Blood from Stone [AU]

[Tethras Clan]

"You should start with the Smiths," Aveline suggests. "If anyone knows where Liz or Cindy are outside of us, it'll be them." She looks Miki over, then adds, "and Beth or I will be healing you before you leave."

[GamesMaster]

Don shudders under Beth's touch, wetting his lips. "You're safe," he whispers, eyes still closed. "I don't deserve you safe. Thank you."

Miki nods. "Will find. Good hunter."

[Tethras Clan]

Aveline snorts. "Based on your record, I won't disagree." More than a few ''suspicions of' but no arrests that weren't obvious bullshit. "Good luck. And thank you. Let me... write a letter to give to Jai real quick." She gets out a notebook from her belt pouches and gets to work on that.

[Bethany]

"Like-" Beth clears her throat. "By the King of Cat's grace and valor, you deserve me. You lived. You came back to me, came back to me untainted and your own person still." Kneeling, she presses a kiss to his forehead. "Everything else- we can deal with."

[GamesMaster]

Don shudders again, falling silent, the tip of his tail twitching. But it's moving, it's showing his discomfort and brooding, his breaths are slow and deep but present -- he inhabits his body again, despite the pain and shame inherent in it. He lives.

[Helene Dakesh]

A moment passes in silence, then, as two of the assembled write, as the others rest and brood. Finally, Helene knocks on the table to get their attention, passing the notebook to Carver.

[Carver Amell]

"Can I read this out?" he asks, after a brief skim. When Helene nods, he clears his throat and reads:

"One: I am Seeker Helene who was Dakesh," he reads, clearly puzzled. "I am not a little girl. I am not a child. I am not female. I am Seeker Helene, I am an adult, and I do not approve of the treatment I have been shown."

Here he looks up, frowning. "We know," he says, before looking back down at the note.

"Two: I have chosen to travel to Draslina for treatment of my worsening condition. I will not be travelling with you to Orzammar."

He looks up again, frowning deeper. "Orzammar? Where did this whole Orzammar thing come from?"

[Varric]

Varric, who had smiled faintly at the first affirmation, looks first hurt, then puzzled at the second. "Ore-mar?" he croaks, looking around. "Hoo'o there?"

[Bethany]

"What? Orzammar?" Beth echoes, also very confused. When was this decided? For who?

[Tethras Clan]

"Six?" Merrill demands abruptly, evidently not having been paying attention to the conversation.

[Carver Amell]

Carver holds up a finger to stop Beth. "Six what?" he asks Merrill. 

[Tethras Clan]

"Curses and stuff. Sorry, I just- that's a lot. Did... did I miss something?" she asks with a blush.

Aveline winces. "That... yes, that's a lot of... damn." How is he even still function? That does explain the issues with his speech and movement, even after being healed. What else is...

[Carver Amell]

"He has six curses?" demands Carver, utterly distracted. "Can you tell which is which? We can prioritize if so."

[Tethras Clan]

"I... yes. At least in a general sense? None seem like urgent, urgent but..." She blushes at the look of ornery disagreement Varric gives her. "I mean like life-threatening urgent." He sniffs. "Umm."

"Carver was reading a message from Helene out to the rest of us. An declaration of th- nir identity and then nir intent to go to Draslina, not Orzammar," Aveline supplies.

"Ooooh." The elf's blush fades and she scowls down at her Dad. "About that... Orzammar? What the hells? And you were super rude and mean to- Wait, right. Umm. When did he..?"

[Carver Amell]

"The ball," he says. "Can you lift the one on his speech first? I'm sure he'd like to contribute. Then his eyes, if you can find that one, unless he says otherwise."