"That's good." Colin isn't thrilled with the loss of innocents, but it was his innocents or someone else's, and he can't be totally impartial regarding the math, nor what it eventually added up to. And it's not like he was hearing much about the gruesome play-by-play. The Circles got increasingly insulated regarding outside news, toward the end. "I'm here as Inquisition merchant. Just a regular merchant. I'm not even telling people I'm a mage. I don't have to."