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[priorly]

What's that poem about how the world ends? Fire, or ice.

Funny, really, we've been at the sharp end of both in recent weeks and here we all are, still muddling along, impossible to destroy. Like cockroaches, or Twinkies. Well. Most of us, anyway.

But it seems to me that ice is more a paralytic than an ending. Perhaps a precursor to slow cessation. A numbing, which - left long enough - allows one not to even notice as all the more vital components gradually freeze. Stasis, an ending without closure. They're the worst kind, I think.

But don't mind maudlin old me. I haven't been sleeping well.

At any rate. If you knew Byerly or Dorian -

Well, lucky you. They're gone now. Stasis. I thought some people might like to know and it turns out to be torture to have to say it over and over.

And it's colder here than I anticipated.

That's all.

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[dirthena]

He will miss them. He wasn't a man who let himself make friends easily, no matter what he claimed.

( sorry dorian she's outing your SOFT SQUISHY INNNER SELF whether you want it or not since you're not here to defend yourself. )

Honestly, I'm not surprised. It seems to be the way my life is going these days. Still, any friend of his is someone I'd like to know.

[priorly]

[Dorian bough Prior a magical teddy bear and held him all night. Prior's aware of the soft squishy side.

He's probably going to miss that the most.]

Oh, well, likewise. Although some of his friends sounded

Um.

You aren't a giant bull, are you?

[dirthena]

( that gets a laugh from her, although he has no way of knowing it. )

So he mentioned Iron Bull, did he? No, I'm not him -- I'm far shorter and with less horns. Although, come to think of it, the qunari and my race do share pointed ears.

[priorly]

Well that sounds decidedly less terrifying.

Does that make you... some sort of cat person? The iron cat? Or an elf?

[dirthena]

I don't think "terrifying" has ever been a word applied to me by anyone other than those afraid I'll destroy their entire religion. But Bull is very good at making the look work for him, although he's anything but once you get to know him.

An elf, actually.