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Alistair is grateful not to be noticed as he winds through the streets of Kirkwall. The cloak he has pulled about his shoulders isn’t really much use as a disguise, light and unhooded as it is, but no one seems to pay him much mind. He has a scrap of parchment in his hand, a crudely, messily drawn map that doesn’t really seem to corroborate with any of the streets down which he is passing; none of the distances or directions make much sense and he wonders, again, how on earth the person who sketched it for him can be a writer with a hand like that.
There is a crest on the wall opposite him, gilded into a door, and he peers down at the paper and then back up to compare the two. He supposes—if one was told to draw the crest without lifting pen from paper, and using only seven lines, they could be the same.
Breathing out a sigh and hoping he hasn’t been misled, Alistair tucks the paper into his sleeve and crosses the square, rapping his knuckles against the door sharply.
Hawke was sat at her desk, boredly going through and replying to the pile of letters that seemed to grow as days went on. If it were up to her, she would be out and venturing across Kirkwall, seeing what trouble would inevitably find her, but, alas, here she was, stuck behind her desk and writing letters. She planned to delay the task as much as possible, for as long as she could go for without having someone lecturing her about the importance of humoring the nobles in order to prevent the drama that they tended to begin.
A groan escaped from the Champion as she ran nimble fingers through raven black hair before reaching for her cup of wine and taking a few long sips, her cerulean eyes flicking over the words she had carefully laced together in the letter, seeing if she had derailed anywhere and accidentally wrote something too inappropriate to whom she was writing to.
Her mother always told her to hold her tongue whenever she wrote letters. "Well, you do have a tendency to... irritate those you speak to. Do try to be more careful with your words, darling." Was what Leandra would always say.
The sound of someone knocking on her door was music to her ears and brought a delighted grin on her face. It didn't mater if it turned out to be another troubled person asking favors -- at least she didn't have to write anymore blasted letters.
Hawke listened from her study as Bodahn opened the door and greeted the stranger, deciding to swing her door open and make an entrance when the dwarf said he would go get her.
❝Greetings, I'm Hawke. Champion of Kirkwall and Queen of writing terrible letters.
What bring you to my estate?❞