[ That's not something she's heard before. Now that adds so many more questions. Lavellan is silent, hurt, and passes a hand over her forehead and eyes. ]
Well.
[ Shit. Why would he leave? ]
I suppose that's why he was so...jumpy about being around us. At least, that's how he was around me.
Can I?
[ He tries to hide the trepidation, but of course there is some. How can there not be, considering her size and the idea she can rend him to shreds if she so desired with just a thought? But feeding a dragon - how many people got to say they had done that in their lives? He wouldn't be passing it up. ]
What counts as a treat? A full rib eye steak?
[ FROWN. ]
I knew I asked for the wrong thing.
[ There go any hopes she had at removing the mark from herself, too. She frowns. uncertain how she wants to proceed with this information. ]
He... I guess he thought he was escaping us somehow and then found us all here, so he returned.
[ Which doesn't make it any easier to cope with. ]
I think-- I think he called me vhenan when he saw me. But he wouldn't tell me why. He looked like he'd seen a ghost when I saw him.
Well, she's really doing us all a favor if she takes out the pigeons.
[ He stood, brushing his hands on his jeans and looked to Bull, no little amount of excitement in those blue eyes. ]
How about a dog bone?
[ Because handling meat was all well and good, but that seemed a bit to much like tempting fate, so something a little less on the range of her immediate diet. ]
So she's a giant cat. Does she knock shit off the counter too?
[ Both amusing and slightly horrifying. He hoped she didn't have the habit of sitting on people's faces as well. He went to the kitchen, opening it up and locating the bag quickly. He riffled around for the biggest piece he could find before coming back, twirling the bone with his fingers. ]
You want a treat, pretty girl?
Strong enough to drink myself into a stupor, anything less and I may as well drink water.
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