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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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And Metella can come and watch her fall asleep for perfectly legitimate reasons.
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When Annie wakes up in the morning, Stalas says, "G'morning. Metella says you don't go to the Fade when you sleep."
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Snuggle. "So that's that. Today I will drop by the Legion and ask them creepy questions about blood, and then update Bhelen on my various plans and see what he says about them."
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"Stay, work on lights, if I need anyone poked I can bring them by the house."
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And Annie goes and makes multirune lights and gets Caridin to tell her what color they are and how bright.
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They are various colours or combinations of colours, and assorted brightnesses. Caridin conscientiously reports on their visible characteristics using as consistent a system as he can come up with under these conditions.
Stalas comes back in late afternoon with a lightly armoured dwarf.
"Hi, Annie! This is Sigrun, she didn't take the healing originally but she's willing to try it along with the weird blood thing."
"Hi," says Sigrun.
"She also doesn't mind if we wait for Dagna and Metella so they can watch and offer advice."
Stalas comes back in late afternoon with a lightly armoured dwarf.
"Hi, Annie! This is Sigrun, she didn't take the healing originally but she's willing to try it along with the weird blood thing."
"Hi," says Sigrun.
"She also doesn't mind if we wait for Dagna and Metella so they can watch and offer advice."
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"Hi, Sigrun. Are they on their way or should I go get them?"
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"I looked for Dagna on the way here but I didn't look very hard; you could go get her while I fetch Metella? I know where the Grey Wardens' guest suite is."
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"Just a minute!"
She fiddles with a fiddly thing for about thirty more seconds and then gets the door.
"Hi, Annie! I have your earrings done, I'm still working on Prince Stalas's. Do you want to see yours? I mean - do you want to look at them - I mean..." She trails off.
She fiddles with a fiddly thing for about thirty more seconds and then gets the door.
"Hi, Annie! I have your earrings done, I'm still working on Prince Stalas's. Do you want to see yours? I mean - do you want to look at them - I mean..." She trails off.
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"You can use visual language, I don't have any good words for my sense and might as well co-opt the ones I'm not using for looking at stuff. And yes, but I'm actually here because there's going to be a lyrium blood experiment and you're invited to watch."
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"Ooh! An experiment! Well - I'll get your earrings, anyway, Prince Stalas won't mind waiting another day for his, right?"
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"Good."
She gets a pair of earrings and presents them to Annie. They're adequately made - pretty impressive for someone who's never made earrings before.
She gets a pair of earrings and presents them to Annie. They're adequately made - pretty impressive for someone who's never made earrings before.
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"Thank you. I'll probably pierce my left ear after the experiment and put one in."
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Annie pockets the earrings and unobtrusively "gazes" at them.
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When they arrive, the incipient experiment has taken over one of the spare rooms. Sigrun is sitting and chatting quietly with Tev while Stalas and Metella discuss the most effective way to accomplish the transfer.