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DA Kiss Week! - Day 4 (Exploration)

Fourth up for DA Kiss Week (@dragonagekissweek) is "Exploration," with my Rook, Saadrah Mercar, and Lucanis (and Spite).

Potential trigger warning for claustrophobia. I made myself tense writing this, so best to warn other people just in case.

Space Enough for Breath

Seven kisses, seven pairs, not all of them good ideas.

Rating: T

Missed the earlier parts? Day 1 (Camp) | Day 2 (Injury) | Day 3 (Courtyard) Read the whole thing on AO3

Day 4: Exploration (Saadrah/Lucanis — a comforting kiss)

(Set a few days to a few weeks after the final fight of Veilguard.)

Saadrah groaned as consciousness returned slowly. Sputtering. Achy. Smelling of rock dust and sea brine and blood both old and new. A cough fought its way out of her dry throat, but it came flat and tight, like a fist clutched around her ribs, and barely cleared the wheeze out of her airway.

And dark. Everything around her was so dark.

Where was she?

Limbs didn’t want to respond at first. Bruised, pinned, she wasn’t sure. Hoped it was the former. Tried not to think about it. She tried to rest, take a breather for a moment, and get her bearings.

Minrathous. She was definitely still in Minrathous. The sea didn’t quite smell the same in Treviso or Rivain. There was a particular fishy odor to it, and something a little electric, that was unique to the capital of the Imperium.

She’d been exploring. Right. With her team. Searching on behalf of the Shadow Dragons for people caught in the mess of the city that Elgar’nan had made. For straggling Venatori and other conspirators. Trying to find new routes around fresh devastation and dying Blight tendrils. Putting her knowledge of the city and her knack for climbing around it in the oddest ways to use.

Then a careless step. She’d put her foot through a weakened board. Too much pressure on a floor supported only by desiccated Blight.

A very long fall.

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Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in Blue Towelling Robe No. 1, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Wow! Here we are again: Friday! Where did that week go? No, seriously, where did that week go?

Tennis star Naomi Osaka turned down a lucrative Coca Cola deal for a lesser known brand called Body Armor. She now owns equity in Coca Cola after the company purchased Body Armor for $5.6 billion.

Earlier on in the week, when it was REALLY hot, some people were stuck on a crowded Underground train for about two hours because someone was “trespassing” on the line! NO! That protocol is WRONG! I understand that it’s a ‘safety’ measure but what about the safety of the passengers? How many people on that train were claustrophobic? How many people on there were physically unwell, mentally unwell, disabled or pregnant? That experience has traumatised some people and they may NEVER get over it! Edge the train forward (5 mph) to the next station and let people get off!

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised but we now have A.I. writing novels! Will you be able to tell the difference? I can 200% promise you that my novels (and my non-fiction) come directly from my beautiful, dark, twisted brain!

Hope you can join me tomorrow at 1.00 p.m. for ‘The A-Z Of Mi-Soul Music’. Just before we start The Letter M, we have two artist ‘A-Z’ shows. Tomorrow is a brilliant singer-songwriter named Louise Golbey. The 20 songs that have shaped her sound and career. Next week: one of the founding members of The Cool Notes, Heather Haywood, and I've now confirmed Gina Sedman for late October.

On Sunday, we will be at ‘Rock At The Castle’, a FREE family festival in Hertford Castle, raising money for Home Start Hertfordshire, an award-winning local charity that provides volunteer-led emotional and practical support to families with young children across the county. There are three stages of music. I’ll be spinning big choons on my stage!

Have a fabulous and funky Friday! I love you all.

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Every single contestant on the latest Game Changer episode is braver than me because if I was confronted with a dimly lit room full of like 30 white men all looking in different directions I would never walk in there omg.

#game changer #scary #claustrophobia #dropout tv

I occasionally have claustrophobia nightmares where I'm stuck in a place, unable to move. I've always found claustrophobia interesting, because like a lot of fears, it's deep-seated, with the rational understanding of why I should be wary of tight spaces (e.g. getting stuck, suffocating) coming after the fear itself. There's an animal instinct there which just does not come up in day-to-day life, since I'm never going into caves, burrowing into holes, or strapping myself in a straightjacket.

I also find claustrophobia interesting because it seems like much more of a problem now than in the ancestral environment. People have built all kinds of things to get themselves trapped inside, and we build with materials that are a hundred times stronger and heavier than anything the human body can deal with. There's a video of a man who got trapped in an elevator for 41 hours after going out for a cigarette break and getting stuck right at the end of a Friday, when the whole office building emptied out for the weekend. And yeah, what do you do? Ideally your elevator has some kind of emergency button, or you can force the doors open, or something, but you're really depending on proper design and safety standards.

I've always been a little bit leery of those heavy concrete stairwells with the thick metal doors, because it seems like it would be easy for those doors to lock you inside until someone finds you. I don't think it would trigger the claustrophobia, since it's at least a tomb you can walk around inside, but it's the sort of thing our monkey ancestors would just never have to have dealt with.

The claustrophobia nightmare I had last night was bad enough to wake me up, and then I couldn't get back to sleep, because it was one of those things that was still scary to think about instead of deflating. I'd been crawling up a metal tube that was not quite wide enough for me, so that my hips were pressed against the sides of it and my arms and legs couldn't fully move. Nightmares are pretty much the only place that claustrophobia shows up for me, maybe every few months. In this case, it happened as part of navigating public transit in an unknown city, which for some reason had everyone climb this narrow tube to get from one level of the platform to another.

The last time I can remember the freak out feeling building up from being in too small of a space was when I went to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. I'm fairly sure that it was never built to have people climb to the very top of it, and it seems like a health and safety nightmare, mostly because of how narrow some of those passages are, and how difficult it would be to get back down. There was one particular stretch of it where I had people ahead of me, people behind me, and had to stoop down to not hit my head on a beam, both shoulders with what felt like an inch of clearance, and I kept thinking "wow, this is fucked". I settled down once I was at the top, because there was a wide view of the city and a sense of freedom, even if it was an illusion.

The kinds of people who go caving are crazy to me. Maybe if you can stand up with plenty of clearance it's fine, but drawing in a breath to squeeze through hard rock seems like exactly the sort of thing that a claustrophobia instinct is there to stop you from doing.

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