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Katica Lavellen set Xiu Ying down in the main hall of Skyhold.
She signed to the little fox kit, “Stay here, alright? We’re going to Fallow Mire and I don’t think you’ll like it.”
The baby fox whined and lifted her paws, a bright light appearing.
Katica gripped her tiny paws at once, looking round.
No one seemed to have notice this thanks to Sera who had just caused a diversion with a swarm of bees, twenty pounds of jam and a badger.
“I know you have magic to look after yourself but that’s a secret for now, remember?” Katica signed.
Xiu Ying refused to be left behind and attempted to climb into Katica’s pocket.
“Boss, we’re ready to go,” the Iron Bull called.
Katica nodded and looked round, stepping over a puddle of jam when she spotted the answer to her problems.
Her Commander, Cullen Rutherford was striding through the chaos, heading to Josephine’s office.
She ran over at once, gripping a crying Xiu Ying in her arms.
The ex-templar jumped when she pulled at his arm.
“Oh! Inquisitor- is everything alright?” he asked, before glancing at the state of the hall, “Beyond the obvious I mean.”
Katica pulled him down and placed Xiu Ying in the fur of his cloak.
“I- you- what is happening?”
Cullen didn’t understand sign language like Leliana and Josephine so Katica simply pointed at him and then at Xiu Ying, and mimed rocking a baby.
“You want me to look after your pet?” Cullen asked.
Xiu Ying squeaked her displeasure.
She was not a pet!
She was a powerful magical being from beyond Thed-
Katica nodded and ran off to join her party.
Cullen was a little unsure what to do with the Inquisitor’s favoured pet. Normally the little creature spent its days stuck to the elf like a burr or lounging with Vivienne up on the mezzanine.
Still, it shouldn’t be too difficult.