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[bheidh]

Who: bheidh & OPEN
When: IC 6/16
Where: Shopping District + Pleasure District
What: A field trip of exploration ( getting lost ) and an evening of entertainment ( working )
Rating/Warning: None

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( shopping district )

( She feels so lost - out of place, does Leliana. The bright lights, stores and tall buildings are quite a way away from Thedas, and they're as unfamiliar as they could be. Leliana's no stranger to shopping - from markets to the higher end shops of Orlais, but this is quite different. This doesn't feel the same as the shops that Leliana knows, especially not when she's had little opportunity to shop in more recent years.

Though Leliana can keep it from her expression there's something in the way she moves - her slower steps, her gaze around the streets - that shows how out of place Leliana feels. She's curious - occassionally stopping at a store window to see their wares, but for the most part she's walking along down the streets - just trying to figure it all out.

Modern technology had been mentioned to her in that last 'game' - in what Leliana had thought was the Fade. What the man had called virtual reality Leliana had thought was something else, but in the days since - and with nothing so familiar (or demon-y) happening Leliana's wondering just how right he may have been. As ridiculous as it all is. She doesn't want to let her guard down - to just accept it - but this is far from Leliana's dreams, and with so many here that she knows of, and with less fight to escape than she'd have thought-

It's partly why Leliana's exploring the area. Gathering her bearings is one thing, to know that if she needs to she knows where to go - to get supplies, to find somewhere secure, but also to gather information. She may be removed from Skyhold but tricks and training don't just leave you, and finding out everything that Leliana can would aid her greatly now. And those she knows )

( pleasure district )

( It's late evening when Leliana's at work, and surprisingly it's the most familiar thing about this whole experience. Though her 'uniform' isn't quite what Leliana knows from the Chantry it's closer than the outfit she'd arrived in (jeans, Cassandra had called them).

The work isn't quite the same - Leliana knows how to woo and to tease, to get close to people and enchant them, but she's never been a whore. It's what she has to do - no worse that killing a man, though Leliana is using it for her own means too. For those that pay extra - to take the Sister for a private show - she tries to ask what she can, to trade as many peeks for secrets as possible.

Her 'part' - or act, as her boss tells her, involves singing, and it is something of a relief - a comfort. It feels just as the game did at times - enchanting, singing, getting what you need. She pulls on the tales from Thedas, songs passed among the bards as Leliana moves around the room from patron to patron. For now she's still clothed, not that the uniform gives her much for clothing, trying to see who she can extract secrets from that night )

Comments

[hairysituations]

I think you know.

[ he's not super keen on doing it here—not that he really expects anyone to be listening or honestly care what they're going to be talking about. he probably could be more careless, between the men being distracted by nuns and the amount of people he suspects came from thedas other than them (0), but it's just not in his nature. ]

But I don't want to keep you from richer patrons for too long. I'm lucky I've got two coins to rub together right now.

... There're some things I'd like to compare, at any rate.

[bheidh]

But there's more than just riches.

( And she knows that he knows that - that money isn't the only currency. Though what they have to talk about isn't really secrets to trade perhaps something can be arranged in any case )

Come. There's somewhere- quieter.

( The room in the back where the privater affairs take place. Plus, she'd rather spend a moment talking to Varric than another patron )