He seems genuinely, surprisingly, interested in her activities. So, after a little frown of curiosity, she answers more directly.
"A few different things," she says. "My primary project - the thing I care most about - is seeing the slaves up north freed. As we talked about. So I'm reading a lot about Tevinter, and about the history of slavery there - not that there's much to read about, given how utterly dull and uninteresting most educated folks have apparently found the lives of slaves." A deeper frown shows what she thinks of that. "But I'm reading about Andraste, too, and her life, to see if it'd be possible to stir up the religious types and their religious feelings to mobilize them in the cause for freedom.
"Other things I'm looking at - Lyrium, red lyrium specifically, that's something I've been researching. Awful stuff - absolutely dreadful - the more I read the worse it seems. History, still, though I feel like I've got a firm enough grasp on a lot of parts of the world - not all of 'em, but enough that I'm not scrambling for an explanation of some reference I come across every two paragraphs. Every seven or eight paragraphs, instead, now." A wry shrug. "And a little bit about magic, but honestly, magical theory is so complicated here that I feel as though I'd need another lifetime to even start to get a handle on it, and it doesn't seem as though there's all that much that learning about it is adding to my general knowledge. Few other things, too - but I'm chattering on, I don't know if you wanted this much detail."
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Date: 2018-11-17 11:12 pm (UTC)"A few different things," she says. "My primary project - the thing I care most about - is seeing the slaves up north freed. As we talked about. So I'm reading a lot about Tevinter, and about the history of slavery there - not that there's much to read about, given how utterly dull and uninteresting most educated folks have apparently found the lives of slaves." A deeper frown shows what she thinks of that. "But I'm reading about Andraste, too, and her life, to see if it'd be possible to stir up the religious types and their religious feelings to mobilize them in the cause for freedom.
"Other things I'm looking at - Lyrium, red lyrium specifically, that's something I've been researching. Awful stuff - absolutely dreadful - the more I read the worse it seems. History, still, though I feel like I've got a firm enough grasp on a lot of parts of the world - not all of 'em, but enough that I'm not scrambling for an explanation of some reference I come across every two paragraphs. Every seven or eight paragraphs, instead, now." A wry shrug. "And a little bit about magic, but honestly, magical theory is so complicated here that I feel as though I'd need another lifetime to even start to get a handle on it, and it doesn't seem as though there's all that much that learning about it is adding to my general knowledge. Few other things, too - but I'm chattering on, I don't know if you wanted this much detail."