Prompt: Money Management
Originally Written: 1/11/11
Notes: Any and all comments on my extended absence will be...noted. A lot of real life upheaval and then I played Mass Effect, but I was reading through the DA ficlets I hadn't posted and decided they were worth putting out there.
This is another Quark prompt! Also, the Aeducan opening is possibly my favorite in the entire game. I have a massive Aeducan/Brosca friendfic plotted that will probably sadly never see the light of day, but oh are the dwarves a lot of fun.
"Darin-"
"No."
"But Darin-"
"I said no, Alistair."
"But Darin," he said, giving a look that was probably pleading and puppyish at close range but just looked like a starving nug from her perspective, gesturing dramatically at the stand, "he's offering a discount."
She had to strain her neck to see her fellow Warden; looking at the dwarf standing across from her, meeting his blue gaze without emotion-these actions were effortless, as familiar as taking a breath. The pain, too, was familiar, though cut deeper and with a different blade, as if severing her last whispering hope of home.
"No," she said, and then, because she was born for courtesy, "thank you," and then, because she was bred to twist the knife, "ser knight."
He flinched and she turned away. "Come, Alistair," she said, noting how easily the human fell into a second's position, "I believe we shall be spending our coin elsewhere."