video; @mementomori

[fatedcontract]

[The phone starts recording at Makoto tries to pry a growing cat off of the screen. There's a little objective mew as he does but he gives him a little chin scritch.]

Oh, Felix. I know, you miss him. [A little meow and he head butts the phone, giving Makoto a chance to turn it full towards him and- oh. It's recording.]

Ah, sorry about that. I, uh, I'm not very good at this but I guess I should tell everyone that Yu Narukami has gone back home. I have his cat, Felix.

[This time, a fuzzy little head butt the phone to look at him.] I've never cared for a cat before. We had Koromaru back in the dorm on Tatsumi Port Island but he's a dog. And pretty self sufficient.

So, advice on taking care of a cat would be very appreciated.

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[fatedcontract]

Really?

[He blinks and then laughs softly.]

I'm not great with languages but I think it means 'lucky' in Latin, as well. I never really learned much except some English.

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[tevinteraltus]

Yes. It became something of a joke, though a black one.

[He shakes his head, though, replacing the vague melancholy of his expression with a smirk.]

The language of "Rome", yes? I've looked into it, vocabulary mostly. Tevene is all but a dead language in my own world, mind, but it shares enough similarities with this Latin as to suggest, why, a dialect, almost.

[Can we talk about this more? Instead of Felix? The person, not the cat, though the cat is cute.]

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[fatedcontract]

Mm, it's a dead language where I'm from so I mostly poke at words sometimes. Sorry it became a joke where you're from though. That's awful.

[He's okay with that.]

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[tevinteraltus]

Only in one very specific situation.

[He nods.]

Yes, it would seem what happened to Rome is rather similar to the fall of Tevinter.

[A beat.]

That is not a comforting thought, actually.

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[fatedcontract]

Still.

[Awful.]

Ah, no. I don't imagine it will be. You're making an effort to make things better though so hopefully Tevinter will turn out better off. And you could learn a thing or two here, maybe get some allies.

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[tevinteraltus]

Oh, I've had allies, and have, it's a matter of convincing the majority of the Magisterium to vote in our favor.

...several times, not to mention the reformation of the entirety of the Templar order and...yes. With time, I believe we can be successful.

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[fatedcontract]

Several times?

[He's still young and, smart as he is, politics can get complicated.]

You can't just... vote the other guys out or something?

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[tevinteraltus]

...do you truly wish for me to bore you with the tedium of Senate politics?

[He laughs.]

We're dealing with mages, here, and cunning ones. Being voted out requires, well, a vote. It's easier to make those who disagree simply...disappear, which I suppose is what's caused this problem in the first place, but when assassination and false imprisonment are the usual answers to disagreement, changing the norm becomes tedious at best.

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[fatedcontract]

[Well... okay maybe not. Makoto laughs softly.]

I never was great with politics.

That does sound like it would be a hell of a lot of work. You'd have to build yourself a reliable source of allies, guards too maybe. So no one could bump you off.

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[tevinteraltus]

I thought not.

[But if he's judging Makoto for that, it doesn't seem like it. He does, though, nodd at the young man's assessment.]

Indeed, and the assassins may still find you. It's all very risky.