Be Gentle with Me

Rene made all sorts of good points, but despite Mica getting on in years from her pre-child days, she was still just as willful and stubborn as she had always been. Now the whole going off after Addy was something for her to latch on to and focus on. Perhaps it was a bit less about finding Addy and a bit more about putting her own grief on the back burner while she looked.

If she was busy looking for Addy, under the guise of not wanting anything bad to happen to her niece, than she didn’t have time to properly grieve Frankie and Alfred. Truth be told, if she wasn’t focused on Addy, she’d probably turn her focus to Eularia, and that was also a recipe for disaster. She shook herself out of her thoughts, she wasn’t entirely leadless. The princess had been spotted, if she could find a certain Zevran Arainai, perhaps she could find Addy.

I have a sort of lead. She’s been seen with someone. I don’t know this person directly or personally, but Maeve knows them well so I plan to talk to her before I go. Of course she know of Zevran Arainai, he was notorious in Antiva, as well as being someone that had aided the Hero of Ferelden end the Fifth Blight in Ferelden all those years earlier, but she personally hadn’t had occasion to get to know the elf on a personal level, not enough to know where the man might be spending his time.

As the drink was offered, there was a slight hesitation. Normally she might say something about Rene’s drinking, but today was stressful and her grief was raw. Nope, on this occasion she was more than happy to push those thoughts aside and just join him in a drink.

Well, you know what they say, ‘After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.’ She paused and then realised she hadn’t actually answered the question. Yes, one glass will suffice. I’d really like to see things the way I wish they were right now. Even if but for a moment. She wanted Frankie alive again, and Alfred and if that couldn’t happen she wanted Addy safe and Eularia punished, also things she wasn’t sure if they would ever happen.