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[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

Characters: Fenris (freewolfmoon) and OPEN.
Setting: Earlier today in and around room 2-04 in the dormitories.
Format: Whichever!
Summary: Fenris wakes up after arriving. He isn't happy.
Warnings: Nothing so far.

He doesn't know how long he sits awkwardly curled on the bed, his fingers curled around the collar on his neck, emotion he still, after all this time, doesn't understand how to deal with running high through him. It's an effort to read the letter: part of him is insisting he should forget he even knows how to read in the first place, accept the return of his old fate. The past nine years were a pleasant dream, but they're over. Hawke isn't here to defend him. He should...

He shouldn't be thinking that way. He knows better, now.

Fenris reads the letter, checks the trunk at the foot of the bed (his armor, good; this joke of a sword, not even four feet long, that he was either going to sell or give to Aveline for a laugh, not good), and grimly strips out of the strange white thing to change into his rediscovered armor. Then he slams open the door and strides out into the hallway.

His voice, raised not quite to a yell, echoes with level, seething calm down the halls. "You collar me and ask me to be happy. The days when I would have obeyed you are long over."

He lifts the sword, and when he speaks again, some of the calm is starting to seep out of his voice. "Vishante kaffar. Come at me and fight, if you wish to take me!"

Comments

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

[ Yikes. Pointy sword. Do not want. ]

This is deeeefinitely not the droid you're looking for.

I come in peace.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[ He pauses at the sight of the collar on her neck, then lowers the sword. ]

You've little choice but to come in peace. They've taken you as well.

[ But there's something about what she said that bothers him... ]

"Droid"?

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

It's a pop culture reference. Don't worry about it.

I'm Stephanie Brown, but you can call me Steph.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[He looks suitably baffled.]

Culture that goes pop...? No, I won't ask.

[He gives a slight nod.]

Fenris. How is it that we walk freely and have weapons, if we are at the mercy of our captors here?

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

Our captors are weird. I kinda get the feeling that we're test subjects.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

Not slaves.

[His voice is almost steady, but he can't quite keep a tremor of mingled fear and anger out of it.]

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. This place has a few rules, but I haven't been forced to do anything.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[A certain amount of the tension goes out of Fenris's stance; he's trying to hide it, but it's pretty obvious that a huge weight just lifted off him right there.]

The work of rogue blood mages, then, seeking victims for their studies?

[He sounds calm now, if displeased.]

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

Er...

[What did you even just say]

I...maybe?

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[...sigh.]

You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

Nooooone at all.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[He's frowning now, but thoughtfully rather than angrily.]

Perhaps there is truth to their words.

Tell me, Steph. What do you know of Thedas?

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

Noooooothing?

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

You're truly from a different world than I, then.

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

I think so.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[A shake of his head.]

This is a strangeness I know nothing of.

[He lowers his gaze.]

I cannot believe my world is destroyed. If nothing else, Hawke wouldn't allow it.

[thefourthtry.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Uh, as a point of interest, most people think we were kidnapped, and are being lied to.

The whole world destroyed thing doesn't really add up.

[freewolfmoon.livejournal.com]

[He touches the collar.]

Kidnapped. I can't imagine how you came to that conclusion.

And no. It doesn't. Unless...

[Suddenly he's scowling lightly.]

I wouldn't be surprised if this were what the mage uprisings have led to.