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Now, Mundane, is this really a good time? Yes, even I can enjoy a little fresh air from time to time, but there are several things that require your attention. You do only have a few days left to finish up, after all.

Besides, aren't you the one who said you needed time to "adjust"? Relax. I'll be here when things settle down and you have the time. I have my quill, and I have paper, and the things I hear up here would write their own novels, so stop worrying about what happens next and get to work. Stories don't write themselves, you know.

Although, when you're done? We're going to have to discuss that name you chose for yourself. Why you picked that when you could have chosen anything else...[siiiigh]

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If possible it's better to go into things prepared and ready to focus your full attention on them. It's unfortunate that it just isn't always possible.

People have always managed to get through unfortunate circumstances before, Madam, and they come out stronger for it. Just look in the mirror if you need an example.

I wouldn't call it always getting through the circumstances.

Aveline, would you be here if you hadn't gotten through them? Would any of us? I think not.

I'm not arguing that point.

The question is where we'll be able to go from here.

I think the better question is where won't we be able to go. You have to admit, this place is a lot bigger than Kirkwall.

There's also a lot less structure to it. Perhaps that suits you better.

Perhaps, but who said I didn't appreciate structure? Whoever told you that was lying to you. Even stories need structure, I'll have you know.

Maker knows that I don't understand what that structure is.

[Chuckle] They're just like life and everything in it, Aveline. They have to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's what happens in them that doesn't have a structure.

What meaning can the outer structure have if the middle doesn't have any?

Are you asking that about my stories or about life? Because a lot of people have wondered that and have yet to find an answer.

Maybe I mean both, Varric.

Then when I find out, Aveline, you will be the first to know how an ending can make sense when everything leading up to it didn't.

And I suppose that you're going to tell me that you won't know that until you get to the end.

Something like that. Were you expecting something else after this long?

Of course not.

[Hawke'll just be over here. Smirking.]

[Yes, yes, smirk all you want. Varric sees you there, Messere.]

Something funny, Hawke?

[We figured he would.]

Oh, hilarious.

[Well. You are hard to miss, what with being twice his height and all. You humans are just so tall!]

What? Don't tell me you assumed you were the only one with a troublesome Mundane trying to pull your strings.

Not in the least, my friend. I just find it amusing that I'm not the only one.

Just one among millions, Hawke. In that aspect, you're as normal as the rest of us.

Finally, thank the Maker.

I thought you'd like that. I'll admit it, though. I'm a bit surprised you didn't seem to realize it before.

[Unless he's wrong. Which has happened before...not that he'll ever admit it in public.]

I've been locked in a box for the last nine months, Varric. I haven't noticed much of anything. ...save for the noise-level of my "cellmates".

Being locked in a box implies you got out before, Hawke. You didn't find out you weren't the only one in this "situation" then?

[Honestly curious and...yes. Starting to worry a notch or two. Hawke please tell him you haven't spent the entire time locked in your Muns headspace.]

I didn't pay much attention before. [You know how he is, Varric. SHINY! and off he goes.]

But, other than having to rub elbows with strange folk, it wasn't really that bad. AlthoughIreallydontwanttogoback...

[A nod at that. Oh, he does indeed know how Hawke is. It's exactly why he tagged along so much: someone had to keep him from charging at the first shiny thing he saw. Maker knows mages are horrible about seeing traps before they run into them.]

I can't say I blame you. I'd rather live the rest of my life in the Wounded Coast then go to some of the places out here.

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