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You know, you don't need that many excuses or reasons to replay the game. You could have just admitted you missed my charming personality, my amusing sense of humor, and my good hair, and that'd be enough. The whole, 'I have to get everything perfect for that next game' thing was really last play through. Come on, it's not that hard to admit you missed me, is it?

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They missed you? Were they late? Oh - or were you late? That could have been the case, if you were very busy.

[Merrill...may not quite be getting the right idea here.]

Why don't you ask them if they can meet up again? I'm sure they wouldn't mind.

I guess you could say she's very late or too early. [ Oh, don't change, Merrill. ]

The only reason I'm even here is because we've been seeing a lot of each other. But enough of that, how are you doing? Hopefully you brought that ball of twine Varric lent you since this place is a ways off from Kirkwall.

I did! I have it right here, somewhere...

[She rummages around for a moment, then triumphantly holds up the ball of twine. The pleased expression on her face doesn't last long, however, turning slightly uneasy as she casts a glance around.]

This place is so much bigger than Kirkwall, Hawke. I'm not sure there's enough twine to go around.

[Still, she is nothing if not optimistic, shaking off the faint worry a few seconds later.]

I've had some talks with some very nice people while I've been here, though. And Fenris.

[ She actually really does have it? He chuckles briefly. ] It's bigger than what I'm used to, too, but don't tell anyone I said that. [ He looks at the twine. ] I'll think we'll both somehow manage, though, if we work together.

I told you that you'd eventually make friends or at the very least nice people to talk to.[ Oh, Fenris... ] A conversation with Fenris falls into its own category, doesn't it?

[She believes that, too. She never gets lost when she's following Hawke. But conversations with Fenris are a whole other matter, and she's quick to shake her head.]

Oh, no, it's not that!

[It's totally that, who is she kidding?]

It was a very nice conversation. [Sort of.] He must have just been cross because he was being sent to somewhere he didn't want to go.

[ He knows she's just trying to be nice, but he knows much better. ] Nice, huh. I'm sure you know a few more adjectives than that. [ But that second part, now that gets the gears turning and he starts to take this conversation a bit more seriously.]

What do you mean he was being sent somewhere he didn't want to go? [ He's hoping that's Anders' clinic or something. ]

Civil? Not terrible?

[He didn't even call her witch once, which is a positive thing as far as she's concerned.]

It was one of those places that people tend to go from here, I think. One of those other worlds where things tend to happen. The sorts of things that happen to us, only worse. This one...was a place where he would lose his memories again.

[In retrospect, maybe the conversation was a little terrible, but it had been because of finding out about that place, not because of the way he'd treated her.]

It's progress, so let's acknowledge that. [ He's not hoping for a miracle here. ] So about the others you spoke to, anyone interesting?

[ He knew asking Merrill for more details would not be the most accurate or best thing he could get, but enough is said that it concerns him. ] Things. [ He repeats because he has a feeling they aren't entirely good things.] Is there a way to stop it? Fenris surely wouldn't go without a fight.

[There were plenty of interesting people, admittedly. And normally she would share, but she's caught that tone, so she gives Hawke a mildly reproachful look instead.]

They're not all bad things, Hawke. I went to a perfectly lovely place for a visit for a little while, and nothing bad happened there.

...The bushes were a little uncomfortable, though.

[Right. Moving on.]

But you're right, I don't think he did. I don't think he had very much choice in the matter in the end, though.

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Going on an adventure without me, Merrill? It's good to hear you had a good time, though, and you eventually returned safe and sound. [ At least it seems that way. ] Bushes, always getting in the way with their bushy antics and behavior. When will they ever learn manners?

[ He'll make a note of that, but he wants to keep the conversation on her. One misfit to worry about at a time. ] I see. I'll talk about it if I see him.

[That's probably for the best. Fenris would be able to explain things much better than she could - unless he'd forgotten what had happened, of course. That's a worry for another time, though. For now, she seems happy enough to focus on the matter of the bushes.]

Actually, they were very polite. They didn't complain when I fell into them, not even a little.

[Well, unless one counted the sound they'd made when she fell into them as complaining.]

The frogs, on the other hand, weren't the least bit shy about saying how they felt. You know, I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like them in my whole life.

It is difficult to forget one such as you, Hawke. [Coming from an elf with memory issues, yup.]

Really? And why's that? [ He fully knows, and then some, but he's just being a butt. ]

[Fenris is not going to feel embarrassed. Nope.] You've made a name for yourself where others would run in the face of adversity. [It's not just that either, you butt. ~~It's the beard too.~~]

Well, you can only run so much before you become surrounded, but I could say the same to you about not running. [ Not to mention trouble keeps finding him anyway. ] See, that whole 'people knowing my name thing' is really starting to get me into a lot of trouble these days. [ It's always the beard. ]

You seem to handle the trouble rather well. [Admit it Hawke, you'd be bored otherwise.] It is as I have said; you are a difficult man to forget.

You know, after a while it turns into a schedule. Blood mages with demon friends on Monday, raiders and slavers on Tuesday, zealous templars on Wednesday, someone in our merry band of misfits having a personal crisis on Thursday, and I try to have a three day weekend, but it's always 'Hawke this' and 'Hawke that' so it doesn't happen. [ Of course he would get bored. ]

You're not exactly easily to forget, too, Fenris, and I'm not talking just about the whole fisting thing most people get so hung up on about. [ Get that heart comment out of there, Hawke. ]

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