5th Floor Common Room, Friday Evening

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After last year, Kathy wasn't going to try trick-or-treating around the dorms again, but that didn't mean she couldn't celebrate the holiday anyway. She'd splurged on a really awesome angel costume and had even gotten Minako into the spirit of things. (She'd also gotten a little kitty costume for Artemis, but he'd seen her come into the room and fled under Minako's bed and no amount of cajoling would get him to come out.) Rather than wandering the town, however, she settled for decorating the common room with crepe paper, plastic decals, and big bowls of candy and finding a channel on the TV that was playing all the Halloween specials she remembered from her childhood, with promises of scarier fare later in the evening.

Sure, at some point, Kathy was gonna have to trade her angel wings for her karate gi and go patrol the streets of Baltimore, but until then, she was going to live it up Halloween style.

Best holiday.

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"That sounds like a douchey thing to do," Kathy said, before realizing that, oops, she was talking about Anders' god here. "Sorry." She flushed. "I just mean--I know how much it sucks when my dad stops talking to me because he's mad and that rarely lasts longer than a week. I can't imagine taking that to eternity."

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"Don't be sorry," Anders told her, smiling a little. "Douchey's a good word for it. But there's no law that the creator of a universe needs to be particularly pleasant, is there? It's just a legend, anyhow. For all I know, maybe the Maker doesn't talk to us because he's too busy sticking his tongue down Andraste's throat."

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"...That's an image of God and the Virgin Mary I'll never get out of my head," Kathy sighed. "Does everyone in your world believe in the Maker? And the Chantry's teaching?"

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Anders shook his head. "Most elves and dwarves don't," he said. "Qunari, either, I don't think. But for humans, if they have a religion at all, it's that one. Which doesn't mean everyone takes it seriously."