Which is what he expected. It's exactly the temperature it should be, sitting right next to Dorian's body like it does. Quiet, still, a little too thin to fit comfortably in his hand. Except for the decoration, there's nothing weird about it. A weapon like any other weapon. Just one he doesn't use.
Right. Right.
His head twitches when Dorian whispers to him, gaze startled away from his hand over to the door. He starts really slowly toward it, first trying to hop without putting any weight on the ankle at all and then putting a little, just enough to help him move a little more smoothly, more quietly. The staff is going to make some noise if he thumps it too suddenly on the stone; he's going to have to watch out for that.
Once he reaches the door he stops, considering the layout of the place that he's got in his head. He landed facing the one direction, went that way for a while, went left, almost died, went left some more, went in here- okay. Behind them is where the darkspawn came from. In front of them is the cliff edge, somewhere up ahead. Going left to backtrack risks running into darkspawn, too. Not necessarily a certainty, but a risk, which makes one direction the slightly less crappy choice.
He nods to the right and tentatively starts out, head moving around more than it normally would to compensate for the reduced vision of the mask. He'd give the stupid thing to Dorian if he could, if there wasn't too much risk of parts of it being contaminated already.
Don't worry about it. Just move. Keep a look out. Don't make too much noise.
One good thing about the mask, anyway - he doesn't have to waste too much concentration on keeping the pain off his face. If Dorian looks really close he might see something in the creasing around the Bull's eye, but Dorian's got more important things to watch out for.
(ooc: Wasn't sure if this gives you enough to do/talk about so feel free to skip to one of the other things we talked about happening? And/or they can go somewhere where they feel like sound isn't going to carry as well so they can talk, or whatever? We can talk out what should happen next if we need to.)
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Which is what he expected. It's exactly the temperature it should be, sitting right next to Dorian's body like it does. Quiet, still, a little too thin to fit comfortably in his hand. Except for the decoration, there's nothing weird about it. A weapon like any other weapon. Just one he doesn't use.
Right. Right.
His head twitches when Dorian whispers to him, gaze startled away from his hand over to the door. He starts really slowly toward it, first trying to hop without putting any weight on the ankle at all and then putting a little, just enough to help him move a little more smoothly, more quietly. The staff is going to make some noise if he thumps it too suddenly on the stone; he's going to have to watch out for that.
Once he reaches the door he stops, considering the layout of the place that he's got in his head. He landed facing the one direction, went that way for a while, went left, almost died, went left some more, went in here- okay. Behind them is where the darkspawn came from. In front of them is the cliff edge, somewhere up ahead. Going left to backtrack risks running into darkspawn, too. Not necessarily a certainty, but a risk, which makes one direction the slightly less crappy choice.
He nods to the right and tentatively starts out, head moving around more than it normally would to compensate for the reduced vision of the mask. He'd give the stupid thing to Dorian if he could, if there wasn't too much risk of parts of it being contaminated already.
Don't worry about it. Just move. Keep a look out. Don't make too much noise.
One good thing about the mask, anyway - he doesn't have to waste too much concentration on keeping the pain off his face. If Dorian looks really close he might see something in the creasing around the Bull's eye, but Dorian's got more important things to watch out for.
(ooc: Wasn't sure if this gives you enough to do/talk about so feel free to skip to one of the other things we talked about happening? And/or they can go somewhere where they feel like sound isn't going to carry as well so they can talk, or whatever? We can talk out what should happen next if we need to.)