IC CONTACT - DRIFT FLEET

[wolfuncaged]

FROM: SUBJECT: KIRK Fenris? It's me. Can I come in? MARIAN/CLOUD Meanacing DORIAN Well, I wasn't certain what to expect... JUSTICE You seem to have escaped the planet unharmed. RIONA You know, when someone is three sheets to the wind and suggests a threesome... RIONA Fenris! It feels like ages since we've spoken. KIRK ACTION MARIAN Fenriiiiis ADALWOLFE please tell me you didn't sleep with Isabela too ANDERS :3 MARIAN This will do KIRK Can we talk? MARIAN You're a mess, Marian. ADALWOLFE Special delivery! ANDERS Maybe it will help with your face. HAWKE Fenris? You there? VARRIC Don't-- don't do anything. OCTAVIA Hey, Fenris ELIZE Fenris? JOVE ACTION STEVEN fenrisssssssssssssssssssssssss ROBIN Listen, Fenris, I know you don't give a shit about me, but-- FELIX Fenris, I apologize for contacting you in this way, but I was wondering... JOVE SO ABOUT COLE JOVE STRAWBERRIES

TO: SUBJECT: KIRK About Anders KIRK Kirk wakes KIRK Kirk? Can we speak? MARIAN Where are you? We need to speak. KIRK You wish to speak HAWKE We need to speak VARRIC Varric. Varric. Varric wake up. JOVE Jove. May I have a moment of your time? JOVE Can we speak? Are you busy? HAWKE Is there anywhere on this blighted hole we can find any decent alcohol? JOVE I was spiteful and angry to you, and I owe you an apology. HAWKE Hawke. Did you know the Inquisition have a demon? VARRIC There is something I need to tell you.

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Comments

[wolfuncaged]

They fill in a lot of gaps. Chiefly how the sky could start raining demons in the first place.

[He smiles, faintly.] Sebastian is not one of prejudice such as that. He would be more upset about your being a mage.

[dawnwillcome]

Yes, we're working on that. Do you remember that green magic I used on the dragon? That was how I open and close the rifts, it's not, ah... typical magic.

[Not everyone is as op as her Fenris you're safe.]

And I happen to be a very nice mage, so I'd hope he would forgive me this one failing.

[wolfuncaged]

I did wonder what that was all about. I'd never seen anything like it before.

[Which is unusual because, well, Tevinter. ]

Maybe. If I can enjoy your company, I'm sure he could manage it.

[dawnwillcome]

[Honestly she had been expecting a worse reaction, for him to trust her less because of the things she had hidden, the station she held that she had been keeping from the entire fleet. And more than that, that her powers that tied directly to the Fade would put him on edge, make her more unstable and more of a threat than most mages, but he's... accepting.]

It means a lot that you would still feel that way after hearing all this. I consider you a friend, I'd have hated for the truth coming out to ruin that.

[wolfuncaged]

[Of course, Fenris' terrible secret is that he's tied to the Fade himself. Every time he phases, the lyrium tugs at the edges of the Fade, he slips through, partly. Of course, he doesn't say this. Not to her, not to anyone. ]

You're stopping the demons from tearing Thedas apart. That is what is important. As for your position. [A shrug.] You have met Hawke, right?

[dawnwillcome]

[She smirks at that.]

I have in fact met Hawke. They wanted her to do my job, before they put the title on me. I think things worked out well though.

[With all that out of the way, Jove finally goes to sit down, smile twisting into more a of a rueful sort of look.]

But now that you know I'm the Inquisitor, I thought it would be good if we talked about Cole. Since Dorian was telling you he was part of our organization and it's nearly impossible to keep secrets with Cole around, it only seemed right for me to come clean so we could try to come to an understanding about him.

[A beat.]

Try is the operative word there.

[wolfuncaged]

I don't think Hawke would enjoy leading the Inquisition He...or she is more inwardly focussed. They never wanted to be involved in the mess in Kirkwall. It just...happened to us all.

[Ah. Here it comes. Fenris' face twists into an ugly scowl for a moment, before he settles for a more all-round look of irritation.]

I have promised to leave it be. So long as it does not come near me, we will have no problems. However foolish I think you are all being.

[dawnwillcome]

His name is Cole. I'm not asking you to like him, but tolerating him could start with not calling him it. He saved my life, you know, and Dorian's life too.

[And almost the entire population of Haven, but Dorian will be the important part to Fenris and so she sticks to him.]

If you want to hate him for being a spirit then I can't stop you, but perhaps him being part of why you have Dorian now can be enough to use his name on occasion.

[wolfuncaged]

[Something deeply unpleasant crosses Fenris' face for a moment. It's the sort of look you'd expect he'd get before someone died horribly. He lets out a breath, calms, and his expression settles into one of a more irritated exasperation. ]

So? Justice saved many lives, it travelled with the Hero, did work for her. It did not stop the creature and Anders destroying the Kirkwall chantry, slaughtering hundreds of innocent lives and throwing our world into a civil war- where hundreds more have undoubtedly perished. Just because it has saved some lives does not mean it will not turn.

[His eyes narrow, his shoulders tense. She has overstepped an already fragile boundary. ]

Do not presume you can use Dorian against me. I won't be manipulated. Not by you, not by anyone.

[dawnwillcome]

[Doesn't that sting. The idea that should would ever use Dorian, use anyone, as a bargaining chip makes her feel ill and like she could hit him all at the same time. But neither of those things show, beyond a tightening around her mouth as her lips thin. He's crossed his own boundary now, but she can't even blame him for this. She can't even really stay angry.]

When I leave here and you consider what you've just said, you'll see it's as far from the truth as you could ever be. Cole is Compassion, Fenris, not Justice. His entire existence is to help, not to find retribution for those who are slighted. He isn't possessing a human, more importantly.

[And now she stands, because if he's on the way to hating her she doesn't want to make it worse.]

And before you make your assumptions about his turning, you should know that he begged me to kill him if he ever hurt anyone. I've promised that I will, and the saddest part of all of this is if you were to kill him for being a danger when he truly was, he would thank you.

[wolfuncaged]

[Boy, does he not care about the differentiation. He has seen too much of the arcane, of spirits and demons in Tevinter to know letting his guard around one, treating it as if it were a PERSON would be a foolish move.]

Then I am glad it is aware.

[dawnwillcome]

[She doesn't respond. Up til now, Fenris has always gotten the side of Jove that every single one of her friends gets; sweet, supportive, willing to talk out differences.

But Fenris says it again and something turns off in her eyes. Cole is a person, more now than he had ever been before. He had been losing his fear of becoming attached to people, starting to learn that it didn't always mean they would hate you the moment they found out your true nature.

But Fenris does, and Fenris will never change, and Jove heads for his door without another word.]

[wolfuncaged]

[He doesn't stop her. Perhaps, eventually, he will feel some regret in the way he spoke to her about this. His views on Cole will remain. He needs more time, to conquer this particular fear. ]