( to some few, gervais may be a familiar face; a fixture in the white spire from a young age, his research and occasional loan out as a healer took him throughout orlais over the years, other circles, other cities. he'd been on such an expedition with templars averie and werner when the spire had been annulled; none had ever resurfaced.

or, rather, til now.

gervais does not announce himself, though he perhaps should. he joins the other healers at the tents - his experience proves useful for the refugee women expecting children. and, quieter, those women who would...prefer not to be expecting children, in the current climate. he is steady and kind and asks only the questions necessary, works hard and patient, and

occasionally

very occasionally

inquires after the templar presence. were any of them at the spire? just wondering. other musings include taking the temperature of the mood in response to lady vauquelin's newsletter, and if other mages make plans for the end of all this. )