audience: astarion

[mygod]

Comments

[haematocritical]

[ heeheehoohoo ]

Potentially. Usually something useless though.

[mygod]

Is that like a... wizard... thing?

[ she knows all about wizards. SOMEONE won't fuckin shut up about wizards. ]

[haematocritical]

That is absolutely a wizard thing! Yes. If I tell you ask Gale about it because my magical knowledge is lacking, are you going to potentially burst into tears?

[mygod]

No...

[ she is definitely lying. ]

I don't mind listening, but you get so lost a few sentences in.

[haematocritical]

He has a lot of thoughts up there in that big old brain of his. Most of them slip out.

[ honestly, what a mood. filter? we don’t know her. ]

Nodding at appropriate points helps you seem engaged.

[mygod]

[ she nods her head at this ]

You guys are all pretty good friends?

[haematocritical]

I—

[ …….. ]

… I suppose?

[mygod]

[ help. ]

You sound unsure.

[haematocritical]

The circumstances of the three of us meeting were... unique.

[mygod]

I heard about a little bit of it from Karlach. Just... the general meeting, and Gale was in a rock.

[haematocritical]

I think our meetings all differ somewhat. Gale would tell you I tried to interrogate him with a knife. I would tell you he was absolutely stuck in a rock.

[mygod]

Ahh, he did mention your memories don't all match with each other...

But how did it go on your side? Anyone else pulling out knives?

[haematocritical]

[ hmmm. ]

Lae’zel, sort of. She did try to kill me on the Nautiloid.

[mygod]

[ why is no one from somewhere normal... ]

Was there a reason why...?

[haematocritical]

She’s Lae’zel.

[ … ]

Also she thought I was turned past the point of normal conversation at first, but honestly what did she expect when she leapt out at me with a sword?

[mygod]

Ah...

Well, you all got over that, then?

[haematocritical]

… She’s still very Lae’zel.

[ what does that mean. ]

But having everything you ever knew and believed ripped out from under you and laid bare as a lie at your feet does tend to humble a gith’yanki.

[mygod]

Mm...

[ does not ask what a gith'yanki is ]

What's the rest of your group like? Do you all get along now?

[haematocritical]

[ probably a good idea. ]

… As well as a bunch of very different people working towards a common goal can get along, I suppose? Most of the major interpersonal arguments and conflicts have been ironed out by now.

[mygod]

[ she nods... ]

Were you particularly close to Karlach and Gale before this?

[haematocritical]

…

[ was he? ]

I don’t… really know. I knew a lot about them, certainly. Perhaps they would say they knew more about me, given the circumstances.

[ … ] Or maybe they would say so, and I just wasn’t really able to see it. [ it’s less words, but pestilence may get the feeling he’s thinking about a specific moment. karlach telling him how proud she was of him. things like that. ]

[mygod]

[ ... ]

I guess it is difficult to tell how you stand with others. Sometimes, it takes something very... major, for you to be able to look back and realize there's something special happening.

[haematocritical]

[ i s2g if one of them dies before i do i'm gonna be so mad let astarion die ]

Ominous thing to say here of all places.

[mygod]

It doesn't make it any less correct!

[haematocritical]

May I long remain ignorant and un-attacked by major things then. Moreso than I already have beem