“𝙎𝙃𝘼𝘿𝙊𝙒 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘽𝙊𝙉𝙀” - 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝙋𝙄𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙈𝙋𝙏𝙎.

accepting @absclutepin

𝑳𝑨𝑹𝑲 𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑼𝑹𝑮𝑬 𝑻𝑶 𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑳 𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑬𝒀𝑬𝑺. Talons had to be the most infuriating group of people in Treviso. Scratch that. Viago de Riva was the most infuriating man on the planet. Her relationship with him had always been agonistic, ever since she was a child. He only cared for the de Riva name and not the people within it. Some head of house, some talon. Dickhead. 

❝ 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭! ❞ Lark retorted, irritating lacing her tone. She let out a sigh of frustration.

❝ 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝.❞ She went on. 

❝ 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭! ❞ Lark proceeded to rant about Viago for the next ten minutes. 

Teia watches her with a measured gaze, her expression curious but otherwise unassuming. She often sees flashes of herself in Gabriela through her untapped fury and her sharpened tongue. Both are powerful weapons, if only they are primed to useful targets. These attributes are two of the many reasons the pair cultivated a near-instant connection all those years ago. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they are also sources of conflict for them from time to time.

“If I did not trust you, Gabi, you would not be a Cantori,” she says simply.  Gabriela was not yet a fledgling when Teia assumed control of their house, which meant that she was not here for the period where Teia had to systematically root out traitors among their ranks and run them through with her knives. The only solution to treachery and betrayal is death.

[ teasing ] a light brushing of lips against a partner's skin without fully kissing / 🤭 from varric @absclutepin

"you are an evil, EVIL man." words said through laughs, cheeks pink and heated. there had been a few drinks -- okay, MANY drinks between them in the hanged man and of course that led them to his quarters upstairs as she demanded to read over the stories he was writing about them. it always just sort of... happened like this. all innocent until it wasn't. eyes ripped away from the page as she leaned into him and it took everything for her not to POUT.

“this can’t be goodbye.” teehee from varric / @absclutepin

"it's not. it's NOT." if there was one person who might be able to match the stubborn nature within varric, it might just be the one standing in front of him now. she wasn't sure if she fully believed the words she was telling him now, that this wasn't the end of them.

but she had to have HOPE.

it's the only thing she had left.