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[Aveline follows the lights -- well, first she tries to head in an alternate direction but it proves not to lead anywhere, so then she follows the lights -- but when they take her to look at a city close that looks...ruined is the only word Aveline can think of for it, with another, glowing, city far off in the distance she decides to go looking at her belongings.]

I can't exactly say that this was what I've been expecting.

[Aveline doesn't have a great idea of how this type of magic works, but she can read. And while reading the wrong thing can be dangerous, she's not in the mood to accept complete ignorance of where she is. They don't have technology that can communicate across distances like this that Aveline's really seen, but she's heard the idea floated as something that would make serving in the guard a lot more convenient. It's nothing more than theory, but this looks like the sketches she was shown.]

If this works for some reason, then whoever's on the other end please identify yourself, where this is that I've been taken, and what state this region identifies itself with.

[Because it seems like a good idea to find out if she's in the Tevinter Imperium, for example. If so, she'd be suspicious about alerting anyone that she's here, other than the glaringly obvious fact that she didn't come here on her own free will and so whoever put her here must already know where she is.]

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[She's finally gotten instruction on using the... item, and feels that now is the time to put them to the test.]

Guard-Captain. This area is not a part of Thedas, and as such does not identify with any regions you or I would know.

[Meredith assumes that her own voice is recognizable enough that she doesn't need to identify herself.]

Knight-Commander.

[Aveline had assumed she'd be along here. But Meredith...]

How did you come to be here?

No one is particularly clear on how it happened. The timing lead me to believe it was magic, but the First Enchanter eliminated the option of it being magic from our world, at least.

[And, seeing the question coming...]

He is here, as are three of your... traveling companions, as far as whom I have noted thus far: Vael, Fenris, and the apostate.

[Nope. No name for him.]

The...timing?

[A name might have been better, since Aveline's now reasonably sure 'the apostate' is Hawke.]

Will they respond to this, or is there a better way to get into contact with them?

[A pause. That was an odd question, in Meredith's mind, because she would think the moment stood out.]

Mere minutes after the Chantry was destroyed seemed significant in my eyes. And your guess is as good as mine. I arrived with Fenris, the First Enchanter, and the apostate, and later found Vael while walking through what remains of this town.

The Chantry was destroyed? What exactly do you mean by that?

[And that's a...worrying combination of people to have been abducted away from Kirkwall.]

[Aveline was there. Meredith knew it. And this opened up a disquieting possibility, of people forgetting things. Why wouldn't it be possible? They were here, after all.]

The First Enchanter and I were debating my desire to search the Circle for blood mages. The Champion arrived, and with him, all of you who have joined your cause to his. And as we chose to speak with Elthina, the apostate stepped forward and declared there would be no more compromise.

[She exhaled, nearly a snort. That had particularly stuck in her memory.]

And then he gestured with the staff, and the Chantry burst into crimson pillars of light and exploded.

[...So then the apostate who is here has to be Anders. Not Aveline's first assumption, because where then is Hawke? Nor her first choice, except for the fact that she can step back and at least be grateful that Hawke's probably back in Kirkwall then, and at least there's someone level-headed.]

Anders blew up the chantry? Maker's breath...

Was there anyone in it?

The Grand Cleric, at least. I've not had time to find out who else; the streets are chaos and I was moving to create order again when I arrived here. But there are always at least a few sisters within its walls at any hour of the night.

[In a way, even though Aveline hadn't remembered the explosion, the Guard-Captain's shock was a small relief. If those closest to Anders were shocked (and the Champion had been shocked as well,) then Meredith could not have seen this coming, could not have stopped it.]

You do not recall any of this? You were there as well, and moving to assist myself and the Champion.

I'm sure I wasn't.

Perhaps if it just happened word hadn't yet gotten to me.

All of you were present, at the Champion's side. I saw it with my own eyes. The Dwarf, the Rivaini, yourself, Fenris, Vael, the Dalish mage, and the apostate.

I'm entirely certain I would remember something like that, but I don't see what motivation you would have to be dishonest about it.

I have none. But it does raise the disquieting question of why you do not remember it, and how.

The last thing I remember is interrupting Jeven's rally in Darktown. The Chantry was fine the last time I saw it.

...Jeven? [There's a small bit of surprise in her voice.] Former Captain of the Guard? I'd not realized he'd become an issue again.

He had, yes. I can guarantee now that he won't ever be one again.

Good. The corrupt must always be rooted out and removed.

A reasonable enough standard.

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