[MEMORY WRITE-UP] Dialogue with Isabela, act 2.

[eluvianathema]

Dialogue between Merrill and Isabela, act 2.

Merrill: (Sighs) Why do you even like me? I must seem so dull.
Isabela: What brought this on?
Merrill: Your life has been... so exciting. The adventures, the duels, the passionate love affairs.
Merrill: Compared to that, my life is a stale, dry biscuit. (Sighs) I wish I had your life.
Isabela: No. You don't want my life.
Merrill: Why?
Isabela: Because you have a good heart, and you deserve better.
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Merrill: What was Llomerryn like? I've never heard of a Dalish who's been there.
Isabela: I don't imagine your people travel between islands much.
Merrill: Not really, no.
Isabela: I wouldn't start waterproofing your wagons, then. I don't think Llomerryn is ready for the Dalish.
Merrill: What do you mean? Would we upset the people there?
Isabela: It's not really the kind of place where one turns down a tumble. Even refuse a fortune teller, and they'd run your lot out of town.
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Merrill: How do you suppose the Qunari scratch their heads with those horns in the way?
Isabela: Why do you think I would know?
Merrill: Because you know lots of things! I wonder if they rub their heads against tree trunks like halla do.
Isabela: I'd pay a sovereign to see that.
Merrill: No wonder they seem so cranky all the time.
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Merrill: You've had many lovers, haven't you?
Isabela: Fewer than some think.
Merrill: But you never stay with them.
Isabela: No, why should I?
Merrill: But the act of lovemaking is so... intimate.
Isabela: I don't "make love." What I do is only skin-deep, Kitten.
Isabela: Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
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Isabela: You and Hawke... something's there, isn't there?
Merrill: She's so amazing and beautiful. How could anyone not love her?
Isabela: Oh, I could give you a list, but that might just bore you.
Isabela: So... did you get naked?
Merrill: Isabela!
Isabela: Ooh, look at that blush. That good, huh?


LEARNED
+ isabela ///////////
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+ OKAY FOR REAL. Isabela is from Rivain, and Llomerryn is a port city near Antiva. Rivain is known for its considerable Qunari presence, as well as having a culture of seers and openness towards magic in general. Rivaini people tend to be dark-skinned, as evidenced by Isabela, Duncan, and Vivienne.
+ sex sex sex sex sex