“Nava’s in the tavern. I’ll catch her if she comes out without you.” Yuni replied, an amused and a bit ominous smile on his face.
“Couldn’t have made it any easier just out of pity, huh.” Astra frowned at his brother, hoping he wouldn’t need to chase his daughter inside and make a scene. They were playing, and she got really excited about some plan or another, running off just slowly enough that he would follow, but faster than he could keep up with.
Immediately after he stepped in, Astra understood why she had led him around like that, as the door swung open and a bucketful of water fell on him, drenching him completely. He froze in the doorway to the chorus of laughter from Nava, Sera, and Andri. ...Of course they would team up. From the corner of his eye he saw Krem coughing like he’d inhaled his ale, and the mortified silence from other tavern visitors, unsure of whether they dared laugh at their inquisitor.
Astra took a deep breath, reached down and quickly summoned ice to the bucket, unfroze it with a little bit of fire, and tossed it at the trio now screaming in surprise while the audience in the tavern finally joined in the cheering, tense moment broken by his response.
A very quick entry to the @dragonageden Theme week prompt “[...] did what this time?!”, the blank being Sera and Andri in this case (and a too-short-to-be-visible 6-year old Nava Lavellan). Straight from my fic WIP, many chapters ahead of where it’s at right now. This is what you get for bringing your sister to Skyhold, Astra. She’ll date Sera and they’ll be unstoppable.