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"Then sure. Why not."

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"I'm joining too. The arl's son interrupted the wedding to kidnap me, the other bride, Shianni, and two other women, with the intent to rape us, and joining the Grey Wardens is a good way to not hang for the number of guards I had to kill to make that not happen."

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"Oh - Maker, I'm sorry - are you all okay?"

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"They're kind of shaken, but--no one succeeded in--they'll be okay. I got knocked unconscious for a bit, that's the worst of it."

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"Oh good." He finally looks at Elissa and Duncan. "I guess you're a Warden?" he says to Duncan.

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"Indeed," says Duncan.

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"How about you?" he says to Elissa.

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"I'm Elissa. Travelling with Warden Duncan. Helping out here and there along the way."

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"Great. Nice to meet you."

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"She's a shem and I like her, it's so weird. And. It'll be nice to not be leaving everyone behind."

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"...Yeah."

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"Worth it. And I can always come back later, at least to visit, if I survive. So. ...Do you need time to pack or anything, you were the last person I thought I needed to say goodbye to."

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"Somehow I don't think my clothes fit me anymore, and the blood mages stole my shoes," he says. "I'll go shove my drawing stuff in a bag and then we can go."

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She nods.

"In addition to feeding you, the Grey Wardens will also clothe and arm you," Duncan adds.

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"Even better!"

He walks away and comes back a minute later with a bag slung over his shoulder, the blue shield still on his arm.

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When they actually walk through the gates of the alienage, Acara turns around to take one last look back. And then she turns back and walks unhesitatingly away.

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They don't leave the city itself immediately, of course. They need to get Tev his food and clothing and the both of them a decent set of armor and so on.

Clothing first. Duncan doesn't take long to find a decent-quality tailor.

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Having someone buy him clothes, new clothes, that actually fit him, is a deeply weird experience. But it's also undeniably pretty nice.

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Well, when it is over, he will have a sensible number and quality of clothes.

And then food. Eating at the kind of restaurant you can get a seat at when one is the Warden-Commander of the Grey Wardens in Ferelden and/or a Teyrna is probably also deeply weird.

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It is so weird. But also utterly amazing.

The new Tev can put away a lot of food. He was right to be worried that if he stayed in the alienage he wouldn't get enough to eat.

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Acara is also impressed with the quality of the food, although she does a better job of hiding it and also eats only a normal-elf reasonable amount.

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And then to an armory. The elves are certainly welcome to keep their looted weapons, but they'll both probably want armor and Acara can probably get something a little better than the iron longswords the guards had and Tev might want some kind of not-a-shield weapon.

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Tev has no idea what kind of weapon would suit his new stature. A sword maybe? Like a big sword? He won't know how to use it, but then, he also won't know how to use anything else he could possibly pick, so.

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Tev can have a greatsword, sure. They're going to have to alter the hilt if he wants to wield it one-handed but they can do that.

Acara will take a nice longsword and dagger in something a little nicer than just plain iron. And a set of studded leather armor, nice and easy to move around in.

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Tev picks some reasonable-looking armour and a greatsword whose hilt seems manageable for occasional one-handed use; he doesn't want to have it altered because he expects to be using two hands at least some of the time.

He's not nearly as excited about sword shopping as Acara, but it is a little bit fun.

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