He flinches at the grab and shake, fear showing in his eyes for a brief second before he's hiding it.
"That was my whole life until recently," he points out with a little bit of grumpiness returning as he reaches down to support her foot with one hand and start casting with the other. "Hawke cared about the--many of you cared about the mages, but there was always other business to be done too. It felt like I was the only one watching the noose grow tighter, because I'd been the only one to see it before, elsewhere."
When he'd been driven out of the Wardens initially, for instance. That grudge has faded into a dull ache, but it still lingers.
"Merrill, by the way, is likely trying to figure out the secret of walking through those mirrors. There's a lot of them still intact or only partially damaged around Thedas. She was with the Inquisition for a time too. Fenris... he's somewhere around Kirkwall. I don't care to find out where. Some people don't mature. Isabela swung by as well, but you're right that she's vanished again, likely to the sea. Varric's at Skyhold; hopefully he'll be coming here." He pauses, finishing the easy repair work and straightening. Nothing broken means nothing too difficult.
"Bethany and Carver are here, though, and they were recently looking for Marion. I was helping elsewhere, or I would have gone with. And fuck Sebastian. He can pray to his crotch until he rots, but I do have fond dreams of an Ogre stepping on him."
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"That was my whole life until recently," he points out with a little bit of grumpiness returning as he reaches down to support her foot with one hand and start casting with the other. "Hawke cared about the--many of you cared about the mages, but there was always other business to be done too. It felt like I was the only one watching the noose grow tighter, because I'd been the only one to see it before, elsewhere."
When he'd been driven out of the Wardens initially, for instance. That grudge has faded into a dull ache, but it still lingers.
"Merrill, by the way, is likely trying to figure out the secret of walking through those mirrors. There's a lot of them still intact or only partially damaged around Thedas. She was with the Inquisition for a time too. Fenris... he's somewhere around Kirkwall. I don't care to find out where. Some people don't mature. Isabela swung by as well, but you're right that she's vanished again, likely to the sea. Varric's at Skyhold; hopefully he'll be coming here." He pauses, finishing the easy repair work and straightening. Nothing broken means nothing too difficult.
"Bethany and Carver are here, though, and they were recently looking for Marion. I was helping elsewhere, or I would have gone with. And fuck Sebastian. He can pray to his crotch until he rots, but I do have fond dreams of an Ogre stepping on him."