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“Long time no see,” says the dwarf. Who isn’t really a dwarf, not by dwarf rules, but that has never stopped him.

“Hello, Varric,” says the man. Who is really a man, but should have been something else. A king, perhaps; a drunk; a corpse.

But fate has made them this instead: a dwarf who lives like a human; a king who lives like a commoner.

Fate has made them something else, too. Skyhold’s towers loom above them, promising, menacing. Wheels were set in motion here thousands of years ago that are still turning now; both of them have been raised up on the spokes of history and both of them know the time will come when they are cast back down into the depths. All they are doing here is putting off the inevitable.

“Cold today,” the dwarf comments. Kirkwall had little to recommend it, but he has to admit the chill runs deeper in winter at Skyhold.

“Hmm,” the man, who is used to deep winters, agrees. “Well, you know what they say about the solstice. It only gets warmer from here.”

“Do they say that?” Varric asks. “Who’s they?”

Alistair makes a face. “I should have known you’d ask,” he says. “Can we go inside? Skyhold does have fireplaces, right?”

Varric nods. “And kitchens, and even a roof!” he says. “Over some parts, anyway.”

The warmth of the hearthfires will stave off the cold for now, man and dwarf warming their chilled fingers side by side. They both know they are only delaying the inevitable but, for now, it’s enough.

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I would love to ask genuine questions about some of these I find distinctly intriguing (cassanova, baby I have so many questions), but I cannot resist as a fellow with strong opinions about daggers and swords: what is sword and daggers about?

(asked by @asyouwes)

His hand falls to the dagger he wears at his hip. Hawke’s influence—no, Hawke’s insistence. “In case you need it,” were the words spoken out loud. In case there’s nothing left in him, because Hawke knows. He knows he asks too much and he knows Anders will give it, every time, until the day he can’t. What Hawke doesn’t know is that the dagger is useless—not because of Anders’ lack of skill in close combat; not because he won’t, can’t, use a blade in that way; not because the blood on his hands would break him. The dagger is useless because, long before he reached for it, Justice would consume him. The dagger is useless because Anders made a promise and he knows his soul is already forfeit. The dagger is useless because Anders is alive for a reason and that means he belongs to something else, something that’s part him and part Justice and part beyond either of their control. And it’s ironic, really, that it’s now that he thinks he’s beginning to understand, for the first time since (a man in a cage, a boy in a barn, a child in chains), what it means to be happy.

#wip ask meme #asyouwes