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Oh! Andaran atish’an! This is such an interesting way to talk to people, don't you think? I can see your face and you can see mine! It's like a mirror, but it reflects other people back at you.

[Merrill waves, smiling broadly, her large eyes sparkling with delight.]

My name is Merrill, and I'm looking for my friends. I appear to be a little lost. [She swings the tablet around too fast to really see anything useful. Just a lot of stone.] Did you see that? I'm lost. But I have friends who can help me become, ah, not lost.

Sometimes, when I was lost in Kirkwall, Isabela - she's one of my friends - would swoop down from the top of a building and tell me where to go. She's very pretty, with dark hair and a lovely blue bandana. Oh, and a necklace. It's quite hard to miss her necklace and what's below it. And there's Aveline, but sometimes I worry she doesn't like me. She has red hair, like the sun, and quite a lot of freckles. I like her freckles. I wish I had freckles... [Merrill trails off, tapping her fingers against her cheeks as if counting freckles. She comes back to herself suddenly.] I'm sorry, I tend to get lost in my thoughts. I think that's how I ended up here. Do you ever do that? You start thinking and then you just don't come out. What was I saying before?

Oh, yes, my friends! I have quite a few of them. Isabela and Aveline and Varric! Varric is a dwarf, and he's very funny, but his stories aren't always true. He tells me stories about pirates, but Isabela says they're mostly made up. And Fenris, he's elvhen, like me, but--that's not going to be trouble, is it? In Kirkwall, they make us live in alienages, and they're very dirty. I had a nice house, but it was very small. No one in Thedas seems to like the elvhen very much, and living in the alienage is very uncomfortable...

[She stares past the tablet screen for a moment, thoughtful.] I hope there aren't any alienages here...

If you know my friends, would you tell them I'm looking for them? Ma serannas for your troubles. Or, if you recognize this place-- [She ducks out of the frame, an alleyway filling the screen for a few seconds before she fumbles the tablet and then drops it. Merrill's face pops into the frame again, a worried expression on it.] Oh, dear, I hope I haven't broken you...

[ooc: Feel free to engage the very lost Merrill in actiony posts. As a Dalish elf, she tends to speak in the elvhen language frequently. You can hover over the text with your mouse to get a translation!]

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I don't think we've been introduced, no.

Oh, she's very nice. And pretty. She looks like one of those dolls the noblemen give their daughters, but I think she could fight if she had to. Without breaking.

[...wow, Merrill, she's just going to pretend that description wasn't vaguely creepy]

You're taking arriving here pretty well, I've gotta say.

Should I take it another way? Most of my friends are here, and they aren't putting the elvhenan in alienages. This is very nice.

Well, a lot of people take offense to the whole 'being kidnapped' bit.

I suppose so. I thought I'd gotten lost in Kirkwall. Until that lady showed up and explained things. But my friends are here, so I'm not alone. [And, really, that's all that matters to her. FWENDSHIP.]

That's really important to you, huh?

[A thoughtful pause.]

Yes. You can do a lot of things alone, but you can do more when you have someone there to help you.

A team, you mean.

That's -- definitely true.

I suppose we are a team. I'd never thought of it like that. They're my clan.

[She smiles.]

Do you have a clan?

[Well, that's a complicated question. Not really, she supposes, so long as she's just talking about back home.]

Yeah, sort of.

It's better that way. When you have people you can rely on to help you. Even if they don't agree.

...wait, even if they don't agree?

[whatchu talkin' about, Merrill.]

Oh, yes, Anders and I don't always agree on magic, but I would still support him. Most of the time. Hawke, too. And the others. We don't agree all the time, but on looking out for each other - that's most important.

I don't think most people would agree to -- support someone whose opinions they didn't share. You're ... very lucky.

Really? I wonder if we're doing it wrong, then.

Friendship.

[She smiles.]

I can support you, then.

[Wow Merrill, you're really a nice person. She ... can't deny that much, even if she looks a little sceptical.]

I think they've just got different ideas about it, personally. But -- I'll, uh, keep that in mind. Are you finding everything you need here?

Yes, I've found almost all of my friends. Most of them. They're very nice. Did I say we can share them? Because we can. If you'd like.

[She chuckles softly and shakes her head.]

I think that's more their choice, but it's a nice thought.

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