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For Dragon Age Kiss week, it’s Emmrich Volkarin being asked about his first kiss: My first kiss? You may not like to hear who it was with. It was in my first year at the academy. I was 13 and Johanna was 15. She sort of took me under her wing that year. I’m not sure why. I was all legs and arms and rather awkward, but she saw something in me. Protected me, you know, against some rather unkind classmates. We would often get away and have long discussions about magic, and the wonders of the Necropolis. She felt it was important I was educated in, well, other subjects as well. It wasn’t love, nor pity. It was just... her, and to me it was a kindness. —— It was tempting to expand on this... The two of them sitting in the stacks, talking of who knows what before the subject eventually turned to kissing. Young Emmrich admitting he’d never been kissed and boisterous Johanna having none of it. Emmrich noticing that her often callous nature, and disregard of importance of such personal milestones, is used like a shield. But, ultimately I thought it best for it to be a small snippet. Let your imagination run wild, as you please.
