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Here’s a lil something from Chapter 3 of Old Familiar Ways.
Rough! Words I want to change later are marked in []s. 💕
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"Can't tell you." Thea's unsure when this ritual began.
First memory of it was when she had just graduated from law school and the two of them were stumbling out of the bar, leaving their friends to continue the drinking game they'd made up that evening and would forget by day's light. Solas hadn't been in school for years by that point, but people rarely batted an eye at the sight of him among equally mature university students. The same didn't matter to her immediate circle of friends, who found his [opposition] to small talk off putting. Thea had convinced him to come out that evening in exchange for a visit to the war museum with him. (She'd find a way out of it when time came—something cliche about how the remnants of that war has made a museum of their world, and really, she'd fulfilled her promise by walking it with him.) He hadn't admitted it, would never, but Solas wore a half grin that evening that betrayed certain merriment in talking to the Bull and even Dorian for most of the night while she was anywhere but beside him. Thea had a cigarette held between her teeth, bad call for the chilly eve and the dress she had on making her teeth chatter. She couldn't get her lighter to flick on. Solas, all smiles, stopped before her and clapped his hands (his were cold too) around hers and said, make a wish. She was just as, if not quicker to irritability then and Solas, in their three years together, hadn't indicated he was at all troubled by this aspect of her. She'd snapped back, for this fucking lighter to work, bending the cigarette with her teeth, then cursing again. Solas had freed her hands of the lighter so she used them to try and straighten the crease. His whispered phrase caught her eye—something old sounding, like words from the [musty] books he liked to read to her. Thea blamed the drink for not immediately spotting his hidden finger holding the light on.
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