He should be working.
He had been working.
He was still slightly unsure why he no longer was.
He had gone looking for the Inquisitor, needing her signature on a number of papers that had piled up in the weeks she had been gone, and been greeted with empty space at the desk she was supposed to be working at.
So he had searched, the stack of sacks in the attic of the tavern where the boy he could never quite remember liked to frequent, the corner near the fireplace in the main hall where Varric worked, the couch in Solas' office, the chair in Dorian's nook.
All the places she could normally be found were empty, and he had felt his frustration growing even as he started up the flight of stairs to Leliana's Rookery to ask the Spymaster if she had any ideas of where their leader might be.
She obviously did, but instead of simply telling him she had pointed to the door that lead out to the tower's ledge and continued her conversation with her spy.
So he had finally found her, tucked at the far end of the walkway, a blanket around her to ward off the chill of the mountain air, and papers set out in a half circle in front of her like some sort of ineffectual barrier.
She had smiled when he appeared, cutting off his words about things that needed to be done, and voicing an opinion of her own now that he was there with her.
And now he was tucked into the corner of the walkway himself, an elf in his arms and a blanket around them both while the paperwork they both needed to be finishing sat in a hastily stacked pile beside them.
He didn't have time for this. Neither of them did, but that didn't seem to stop his arms from drawing her in closer so that he could rest his chin on her shoulder or his eyes from closing as he breathed in the scent of her… smoke and heat, she often reminded him of a campfire.
"There are things to do."
"Later."
"They shouldn't wait."
He could almost feel her body move against his armor as she laughed and turned her head, her lips ghosting over his cheek before he turned to capture them with his own.
He should be working.
He should.
Later.