#i've been so focused on drawing them that i almost didn't post this tonight 😭

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PROMPT : The Inquisition. DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD ERA. Words: 1008. Characters: Kehda Mercar x Varric Tethras.

For all of his talk about Hawke, Varric never spoke much about the Inquisitor.

Kehda thought that this might be because he harbored some sort of romantic feelings towards her. 

Not that that was always the assumption she made in regards to him and those he kept close to his chest. It took mere moments for her to decide that his relationship with Hawke was purely platonic. He spoke of him freely and often, and he always hoped that the Champion of Kirkwall was far away from the next world-ending threat, canoodling with his pirate rather than stuck in the action.

He spoke of Suri Cadash in passing, but moved on after straying for only a single, fond moment over the subject. No matter how important it might have been to know more about the Inquisitor and her relationship with Solas, they had managed to pry very little about her out of Varric’s mouth. Which was strange for him. 

Kehda was tired of not knowing.

So, perched on the edge of the couch he’d chosen as his roost, she put her own anxieties and her dread aside and asked him, her fretting hands buried into the voluminous folds of her dress.

“Since you don’t talk about things you really care about,” Kehda began.

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