( Why, good lady, she has two swords. Starkhaveners like to be prepared. Also, Herian believes in overkill. She makes no move to draw either her sword, or to brandish the hilt of her Spirit Blade. She just frowns, because—
because the request is absurd, and the Director of Visual Record (odd title, but she's been away from the Inquisition a while, and they were always odd) is very polite.
Herian had never been especially good at wrangling nobility, and she assumed this person was the third-fourth-fifth born something-something of somewhere longwinded, significant in their relevant insignificance. Still, the wealthy or noble people she knew were either mages or sworn to the Chantry, and while they certainly liked to talk and get their way, usually the reality was they did not have nearly the influence they believed themselves to possess. )
Duty must be set before glorification in the eyes of history. I am sorry, Madam Director; my orders are clear.
( The directions she was given, however, rather less so, and she looks up through the maze of Kirkwall... and realises her problem. ) Which was to the Inquisition?
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because the request is absurd, and the Director of Visual Record (odd title, but she's been away from the Inquisition a while, and they were always odd) is very polite.
Herian had never been especially good at wrangling nobility, and she assumed this person was the third-fourth-fifth born something-something of somewhere longwinded, significant in their relevant insignificance. Still, the wealthy or noble people she knew were either mages or sworn to the Chantry, and while they certainly liked to talk and get their way, usually the reality was they did not have nearly the influence they believed themselves to possess. )
Duty must be set before glorification in the eyes of history. I am sorry, Madam Director; my orders are clear.
( The directions she was given, however, rather less so, and she looks up through the maze of Kirkwall... and realises her problem. ) Which was to the Inquisition?