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[The video feed kicks in to show a view of the level 3 barracks corridor. Vie walks along, pausing to share both charred brickwork and burnt doors as she goes. It's not every door that's been marked, just a few here and there.]

Have any of you a clue as to just... what is going on here?

[She turns the video to herself, a flaming torch on the wall behind her idly flickering before flaring violently. It's over as quickly as it starts. Vie turns to face it, but finds nothing.]

I'm not sure what to make of any of this.

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It says nothing but danger to me.

[She sounds mildly concerned.]

I agree. This is certainly worrying.

Have you seen or heard anything?

Besides the gardens being burnt to ashes and the same lack of staff, no.

The gardens, really?

[She hasn't really been outside much today. Unless you count the roof.]

All of them?

All the flowers are dead.

[She planted some of those for Gertie, too.]

And what of the staff? Who is missing?

The healer, the woman who cares for the dogs, and the librarian. And someone else, I believe.

That's at least half of them then, or thereabout.

[Vie doesn't like any of this. What do they know that she doesn't?]

Are you alright?

I am not a fan of scenarios where fire may be an issue.

[Hawke has been at her side almost constantly since his not so grand return to the keep. Seeing how long he was gone, there's a lot of lost time that he needs to make for. Although he can think of several better ways to make up for it than this.

When the torch flares he eyes it suspiciously while his hand hovers close to one of his daggers.]

I do. It's something weird and almost certainly unfriendly.

[Vie might be more with him on those other ideas but the light and the thudding on the door and the way the fire moves at random is just bugging her.

She glances to him, her own daggers at her waist.]

But what does it want? I've not seen anything in the day. Only ever at night.

[Being interrupted by lights flaring and the door slamming is a very good way to kill the mood, and Hawke doesn't like being interrupted during their recreational activities.

Hawke can only shrug.]

Maybe it's looking to dry its throat with a glass of water.

Then it can do so a little more quietly.

[She smirks at him.]

[Instantly the frown is gone, replaced with an amused grin.]

If it did then I would be a very thankful man.

[Vie reaches to touch his arm as she walks, affectionate of the man at her side.]

Mimmi said the gardens were destroyed. I want to see for myself. As well as if there's a limit to how far the damage goes.

[As she does he steps a little closer and hooks an arm around her. He's feeling a touch more protective her than usual. In fact he's feeling a lot of things after his death.]

By the Maker, does this thing's evil know no bounds?

Hideous, isn't it? I don't know how it can stand to do such horrific things.

[She leans against him, small smile at her lips. Serious as the situation is, Vie loves joking around with Hawke. It takes the edge of things.]

Its heart must be as black as coal to be capable of this.

[When she smiles so does he. Unlike many, Hawke isn't quite as bothered by this. This is his everyday life in Kirkwall. Right now he's just enjoying being with Vie.]

Pray that the chickens remain unscathed.

[It's been good to have him back. Vie's glad that for all her wanting to cling to him since his return, Hawke's been pretty much the same in regards to her. What went on during Hawke's adventure has scared her somewhat.]

...Maybe it's the moose.

Or that whoever did this had the decency to take them out of their sweaters first.

[More than a few thoughts are running through his head after his death and return, mostly in regards to them. He knows that one day they'll have to part for a time, so until then he won't waste a moment with her. Maybe it's time they make everything official.]

If that beast is setting flame to everything then we're all doomed.

That will be the next discovery. Charred remains of a dozen chickens, their soot covered sweaters neatly folded and set aside.

[As far as she sees it, they've been married for some time. Vie could do without a ceremony even. She's already told him; she's his.]

In this place, I wouldn't be surprised.

Carver might enjoy that actually.

[This he knows, but it's his way of showing her just how much she means to him. He left when he should have stayed simply because that's what he does. Things need to change and he has to remind himself he's not alone anymore.

Plus they haven't gotten a honeymoon yet.]

If that's what it turns out to be I suggest we turn around and head back to our room.

be careful, what ever iit ii2 can't po22iibly be good.

*He takes a couple moments to replay her video and study that flickering torch.*

the 2corch mark2 are on the maiin door2...but ii don't know iif 2omethiing want2 OUT or iif 2omethiing got IIN.

Edited (derp, had to recheck things and i was wrong) 2012-09-02 13:49 (UTC)

It's more a bother than anything, for the moment. Have you had anything strange happen, Sollux?

[His second comment earns a pause.]

Now that is worrying.

2omeone--no, 2omeTHIING triied two get iintwo my room whiile ii wa2 out.

I've no idea either. I can't sense anything that would cause something like this.

[Nothing magical, anyway.]

I was hoping someone might know something, or to of seen or heard of something similar in the past. No one seems to know.

[It's worrying.]

Have you had anything happen, Anders? Last night it was trying to get into mine and Hawke's room. We searched the hall after and found nothing but burns.

That doesn't seem to be terribly unusual, in this place.

[It's probably sad he's so accepting of it.]

I haven't seen anything. Not yet. Whatever it is, it doesn't completely make rounds of the barracks... Did you send the dog after it, by chance?

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