleron was one of the Seekers who came to Kirkwall to see if Meredith truly was going too far... and he was one of the ones who decided she was entirely fine.

[His voice is utterly disapproving. This is one of the huge factors in why things went the way they did, but no one cares and no one will care. It's safer and less scary to assume it was all one mad mage.]

A mage came up and slapped him, one of the ones he'd helped bring over from Starkhaven. She survived the slaughter of her friends at Templar hands by pure luck; almost all of those mages died horribly. The mad Templar apparently tackled her and pinned her painfully. For a slap. And then, after she'd been questioned, left in pain while pinned, he threw her. None of the three present, the mad Templar Cade, Aleron, or Bethany, did anything to help her or anything to lessen her pain.

I'm not surprised that a Templar and a Seeker would be fine with the abuse of a mage, still not surprised that they're fine with harm being done to one who had previously suffered. I am, however, disappointed in Bethany. I don't understand how she could do that.

Now what's the crazy kid talk?

[He's grumbling a lot over this. It's wrong. He doesn't like it...]

She was helping me pick out things for my boy in the market. We got to talking about why she was buying for other people's little ones and I figured she was compensating since she can't have any now. Got to feel sorry for those Wardens that want to have children after they get the blood in them.

Well I told her she could adopt. That way she'd be able to handle it and she's of mothering age. Then she told me that sometimes Wardens can have children like some sort of woman mad on hope. Figured I should let her know what the sodding reality is and she got all up in arms with me for farting on her slice of nug pie.

Now she's telling people she wants to find her sister who has been missing for ages but told everyone she won't listen to rumor or what others might have heard. She only wants people to talk to her if they have seen the Hawke.

She's bloody mad and I can't say I like her at all between that and what you told me.

There's one Warden who has born a child. One. And given all else that happened with her I'm fairly convinced that blood magic was involved. For Bethany to think herself capable... Maybe something's happened recently, she's struck her head or, I don't know. It's delusional, though, and I'm a little worried.

Especially worried about the delusion it takes to think someone with a crystal is going to have a non-rumor lead on where Marion's gone. My network has rumors, but Hawke is missing. As in, all we've got are rumors, nothing solid.

I don't know what's going on. Maybe I should speak with her.

Wait a sodding minute. What Warden had a child? I don't know about this.

It's not common knowledge. It's only something I've found out as I've been digging into trying to cure the Blight, and that's not a name I can give you, I'm sorry.

Especially when I've just offhandedly accused someone of blood magic. It's nothing against you, simply that it was a secret shared with myself, Bethany, and Merrill and I don't feel comfortable giving the name to anyone.

If she's decided to hope because one warden in all of recorded Warden history has safely delivered a child, she's far less intelligent than I thought.

That's fine. Sometimes you have to keep your word no matter what. Not a good place to be in but it happens.

Still, the girl is losing it, Anders. Thinking she can just have a child without dangerous works that might hurt others, letting mages get hurt, refusing information while asking for it...

I'm going to let you know now that I'm not going to have a good time working with her from now on.

I understand.

[He sighs heavily.]

I'll speak with her and see if I can find out what's going on.

[If it's the Blight getting to her already, for instance. It's not like he can tell Nate that one of his choices for promotion is already doing the opposite of inspiring confidence, not when Anders had been as upset as he was about his lack of promotion.]

Try to work with her if you can? I'm not asking for her sake, but for Nate's. I'm... biased there.

[He gives a bit of a growl then a huff.]

I'm not promising anything other than I'll try. And if you tell anyone you convinced me to do that much I'll knock you in the stones so hard your ancestors will sing.

[He breathes out a sigh of relief.]

My lips are sealed. Thank you.

[Things that make Nate's life easier by definition also make his life easier. Though he'll have to go and do the hard work now and dig to figure out what's actually going on with Bethany. A healer's job is never done.]

Is there anything else? Not that I'm currently busy; the opposite, really.

That does it. I just figured I'd ask you since you knew her before all this. Though if you want to get some food we could do that. You healer types need to remember to eat so you can keep up that taking care of people stuff.

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