Greet it? Did you miss the assignment completely? Am I speaking to the lyrium wraith tucked between your ears?
[Astarion might be actively grousing, but he’s rising to his feet all the same, skulking over like a bristling cat reluctantly called by its doting owner: head dropped, eyebrows furrowed, lips drawn into a curling sulk.
It isn’t that he isn’t pleased to see Fenris so happy in the middle of the circling nightmare of these last few months (beaming bright as sunlight itself— wolf writhing beneath his scrubbing fingertips, having fully adjusted to his stern instruction— no, don’t pay any attention to the fact that the only reason why Astarion is conceding to this is Fenris' look of glittering warmth), but a wolf....
A Fade-touched wolf of all things, skulking about in the middle of bloody Kirkwall..... Gods above, they're going to be run out of the city soon enough.]
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[Oh tell him you're joking, Fenris.]
Greet it? Did you miss the assignment completely? Am I speaking to the lyrium wraith tucked between your ears?
[Astarion might be actively grousing, but he’s rising to his feet all the same, skulking over like a bristling cat reluctantly called by its doting owner: head dropped, eyebrows furrowed, lips drawn into a curling sulk.
It isn’t that he isn’t pleased to see Fenris so happy in the middle of the circling nightmare of these last few months (beaming bright as sunlight itself— wolf writhing beneath his scrubbing fingertips, having fully adjusted to his stern instruction— no, don’t pay any attention to the fact that the only reason why Astarion is conceding to this is Fenris' look of glittering warmth), but a wolf....
A Fade-touched wolf of all things, skulking about in the middle of bloody Kirkwall..... Gods above, they're going to be run out of the city soon enough.]