Dragon Age Inquisition: Farms and Estates

Letters from South Reach

Dear Mia,

I hope you will be pleased by what I am about to say, since you have been hinting at it for months. I am planning to visit you in South Reach. Would three weeks from now be suitable?

I will be bringing someone with me. Her name is Cecily Trevelyan (you may know her as the Inquisitor). I hope this will not prove inconvenient, but I would like very much for you all to meet her.

Love, Cullen

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Dear Cullen,

First: I cannot tell you how happy I am to hear you will visit us for the first time in a very long time (yes, I am underlining that).

Second: Maker's breath, brother, you're giving us three weeks' warning that the Inquisitor—THE INQUISITOR—will be joining you?

Cullen, we cannot hope to entertain someone of that station. It would be bad enough if she were merely Bann Trevelyan's daughter, let alone the leader of your Inquisition. You are asking us to play host to one of the most powerful women in Thedas. Where will she sleep? Shall we set her up a cot in the hayloft alongside yours? (I ask not because this is a serious option, but to illustrate how ill-prepared we are for such a visit.)

It is kind of you to offer us the chance to meet the Inquisitor, but if that is your object, surely it would be better for us to visit you in Skyhold? We will make the journey gladly in order to see you again.

Your loving but frazzled sister,

Mia

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Dear Mia,

I apologize. I was obviously unclear in my last letter. Cecily will be joining me not as the Inquisitor, but as the woman I love—a woman who, for some reason, loves me in return. She has agreed to come to South Reach because I want her to meet my family.

I know this may sound strange, but Cecily is just as nervous about meeting you as you are about meeting her. She is terribly shy around strangers and may seem formal at first. Our friend Dorian once compared Cecy to a mirror. If you are anxious, she will be anxious. If you are at ease with her, she will be at ease with you.

Don't worry about providing grand accommodations or entertainment. Give her the same welcome you would give me (perhaps with less teasing).

Your brother, Cullen

P.S.: Cecy says the cot in the hayloft alongside mine will do nicely, thank you.

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Dear Cullen,

Well. You have rendered me speechless (an unusual condition for me, as you know). Your letters from Skyhold were all very welcome, as they assured me you were alive, but you somehow found room to describe uniforms and requisitions and supply routes—supply routes—and you never let on that there was a woman in your life, or that it was the Inquisitor? We need to have a discussion about what sort of news you ought to include in your letters home.

I look forward to meeting your Cecily. We will try to be at ease with her, although I cannot promise we will be entirely successful. Rumor claims she has killed four dragons, after all.

Your loving sister, Mia

P.S.: If you actually asked the Inquisitor about whether she would agree to sleep on a cot in our hayloft, I will make you pay.

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Dear Mia,

Thank you. We will see you next week.

Love, Cullen

P.S.: It is six dragons now. I only mention this because she will not, and I am very proud of her.