#rookery

The Rookery at Streatham.

Lucanis:

"What? Haven't you met Cousin Tony? Yeah, you can trust him. He got me out of a damn tight spot a couple of months ago. Tarquin figures he's military intelligence*, but he's family, too, and clearly he knows how to keep his mouth shut when it comes to the important things. Disappears for long stretches of time and tends to show up juuuuuuust in time to do something so dramatic you'd swear it was out of a serial."

@shadow-dragon-week takes place July 5–11, 2026!

*definitely not Tevinter military intelligence

Antoni, also known as the Magpie, was very memorably in Minrathous in the spring of 9:44 Dragon. There are a lot of Mercar cousins, and he was... uh... well, it would have been weird if he wasn't around before that. Octavian is almost sure that one prank that backfired horribly on all of them when he was 12 was Cousin Tony's fault. When Antoni was in his early 20s, he took a contract did a favour for a friend of the family by tracking down a murderer in the Necropolis who had been killing low-ranking apprentices from Tevinter. That's where he met (@beepoven's) Ingellvar.

Everyone knows that if you spot Cousin Tony, he (or possibly she or they) might be undercover, so it's better not to use his name until you're absolutely sure you know what's going on.

Antoni's got a soft heart, even if he does like his ironic punishments.

... spiral ...