[ There is a reason for this delay! Blood magic is scary, first of all. And a lot of other things have been going on. But now all of the things that are going on or going on five years in the future, and this Alistair, the present time one, is finally done limping and sulking and has some time to kill. He decides to kill it by knocking on the wooden portion of Merrill's aravel. ]
This is Knight-Corporal Gareth, [ he lies, pitching his voice deeper in an attempt to mimic Knight-Corporal Gareth, who he's just invented, but who is definitely enormous and scary and stuff. Unfortunately for him, he still just sounds like Alistair-trying-to-deepen-his-voice, though. ] Come out. I'm taking you in for apostasy.
action, sometime nowish.
This is Knight-Corporal Gareth, [ he lies, pitching his voice deeper in an attempt to mimic Knight-Corporal Gareth, who he's just invented, but who is definitely enormous and scary and stuff. Unfortunately for him, he still just sounds like Alistair-trying-to-deepen-his-voice, though. ] Come out. I'm taking you in for apostasy.