A very sheepishly looking Inquisitor joined the rest of the group for breakfast within the great hall. Firstly she busied herself with rearranging her food on her plate, all eyes were on her she could feel every individual pair. Not one sound was made in what seemed forever, taking a deep breath before clearing her throat she brushed a few strands of hair before placing an awkward smile on her face, "Morning" she awkwardly chuckled whilst turning her attention back to her food.
It seemed to take them a number of seconds to register that she was actually sitting there in the flesh and that she had indeed spoken, "Morning Inquisitor." Cassandra spoke breaking the deadly silence in the room.
"Good Morning."
"Good Morning Inquisitor."
"Morning."
A round of 'morning's' followed from every direction, Tama nodding to each one she received, however she did not take her eyes from her food. After a few moments she was just about to sigh in relief when the interrogation began and it was all thanks to Cole.
"Why is there a hole in the wall?" an innocent query seemed to bounce of the walls around them, Tama immediately looked up and noticed he was questioning Varric.
"Why don't you ask Curly?." he motioned with his head to the Commander who sat a few seats down from them both. Tama was silently cursing in her head, 'oh that little shit' he knew exactly what he was doing.
"Cullen. Why is there a hole in the wall?" Cole asked again this time looking to the Commander who was sitting back drinking from his goblet with interest.
"Bull. Why is there a hole in the wall?" Cullen queried, she could see him smirking into his goblet, 'traitor you over stuffed lion' she thought sending him a glare when her attention was brought to the other side of the table.
"Why is there a hole in the wall?" Bull shrugged before sending a wink to Tama who groaned and placed her head on the table a little harder than she wanted.
"Let me be swallowed up by the fade. Please anyone …. just swallow me up… pretty please."
"Inquisitor are you alright?" Josephine queried placing a concerned hand on Tama' shoulder.
Tama was still muttering to herself…something about the fade swallowing her up, it could not be made out quite clearly as her forehead was still lying on the table.
"Yeah! Why is there a giant stinking hole in the wall?" Sera piped up leaning back in her chair.
"What are you on about?" Cassandra queried looking at each of them, all their eyes not meeting hers' … scowling Cassandra turned to Varric, 'what had they done now?' she thought to herself.
"Seeker go look to the tavern." Varric was having a hard time stopping himself from laughing, "Go on indulge me for a moment." he carried on seeing the Seeker get up and begin walking to the large door.
Cassandra's footsteps could be heard clearly throughout the hall as they made their way to the large doors at the end. Tama could only cover her head with her arms and groan again … this was it … she was going to kill them all. She could hear the concealed snickering of both Varric and Cullen, and she did not have to look to know Bull was sitting back enjoying her predicament once again.
All was silent again until …
"TAMA!" Cassandra's voice cried out from the doorway, "What did you do!?" she shouted walking back up to the table.
"Well … there was…" Come on brain think of something … come one aha! Got it! "Well there was this huge rat thing, well it was more the size of a dog." she held up her hands showing roughly a huge dog shape in the air, "It was running around all crazy, foaming at the mouth Cassandra, foaming. at. the. mouth."
The whole hall erupted in laughter, Varric fell off his chair and was holding his stomach. Cullen had spat his wine everywhere and was busy wiping away the tears which were in his eyes. Bull was doubled over laughing as well.
"A giant dog like rat?" Cassandra questioned … raising an eyebrow at Tama.
"Foaming at the mouth." Tama interjected.
This time it seemed everyone was laughing, even louder Tama could not help but glance around and glare. So much for comradeship she thought to herself, trying to avoid Cassandra's gaze.
The Seeker groaned, holding her fingers to her temple she shifted her weight from one foot to another, ignoring the laughing hyenas at the sides of the table. The laughter died down eventually, with the odd chuckle being heard every so often. Cassandra once again sat down in her seat not taking her eyes off Tama. It was only a matter of time she thought to herself as she continued to stare. She had discovered the Inquisitor did not like being looked at and there it was the tell tale sign of the awkward shuffle she had her, Rat dog andraste's ass she thought to herself.
"Fine." Tama huffed looking to the ceiling she muttered quietly, "Was a templar thing…"
"Excuse me." The Seeker leant forward in her seat. "Can you repeat … more loudly."
"Maybe there is a possibility, you know a chance, or there was a moment in time when, you know last night, or could've been another day and you haven't notice, you know being busy with all Seeker things and training .."
"Tama. Muttering again, stop it!" Cassandra growled.
"Ok." Tama looked at her then, holding her hands up innocently, "I might have thrown a templar out of the wall."
"Maker's Breath Tama." Cassandra groaned pinching her temple in frustration.
"So that is how they were flying." Cole shouted looking pleased with himself, Varric chuckled placing a hand on the kids' shoulder.
"Oh indeed they did fly." Varric smiled holding his goblet up to Tama, who once again had placed her head on the table in defeat.
Swallow me up fade. Just end it now.
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