The thing about the Gallows, Kirkwall, Riftwatch, is this:
Ellis is allowed some distance from what he'd done. He is allowed to exist here as if he had not chosen wrong, as if it had only been the chaos of the coup that had given him opportunity to leave rather than follow the rest of Warden forces into Corypheus' grasp.
"Alright," he says, after a moment. Alright as if it such a simple thing, and he is not trying to parse what such a friendship might look like.
Adrasteia would say it's very simple, so Ellis does not remark to her that it feels complicated. Instead, he nudges the plate of toast across the tray towards her in quiet suggestion.
bless u
Ellis is allowed some distance from what he'd done. He is allowed to exist here as if he had not chosen wrong, as if it had only been the chaos of the coup that had given him opportunity to leave rather than follow the rest of Warden forces into Corypheus' grasp.
"Alright," he says, after a moment. Alright as if it such a simple thing, and he is not trying to parse what such a friendship might look like.
Adrasteia would say it's very simple, so Ellis does not remark to her that it feels complicated. Instead, he nudges the plate of toast across the tray towards her in quiet suggestion.