How is it that Byerly finds himself perpetually surrounded by these young men who come from these viper pits and yet have no fangs at all? Honestly, what are they teaching them up in Tevinter? He's seen more subtlety from an Avvar.
Because it is something of a dangerous name, isn't it? Byerly reflects on that as he climbs gracefully enough out of the boat and offers Tavi his hand. The lad's father had been a rather valuable prisoner, after all. And someone on their side might get it into their head that Octavius knows about the man's whereabouts. Or could be used to draw him out. (Someone named James Flint, or perhaps even Yseult.)
"You could be Tavi Rutyer, if you'd like," By offers once they're both ashore. This might seem a strange suggestion, given that Octavius would never pass for a Fereldan, except that - "A great-great uncle of mine married a Tevinter woman. I think the Northern Rutyers live in the Qarinus area, actually - though you wouldn't have heard of them, as from what I've heard, my uncle's mundane blood was enough to deprive the family of magic. Soporati, now."
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Because it is something of a dangerous name, isn't it? Byerly reflects on that as he climbs gracefully enough out of the boat and offers Tavi his hand. The lad's father had been a rather valuable prisoner, after all. And someone on their side might get it into their head that Octavius knows about the man's whereabouts. Or could be used to draw him out. (Someone named James Flint, or perhaps even Yseult.)
"You could be Tavi Rutyer, if you'd like," By offers once they're both ashore. This might seem a strange suggestion, given that Octavius would never pass for a Fereldan, except that - "A great-great uncle of mine married a Tevinter woman. I think the Northern Rutyers live in the Qarinus area, actually - though you wouldn't have heard of them, as from what I've heard, my uncle's mundane blood was enough to deprive the family of magic. Soporati, now."