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I'm thinking! Who would you choose, then?

The Provost. I refuse to lower my standard. [ Singular: no Templars. ] And the Provost seems more likely to let me top.

Do you think? Seems too undignified for someone that pretentious. Are you sure you're not just assuming because of the willowy elf thing and the knee-length hair?

Do you think Coupe is more likely?

...I suppose that's true. Hmmm.

But then you never really know, do you? I bet people have had that same thought about me.

I never did.

[ A slosh and swallow. He's drinking. But not too much. ]

Stop stalling and choose.

What? [ a little offended, and willing to be derailed by it because yes she is stalling ] Liar. Yes you did. You must have. How could you not?

I'm an excellent judge of character,

[ but not really, ]

and how hard someone wants to be fucked.

[ she scoffs. scoffs ] You're so full of shit. I could just have wanted to fuck hard, period, you could not have known I'd let you top. I don't think I'd even realized that yet when we met again.

[ He is full of shit. But every gram of it is smug. ]

I knew in Nevarra.

Full of shit! [ says Nell, but she is laughing even as she emphasizes. ] I was still practically a nun when you left, vow of chastity and all.

Mmmm.

[ Like she’s proving his point. Or maybe like he’s thinking about nuns. But— ]

You honestly weren’t fucking anyone?

When did you leave? Eighteen, nineteen? I didn't fuck anyone until I was at least twenty-three. -ish. Thereabouts. I cared about rules, remember?

Stop thinking about nuns.

No.

[ Are there nuns in Thedas? There are now. ]

I cared about the rules, too, but there are limits. Twenty-three. Maker. That explains so much.

It does, doesn't it?

Is it going to take you twenty-three years to answer my question, too?

First of all, it's a hard question! And second, I'm drawing it out for your benefit. Where's the fun in a quick, easy answer?

I had follow-up questions. A whole tournament bracket.

You'll have to re-seed because I've made my decision, and it's both. At the same time. And pray that they balance each other out somehow.

Now you’ve ruined everything.

It's the right answer.

Debatable.

The Ambassador or the Scoutmaster?

Ambassador. All that teeth-grinding obsession with honor has to have some outlet. I bet she's secretly wild.

Like a nun.

[ Mmm. ]

Would you take your threesome with Coupe and Thranduil over either of them?

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