Well it's really more of a grenade, but I've known some crazy alchemists. You wouldn't be the first person who tried to throw one back instead of forward.

[Still, Varric cringes a bit as he watches this kid pluck one up. He doesn't step back much, he knows the distance limits on those pretty well, but he certainly leans away a bit.]

And yeah, hangings weren't...unheard of. Meredith liked the classics.

[But there's a dark topic.]

So you're a fan of whales? Whales are nice.

[Says Varric. Who probably only knows of them secondhand, at best. They're big fish that sing, right? Fish are generally not too terrible. Nobody tell him about predatory fish. Ever.]