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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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keep_busy
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"Oh - my father, Janar Merow of the Smith Caste. And, um, you're welcome! What do you think of these...?" She shows him her designs.
first-and-final
"I'll have to trust Annie about the accuracy of your swan, but it all looks fine to me," he says.
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Stalas kisses Annie on the cheek. "That is a lovely animal. Yeah, go ahead and make those, Dagna."
keep_busy
"Metella and Tev are here. She's going to check tonight if I go to the Fade in my dreams like regular local humans do," Annie mentions.
first-and-final
"Interesting. Dagna, would you mind answering the door? I am busy," says Stalas, hugging Annie.
iwillgetyou
"Prince Stalas," says Metella. "It's very nice to meet you. May I have some of your blood so I can investigate it for lyrium content?"
iwillgetyou
Metella pokes Stalas's finger with a small pokey pin and gets a drop of blood onto a tiny metal dish, where she stares at it for a few seconds until it flares with brilliant white light.
iwillgetyou
"A very good question," says Metella. "Tev's blood only glowed very faintly, and in the usual shade of blue. This... Stalas, your blood is more lyrium-like than purified lyrium."
keep_busy
"That... does not make sense as a sentence," Annie says, "it sounds more like you're not measuring lyrium-likeness per se but some sort of power output to indirectly guess it."
iwillgetyou
"It's not just power output, although power output is definitely the most obvious sign, it's... if you put a drop of maximally concentrated lyrium potion and a drop of Stalas's blood in front of me, and I didn't know anything about either of them to begin with, I would identify the potion as a dilute or impure extraction of the magically active ingredient in Stalas's blood. Stalas's blood is, or at least contains, a more... advanced, powerful, concentrated, form of lyrium."
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"I'm really starting to wish you'd been able to take a look at me before I got - purified," he says. "I wonder what I was like then."
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Stalas laughs. "I'm not complaining, mind you! Being a purified Stalas is very convenient on a number of levels!"
iwillgetyou
"It certainly seems that way..."
Metella gazes thoughtfully at the drop of blood on her dish, now inert, its power expended.
"I want to have six months uninterrupted to study this. With multiple other samples to compare it to. Humans, elves, dwarves, qunari, mages and non-mages, Grey Wardens and non-Grey Wardens, you and Tev. I want to know what happens if you purify Tev, too, but there simply aren't enough Grey Wardens available to risk losing one..."
Metella gazes thoughtfully at the drop of blood on her dish, now inert, its power expended.
"I want to have six months uninterrupted to study this. With multiple other samples to compare it to. Humans, elves, dwarves, qunari, mages and non-mages, Grey Wardens and non-Grey Wardens, you and Tev. I want to know what happens if you purify Tev, too, but there simply aren't enough Grey Wardens available to risk losing one..."
all-the-thoughts
"I want to know what happens if you put Stalas's blood in someone else's blood," says Dagna. "Or like, in someone else? That's probably dangerous. But we could learn so much!"