No bad vibes

Lyric nodded at the question about being a Starky mage. Funny thing that though, had her parents not been a pair of stuck up Orlesian bitches, she probably would have gone to one of the Orlais Circles. Instead her parents paid the Templars handsomely to send Lyric further away where she wouldn’t embarrass her parents by having a mage in the family.

She was about to say something, as her brain raced, but then Aoife continued and told her about being from Kirkwall. Lyric couldn’t help but giggle at the comment about sneaking her sister romance novels. Although Lyric didn’t read as much as she’d like to, she’d definitely read her fair share of romance novels.

There’s this author from, Kirkwall? I think? That I really like, but I haven’t read all his stuff. Then when Aoife made the comment about the Circles being different now, Lyric nodded understandingly. There were certainly a lot of people actively on both sides, mages and non-mages, who wanted things to be different, that recognised how broken things were before the rebellion, but there were also people who wanted things to just go back to how they were back then and that sometimes worried Lyric.

I’m hopeful, I mean I’m not naive either. I know there are people out there that want nothing more than to see things just as they were before and that there are some on the other extreme, that think Circles shouldn’t even be a thing. I just feel like, at the end of the day mages need a safe space to learn and grow their magic. She shrugged, then looked clearly relived when Aoife said not to worry about her wandering through the Palace.

As she thought about what to say next, Aria gurgled and tried to move towards Aoife, stumbling a bit as she walked. Lyric watched, read reach out and steady the child if need be. Then when Aoife brought up a snack and using Aoife to practise on as far as what Lyric had been there to discuss with the Prince, she positively beamed. In fact if she were standing right now, she probably would have pulled Aoife into a bear hug.

OH MY THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!! I didn’t even realise I was hungry until the smells from the kitchen were wafting out, and I’d love to run it by you first. This seemed arguably less frightening, but also not the same as having run it by Akibrus and Ronan back home, since they were people she was intimately comfortable with so it wasn’t at all like talking to the freaking prince of Starkhaven. Just then Aria started to stumble a bit, so Lyric pulled herself up and then reached a hand down to little Aria, who was still quite enamoured with Aoife.