Kaitrith fidgeted as she walked into Josephine's office, hands clutching a small, woven bracelet in them. Was it too soon to give gifts? It wasn't, was it? She'd tried to ask Krem about it—he was one of the few humans she got along with aside from Josephine, after all—but he'd been so…

Willing to make it a group effort.

She'd gone to him specifically to find out if it was rude or presumptuous or clingy to give gifts so early in a relationship—she and Josie had only spared a few times for quiet kisses in the gardens thus far, and she didn't want to scare her dear ambassador off.

She'd gone to him, and he'd tried to make it something for all of the Chargers to weigh in on, saying something about different cultures in different countries and…

In the end, while Grim had mumbled something nigh inaudible that Dalish had said was adorable, Kaitrith had just figured she was better off trying things her own way. If it was rude, hopefully Josie would excuse her for not knowing.

When she finally tore her gaze away from the bracelet—it looked alright, didn't it?—she saw that Josephine was seated at her desk, as usual, busily working on something that was no doubt important. The light coming through the window beside her desk made her hair and skin gleam as though she were the one blessed by some God.

It would have been more fitting if she was.

Though…Kaitrith didn't like the thought of Josephine going out to fight demons as she did. The woman was not one for a weapon, other than her pen, and even if she had been, Kaitrith wouldn't have wished the mark on anyone else.

Not even the noble bastards who pissed her off on a daily basis.

Stepping lithely across the room, Kaitrith stopped when she was beside Josephine, gaze wandering across her desk without reading anything in particular. "Busy day?"

"I am afraid so," Josephine murmured, though even as she said it, she set her quill in the ink well and leaned back in her chair. With a delicate rub of her eyes, she smiled up at Kaitrith. "And you? Are you enjoying the few days you have before you leave again?"

At that, Kaitrith shrugged. Part of her wanted to say she'd enjoy them more if she could steal Josephine from her job more often, but then that might not sound as romantic as she wanted it to. "Marian seems to think that there's a lead worth following in the west, so I almost wish we would just go now." She paused before adding quickly, "I'll miss you. But…"

"The sooner you go, the sooner you can return home?" Josephine offered, that brilliant smile of hers still in place.

Even as Kaitrith nodded, she nearly froze. When she'd left to go to the Conclave, she'd never thought that she'd consider any place other than with her clan to be home, yet here she was, more concerned with making it back to Skyhold to see Josephine than she was with ever seeing her keeper or clan Lavellan ever again.

Part of her suddenly felt guilty.

Wanting to banish that awful line of thinking from her head—it wasn't fair to feel guilty about something like that just because she was happy—she awkwardly shoved her hands forward. "I made you a bracelet."

Josephine blinked, eyes wide. "You what?"

Was this wrong? Kaitrith felt like she'd stumbled into something she didn't understand, but managed to keep her voice even as she shrugged again. "It's not…a huge thing. No cultural meaning, really. Just…I made it, and I thought you might want it."

Well, if that hadn't been the most moronic way to give a gift… 'It has no meaning, but you can have it'?

Had Kaitrith been an on-looker, she'd have probably cringed on the poor bastard's behalf.

Josephine, however, carefully took the bracelet and turned in carefully in her hands. There wasn't much to see, really. It was dried reeds woven together in a short band, and Kaitrith abruptly realized it probably wouldn't match anything that Josephine owned.

Even as she tried to think of how to take it back, Josephine slipped it around her wrist and then held her hand out. "Will you help me tie it?"

Her reaction was almost mechanical. As she quickly did the knot, Josephine tilted her head, inspecting it, curious. "You know, I think I've seen this sort of style before, though I can't quite remember where."

"Baskets." Kaitrith frowned at her own awkward explanation. "We make baskets, sometimes. You weave a bunch of these and then thread them together or…I never got passed this part."

"Well, at least there is some good from that, yes?" Josephine held her hand up, so that the bracelet was in plain view. "After all, the world would not be so pretty a place without this."

Kaitrith's felt her ears burning as a slight smile tugged her lips up briefly. "I'm glad you like it."