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Leave your messages and private correspondence for Master Kenobi right here, if you please.

Yes, of course.

[He always has the time for duty. For friends, less often so, but not for a lack of willingness.]

We'll be on the road for some time, yet. What's concerning you?

[ 'we'? ]

Are you alone?

[There is a notable hesitation in which the furrowing of Obi-Wan's brow, though silent, is still communicated with all due eloquence.]

Not as such, no. But I-- one moment.

[The silence that follows is less a pause, and more that Obi-Wan has deactivated his crystal. After a short time, his voice returns.]

Go ahead.

[ he waits, going over his papers, tidying his room. obi-wan returns, and he is comforted by the absence of noise. ]

What will you do when the Inquisition or another body like it finds fault once more with my cousin or myself?

That depends largely on the nature of the fault, and the specific reaction of the offended party to that supposed fault. It is the right of a governing body to make and enforce laws on is own territory, after all. We are guests here.

[Thranduil please don't do this to him, what are you up to?]

...However, I am obligated to speak on your behalf, at least insofar as the Inquisition is concerned. But surely you wouldn't be planning something unseemly?

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One day, I fear they will not need a reason. I am an elf, and a Rifter. I remain in Skyhold for convenience's sake. I owe them no allegiance beyond reasonable friendship.

[ of course he has plans, obi-wan, but none that'll come to fruition while you're around. ]

What will you do, Obi-wan, if Galadriel is imprisoned once more. If I am.

I can't make a commitment based on supposition, even if I had it in my power to do much of anything beyond the Inquisition's sphere of influence.

[Obi-Wan is beginning, with an intuition honed by a decade of Anakin Skywalker's friendship, to assume that Thranduil is indeed planning to give them damned good reason to lock one or both of them up. He sighs, heavily; it seems somehow incongruous to be attempting to explain the political dispassion of the Jedi Order here, where so much of the foundation of that dispassion is utterly lacking.]

Neither do I. But, it's not a Jedi's place to... to overthrow ordinary governing practice. [Is a lie.] Regardless, I would like to consider us as friends.

I will do what is right, always.

I need very little from you, my friend. Take care to remember one thing.

[ truthfully, he doesn't expect to be caught for his machinations. if they come for him, it will be for an unintended slight or a thousand small things that mark him as proud and not in the least meek as they think the elven should be. if he offends where no normal man would take offense. ]

If the Inquisition should ever imprison me, know it is because I went willingly, at least at first. I cannot promise my willingness to stay in captivity if they intend to attempt to torture me or such along those lines.

I'm not sure I want to ask what you're implying. [If only because he knows that saying it aloud will make whatever's said unavoidable, in some sense.] I wouldn't expect anyone to sit placidly by while being threatened with torture.

Such tactics are as pointless as they are barbaric; no reasonable person would condone them, I'm sure.

[That's as close to an 'I'll back you up' as Obi-Wan is willing to go, at least outright.]

Is there such cause for concern? I can return to Skyhold, if I'm more needed there.

No need for implications; I will state it plainly. I am concerned the... novelty of what the Quendi are is wearing thin. Two years, five; it matters little. We are too different from what they know.

We will become inconvenient.

[ it's something. ]

Nothing. All is well. I have seen some unexpected cruelties. I do not like leaving these sorts of things to the last moment.

I suppose it's a blind-spot of mine. I come from a place with so diverse a population... I forget.

[There's bigotry enough, in the Galaxy far, far away, but rarely is it so systemic, or so inescapable; the sky is too wide, and too full of wealthy and powerful alien worlds for anything like Thedas' blanket hatred to flower. Or, so Obi-Wan thinks.

Realizing that he's let the silence go on for too long, Obi-Wan inhales, but can only offer a formless hm, of tentative agreement.]

Prudent of you.

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