Sunday Sentences/Scribbles ;)
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Here’s some more modernish/futurish AU (I swear I’m SO CLOSE to being done with the “funeral home meet-cute” prompt part of this, but now I’ve got a whole fic planned and I keep getting distracted writing backstory)...
“Come in. I assure you I don’t bite,” the old woman chuckled, and Alistair could’ve sworn her golden eyes blinked sideways. “Though I suppose that’s what a Sprawler would say, if they could speak or were intellectually capable of such a ruse.”
“Er...thank you?” Alistair stammered.
“What brings you to us in the middle of a Plague? Death records? Genealogical curiosity?” She winked at Neria, whose eyes were darting all around the trailer, then opened up a laptop, slightly more updated than the old disconnected desktop computer in the office inside. “I’m sure you will find that our database here is far more complete than any other in Thedas.”
“Your computer is...linked?” Neria gasped, making no attempt to contain her excitement. “To the Network?”
“You could say that.”
“So then you must be a…” Neria’s eyes grew wide and she beamed at the woman.
“I understand why you might make that assumption, child. You met my daughter, yes?”
“Yes, but you’re so old!” Neria had never heard of a Link living past forty in the Facility, and they were fed all kinds of statistics about how their average life span decreased dramatically the moment they stepped outside of one. But this woman...
Alistair swallowed, shooting Neria a worried look before glancing back at the woman apologetically.
She merely smiled at him and nodded back at the girl staring at her in wonder. “Indeed I am. Quite old, in fact. I dare say ancient.”