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[sayhitobianca]

[Sealed to: Hawke, Anders, Aara, Zhaneel, and Riku]

[Varric's handwriting is messier than usual, and somewhat stilted, as though he took pauses every few words while writing it.]

Tell me you're all doing fine.

It'd probably be best if you all avoided me until this blows over.

[He's not in his room, but he's definitely going to quarantine himself. He's also not answering that other zombie post. Varric's telling Hawke, that's good enough for him.]

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[Text] - Sealed to Aara

[sayhitobianca]

[No, Aara, you don't sound fine at all. Which is another reason why Varric isn't talking, where he normally would've switched to audio for her: it'd be even more obvious that he's sick than it is with his handwriting.]

I'm not sure how much you can do, Birdie.

If you're not sick, I don't want to be the one to get you that way.

[audio]

[angha-firebird.livejournal.com]

I--I can help you! I can! I know it!

Just--

[Her words are cut off by a racking cough and a sniffle. Aara certainly hadn't had a cough before. She stills, trembling all over, and silence reigns for a good couple of minutes before the audio is reluctantly clicked off.]

[Text] - Sealed to Aara

[sayhitobianca]

[...Varric hears that. He's not letting it go.]

Birdie. Are you sick?

[Text] - Birdie can't come to the phone right now...

[angha-firebird.livejournal.com]

I... am not quite certain, yet.

Are you?

[Text] - Sealed to Aara /DDDDD: forever

[sayhitobianca]

[...damn it, Birdie. Why do you have to ask him direct questions like that.]

It's looking like I am.

You let me know when you're certain. If you're sick and you want company, it's yours.

[Text] - T________________T

[angha-firebird.livejournal.com]

I don't... want to be sick, Varric.

...I don't what you to be sick, either!

[Text] - Sealed to Aara

[sayhitobianca]

I don't want either of us to be either, Birdie. But sometimes things happen to us, even if we don't want them to.

We just have to deal with them the best we can. And not do it alone, if we can help it.

[Text]

[angha-firebird.livejournal.com]

You are not going to die, Varric. No one is...

[Alone? How many angha had died in the Rift? Alone?]

This is why you cannot be alone.

[Text] - Sealed to Aara

[sayhitobianca]

[He wishes he could assure her that he's not going to, but he doesn't want to make that promise. But at least he knows that here, dying isn't exactly permanent.]

I'll manage it, Birdie. I always do.

I'll be seeing you and Feathers shortly.

[Text]

[angha-firebird.livejournal.com]

I'll hold you to that, Varric.

[Don't think she won't.]

See you in a bit.

[Text] - Sealed to Aara

[sayhitobianca]

I'll be holding myself to it.