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[propheretic]

propheretic dasharathi lavellan ( DA: I )	eleutheron fenris ( DA II )
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- leave a comment; blank, with pictures, with prompt, etc
- select character or i will; AU or OU or whatever
- will play dasharathi as companion
- presume dasha & fenris are unromanced, but OTA for whatever

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[propheretic]

It's only midday, and Dasharathi is already exhausted. The morning was a whirlwind of meetings and debates, followed by a spate of extremely Important visitors who demanded (literally, sometimes with subtle death threats) his attention, followed by a sad attempt at lunch. He'd barely broken the bread when a messenger flew at him with crucial reports from Leliana's people, and he'd barely started to read those when yet another Orlesian noble rode in on a white horse with an ostentatious retinue, bellowing about being shown the respect due his house and so on.

Thus, when this perfectly unassuming and nondescript woman catches him wandering, slightly dazed, down the front hall, his first inclination is to lie wildly. But he discards that; it's not in accordance with his nature, and he is a terrible liar even when rested and properly fed.

"Ah," he says. "Me. Because--I'm him."

He smiles tiredly.

"What can I help you with?"

[teyrnshitup]

Elissa knows that bone-deep fatigue, reading it from the line of his shoulders and the moment it takes him to gather himself to answer her. The fate of the world is too heavy a burden for any one person to carry. Fortunately, she's learned, you don't notice just how much so until you set it down again.

"Convenient," she says, sympathetic humor rippling through her voice. "I thought I was going to have to go through a half-dozen functionaries."

Straightening, she tosses back her cloak, revealing the Warden Commander arms on her breastplate, and pushes back her hood to reveal her face--a detail less important than her heraldry in a world without photography.

"I'm Elissa Cousland--or Theirin, if you prefer." She herself doesn't. Her birth name is far more illustrious than her husband's. "And I'm told your organization has been looking for me."