hazmats | Glowfic Constellation

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Stalas also giggles. "Nah, we can get out of your hair, I'm sure you've got lots to do."

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Bhelen smiles. "Yes."

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"See you around, then."

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"Thank you," Annie adds. And she follows Stalas out.

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Bhelen inclines his head respectfully.

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"That went well. I barely had to pretend he was somebody who didn't try to kill you who had cunningly assumed his identity at all," Annie remarks when they are safely out of earshot.

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"I admit that he's made some mistakes, but he's my brother and I love him," says Stalas. "I'm glad you two got along."

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"I can see why you were fine with him being king."

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"Right? He's so good at it."

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"Apart from - not dwelling, not dwelling."

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Stalas laughs and hugs her.

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Hug. "It is not okay for people to try to kill you and they should not ever do it."

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"On the other hand, if I hadn't been exiled to the Deep Roads we would never have met."

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"I might have wandered into Orzammar eventually, although I'm sure I'd have been in worse shape... buuuut you wouldn't have been the first person I saw. If that's even how it works."

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"And the first approximately personlike creature you saw would almost certainly have been a darkspawn. Wow, that's an appallingly awful thought on several levels."

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"...I hope that wouldn't have worked, I've been assuming they wouldn't count."

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"I hope it wouldn't have worked too!"

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Hug. "As long as six artifacts had to fall on me I'm glad the next person I saw was you."

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Hug. "Is it vain of me to also be glad of that?"

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"No." Snugglehug.

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"Good, I'm glad we got that sorted out. Anyway, do I hear the sounds of my room being repaired?"

He does. That is totally his room being repaired, down the hall from Bhelen's.

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"You're right down the hall from Bhelen?"

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"Yes."

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"Let's hope Bhelen's insightful enough to have already started making preparations to move to the royal suite, because I don't especially want to go suggest it, particularly not while Rica is in the room with him."

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"Yeah, maybe I should delay moving in. I mean, under the best of circumstances my sense is weird and awkward, in a few months I'll probably be able to tell Rica if it's a boy or a girl, but there's weird and awkward and then there's..." Handwave.

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