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6		6157231	So you married a templar, huh?
7		6157232	
8		6157234	What of it?
9		6157235	
10		6157237	Are they all as dirty as they seem?
11		6157238	
12		6157240	What?
13		6157241	
14		6157243	Did he ever ask you to play "the naughty mage and the hapless recruit." Maybe the "secret desire demon and the upstanding knight."
15		6157244	
16		6157246	That's disgusting!
17		6157247	
18		6157249	I hear it's quite popular.
19		6157250	Do you ever miss Ferelden?
20		6157251	
21		6157253	Of course! It was my home. I would never have left it willingly.
22		6157254	
23		6157256	But I'm not going to be my father, waste my entire life trying to recreate what I remember.
24		6157257	
25		6157259	I really didn't think I'd give it a second thought once I was gone. I mean, what did Ferelden ever do for me?
26		6157260	
27		6157262	But I do. I think about it. There's something here that just doesn't feel right.
28		6157263	
29		6157265	You mean how mages are treated?
30		6157266	
31		6157268	No... I think there's not enough dog shit.
32		6157269	So, I never expected to be palling around with the captain of the guard.
33		6157270	
34		6157272	We're not "pals."
35		6157273	
36		6157275	We're not? What about that time we painted each other's toenails?
37		6157276	
38		6157278	Do you want something?
39		6157279	
40		6157281	Love, life and liberty. What more does a man need?
41		6157282	
42		6157284	You're in a jolly mood.
43		6157285	
44		6157287	Well, when you're here, I know you're not leading men into Darktown to arrest me.
45		6157288	Can I ask you something, Aveline?
46		6157289	
47		6157291	I cannot look the other way when mages break the law—
48		6157292	
49		6157294	That's not what I was going to ask.
50		6157295	
51		6157297	There's a girl. A mage apprentice. She... was murdered in the Gallows recently. Have you heard anything of it?
52		6157298	
53		6157300	You mean the girl you killed.
54		6157301	
55		6157303	Yes. I'd like to... attend the funeral. Do something.
56		6157304	
57		6157306	The official templar report says she was killed by a demon of unknown origin.
58		6157307	
59		6157309	Let her family mourn her in peace.
60		6157310	I suppose you're just thrilled how the Knight-Commander's basically stepped into the Viscount's seat?
61		6157311	
62		6157313	It's not her place. They should have found an heir.
63		6157314	
64		6157316	Templars serve the Chantry. Leaving the Viscount's seat empty will just tempt people to fight for it.
65		6157317	
66		6157319	Well. You've got a brain in there after all.
67		6157320	
68		6157322	I'd been convinced that headband was to keep it from falling out.
69		6157323	Your husband agrees with me.
70		6157324	
71		6157326	About what?
72		6157327	
73		6157329	He thinks the Knight-Commander's mad. He told me she's been going behind your back to investigate guardsmen she suspects as secret mages.
74		6157330	
75		6157332	Why would he tell you that? When did you talk to him?
76		6157333	
77		6157335	He's not going to fight for her when the time comes. Would you turn against your own husband?
78		6157336	
79		6157338	You're out of your mind.
80		6157339	
81		6157341	You and the knight-commander deserve each other!
82		6157342	
83		6157343	
84		6157345	Where did you learn your magic?
85		6157346	
86		6157348	I mean, you know my feelings on the Circle, but usually it's the only decent training a mage can get.
87		6157349	
88		6157351	My father taught me. He was in the Circle once, got his training there. But he got away.
89		6157352	
90		6157354	You don't know how lucky you were, to grow up with someone who loved you <emp>and</emp> could help you. Most mages would kill for that.
91		6157355	
92		6157357	He was a little like you, I think.
93		6157358	The Rite of Tranquility is the whole problem. If they didn't have that to hold over us, we'd have so many more options.
94		6157359	
95		6157361	Right! If we want to fight back... or even just engage in intelligent debate... they make sure we can't do it anymore.
96		6157362	
97		6157364	They're forcing our hands. There's no way to change things peacefully.
98		6157365	
99		6157367	There must be something.
100		6157368	
101		6157370	If it's Tranqulity or death, we have to choose death, we have to make every struggle a life-and-death struggle.
102		6157371	
103		6157373	I know, I just... there are good people in the Circle, in the Chantry.
104		6157374	
105		6157376	There has to be a way to reason with them.
106		6157377	
107		6157379	Not if they take away your ability to reason.
108		6157380	
109		6157381	
110		6157383	I'm sorry about your sister. She sounds like a special girl.
111		6157384	
112		6157386	Why? Because she was a mage?
113		6157387	
114		6157389	Your brother says she had a good heart. She spent her life on the run but it never made her bitter.
115		6157390	
116		6157392	Your other sister says she was a good person. She never turned down a chance to help the needy.
117		6157393	
118		6157395	Yes, yes. I'm sure the Chantry's got a shrine with her portrait on it.
119		6157396	
120		6157398	I was trying to be nice!
121		6157399	
122		6157401	Stick to surly. It works for you.
123		6157402	What a beautiful day to be planning a nice trip into the Deep Roads, don't you think?
124		6157403	
125		6157405	The blight, the dampness, the festering darkness filled with tainted rats...
126		6157406	
127		6157408	Shut up.
128		6157409	
129		6157411	You've got a real chip on your shoulder, you know?
130		6157412	
131		6157414	I've got a big <emp>sword</emp> on my shoulder, magey.
132		6157415	
133		6157417	I'd noticed that. I wonder what you're compensating for.
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221		6157518	
222		6157520	So, you were in the Circle and ran away. I don't know if I'd be brave enough to do that.
223		6157521	
224		6157523	What do you mean? You've been an apostate your whole life.
225		6157524	
226		6157526	Exactly. It was never anything I had to work for.
227		6157527	
228		6157529	Other people always took all the risks to keep me free.
229		6157530	I know it didn't work the way you thought it would, but... I think it was brave, what you did with Justice.
230		6157531	
231		6157533	It was meant well. I don't know if that's enough to forgive it.
232		6157534	
233		6157536	It must have been hard for him, being trapped outside the Fade. In a place where no one's like him.
234		6157537	
235		6157539	I bet he appreciated having a friend.
236		6157540	
237		6157542	He did.
238		6157543	
239		6157544	
240		6157546	Was Wesley based out of the Chantry in Lothering? I don't remember ever seeing him there.
241		6157547	
242		6157549	He served elsewhere. He was coming to find me at Ostagar.
243		6157550	
244		6157552	Were you that familiar with every templar in Lothering?
245		6157553	
246		6157555	How else was I supposed to know when to run and hide?
247		6157556	Being a guardsman seems like a better life than being a soldier.
248		6157557	
249		6157559	Oh?
250		6157560	
251		6157562	My brother was a soldier. It's all about taking land and serving some king you've never met.
252		6157563	
253		6157565	Guardsmen, they do something <emp>real</emp>. They protect people. Real people. They make their lives better.
254		6157566	
255		6157568	Not many people would see it that way.
256		6157569	
257		6157571	Neither would my brother.
258		6157572	How come you and Wesley never had children? I mean, sorry if that's a personal—
259		6157573	
260		6157575	It's all right.
261		6157576	
262		6157578	My father always told me I was the son he'd never had. He never wanted me playing with "girl" things.
263		6157579	
264		6157581	It was hard enough to convince myself to wear a dress at my wedding. I can't imagine being pregnant.
265		6157582	
266		6157584	Now that he's gone, do you ever wish—
267		6157585	
268		6157587	<emp>That's</emp> too personal.
269		6157588	
270		6157589	
271		6157591	Do you ever miss Tevinter?
272		6157592	
273		6157594	I was a slave!
274		6157595	
275		6157597	Still, it was your home, right? The only one you remember?
276		6157598	
277		6157600	Does it ever feel strange not to be there?
278		6157601	
279		6157603	Never! Sometimes. That does not mean I would go back.
280		6157604	So, the magister put lyrium <emp>in</emp> your skin?
281		6157605	
282		6157607	So I am told.
283		6157608	
284		6157610	Does it hurt?
285		6157611	
286		6157613	All the time.
287		6157614	
288		6157615	
289		6157617	What were you before you were a pirate?
290		6157618	
291		6157620	I had a husband. He didn't beat me, that's about the best I can say about it.
292		6157621	
293		6157623	So you left him?
294		6157624	
295		6157626	He was murdered. By my lover. It was all very... Antivan.
296		6157627	
297		6157629	Oh. I don't think I'd like to live in Antiva.
298		6157630	
299		6157631	
300		6157633	I guess you've been with a lot of men.
301		6157634	
302		6157636	Men. Women. Elves. A dwarf in drag once, but I don't recommend that.
303		6157637	
304		6157639	Oh.
305		6157640	
306		6157642	Aw... You're blushing! Why? How many lovers have you had?
307		6157643	
308		6157645	I-I never—
309		6157646	
310		6157648	You're a virgin? Hawke, you've been holding out on the poor girl! Get her a night at the Blooming Rose. On me!
311		6157649	
312		6157651	That's, um, very generous.
313		6157652	
314		6157654	I'm a giver.
315		6157655	
316		6157656	
317		6157658	So, there's no Circle among the Dalish?
318		6157659	
319		6157661	Any child with the gift of magic is apprenticed to a Keeper. In another clan if there's no need in her own.
320		6157662	
321		6157664	That sounds nice.
322		6157665	
323		6157667	Magic is a gift of the Creators. Why wouldn't we use it?
324		6157668	
325		6157670	It just seems... wasteful for humans to lock their mages away where they can't do anyone any good.
326		6157671	
327		6157673	Of course, you're a blood mage.
328		6157674	
329		6157676	Oh. Right.
330		6157677	But... you are a blood mage, right?
331		6157678	So, is the Keeper... your mother?
332		6157679	
333		6157681	I left my clan when I was a child. To become Marethari's First.
334		6157682	
335		6157684	I haven't seen my parents in more than ten years.
336		6157685	
337		6157687	I'm so sorry! My father died in the Blight. You must really miss them.
338		6157688	
339		6157690	I remember my mother singing to me, when I was a little girl and I'd get sick. I think that's what I miss the most.
340		6157691	
341		6157693	The Keeper has a terrible singing voice.
342		6157694	
343		6157695	
344		6157697	You don't seem to like your brother very much.
345		6157698	
346		6157700	And here I thought it took blood magic to read minds.
347		6157701	
348		6157703	I had a twin brother, Carver. He used to nail my braid to the bed while I was sleeping.
349		6157704	
350		6157706	I never thought I'd miss him this much.
351		6157707	
352		6157709	Sorry about your brother.
353		6157710	
354		6157712	Hey, you want mine? I've got a spare...
355		6157713	Do you ever wish you lived in Orzammar?
356		6157714	
357		6157716	Great ancestors, no! You know what Orzammar is?
358		6157717	
359		6157719	It's cramped tunnels, filled with nug-shit and body-odor. 
360		6157720	
361		6157722	And every person there thinks he's better than you because his great-great-great grandfather made a water-clock or something.
362		6157723	
363		6157725	But they're your people. Don't you even wonder what it would be like?
364		6157726	
365		6157728	Hey, I've got a good imagination. Why would I waste it on that?
366		6157729	
367		6157730	
368		6157732	
369		6157733	
370		6157735	
371		6157736	
372		6157738	What are you looking at, Anders?
373		6157739	
374		6157741	Your sisters are... were both mages, as was your father?
375		6157742	
376		6157744	Your brother is a mage. As were your sister and father?
377		6157745	
378		6157747	And I'm not. What of it?
379		6157748	
380		6157750	Nothing, it's not always passed to all siblings. But it is good to know you understand our plight.
381		6157751	
382		6157753	Shove your plight.
383		6157754	
384		6157755	
385		6157757	You don't like me, Carver?
386		6157758	
387		6157760	I don't like you.
388		6157761	
389		6157763	That's unfortunate. Hating someone just because they're a mage should be a shameful thing.
390		6157764	
391		6157766	I don't hate you because you're a mage. I hate you because you won't shut up about it.
392		6157767	
393		6157769	Oppression this, templars that. I'd heard enough long before you.
394		6157770	
395		6157772	Maybe it's time you put some <emp>thought</emp> into it.
396		6157773	
397		6157774	
398		6157776	
399		6157777	
400		6157779	Tell me, how did your family escape Lothering? Almost everyone who hadn't fled...
401		6157780	
402		6157782	My brother. If he wasn't with us, I don't think we'd be here.
403		6157783	
404		6157785	My older sister. If she wasn't with us, I don't think we'd be here.
405		6157786	
406		6157788	But you seem quite skilled as well.
407		6157789	
408		6157791	I'm not my brother.
409		6157792	
410		6157794	I'm not my sister.
411		6157795	
412		6157797	
413		6157798	
414		6157800	Did you approve my application?
415		6157801	
416		6157803	I can't make you a guard, Carver.
417		6157804	
418		6157806	We were both soldiers. Why won't they take me?
419		6157807	
420		6157809	I was an officer. And I follow orders.
421		6157810	
422		6157812	<desc>Laughs</desc> No you don't.
423		6157813	
424		6157815	I also think of others before myself. You seem tired of that, and that's dangerous.
425		6157816	
426		6157818	Just when it's not my choice. You told them not to take me, didn't you.
427		6157819	
428		6157821	Yes.
429		6157822	
430		6157823	
431		6157825	I'm surprised you still travel with us, Aveline.
432		6157826	
433		6157828	Carver, don't.
434		6157829	
435		6157831	You're ever so busy with the guardsmen. It must be a burden to slum with the refugees.
436		6157832	
437		6157834	It's oddly comforting that you insult me like I'm family.
438		6157835	
439		6157837	That wasn't... no, I didn't mean that.
440		6157838	
441		6157840	I know. But you should be glad that's how I took it.
442		6157841	
443		6157842	
444		6157844	
445		6157845	
446		6157847	You're very different from other elves.
447		6157848	
448		6157850	Oh? You know them all?
449		6157851	
450		6157853	No. I just... you look different, there's no denying that.
451		6157854	
452		6157856	It is what I am. And unlike the problems you claim to have, I really did have no choice.
453		6157857	
454		6157859	Do we know anyone who isn't brooding every hour of the day?
455		6157860	
456		6157862	Like attracts like, it seems.
457		6157863	
458		6157864	
459		6157866	You know, Fenris, I have a tattoo.
460		6157867	
461		6157869	You have a what?
462		6157870	
463		6157872	A tattoo. A lot of us got them before Ostagar. It's a mabari. For strength.
464		6157873	
465		6157875	Does it curse you with the ability to reach into a man and tear out his insides?
466		6157876	
467		6157878	Uh. I can make it bark.
468		6157879	
469		6157881	Please don't.
470		6157882	
471		6157884	Seconded.
472		6157885	
473		6157887	Yes. Refrain.
474		6157888	
475		6157890	Agreed.
476		6157891	
477		6157893	Rather see it wag.
478		6157894	
479		6157896	That's... eww.
480		6157897	
481		6157899	
482		6157900	
483		6157901	
484		6157903	
485		6157904	
486		6157906	So, Isabela. You captained a ship? That's a lot of men under you. In your command.
487		6157907	
488		6157909	Well aren't you just adorable fumbling for a topic.
489		6157910	
490		6157912	You say that like I'm harmless.
491		6157913	
492		6157915	As harmless as a pup that will someday grow into its fangs and sink them deep.
493		6157916	
494		6157918	Sure, keep teasing. I'll show you how much of a pup I am.
495		6157919	
496		6157921	I know. That's why I do it.
497		6157922	
498		6157923	
499		6157925	I saw you at the Blooming Rose the other night.
500		6157926	
501		6157928	What? No you didn't.
502		6157929	
503		6157931	I suppose someone else stole your chin to romance Faith.
504		6157932	
505		6157934	Pfft. That's unlikely, she wasn't even working.
506		6157935	
507		6157937	Mm hmm. Got you.
508		6157938	
509		6157940	Carver!
510		6157941	
511		6157943	Oh ho! Nicely done.
512		6157944	
513		6157946	I don't get it.
514		6157947	
515		6157949	Carver, I'm shocked.
516		6157950	
517		6157952	You're just... that's not what I... Shit!
518		6157953	
519		6157954	
520		6157956	
521		6157957	
522		6157959	So, you're not like a lot of other girls.
523		6157960	
524		6157962	No, I'm an elf.
525		6157963	
526		6157965	Right. All right then.
527		6157966	
528		6157968	Oh! You were trying... was that dirty? Did I miss something dirty?
529		6157969	
530		6157971	What? No! It wasn't dirty. It wasn't anything.
531		6157972	
532		6157974	Oh. Right.
533		6157975	
534		6157977	Because I miss a lot of dirty things and sometimes I wouldn't mind to hear them. <desc>Nervous Laugh</desc>
535		6157978	
536		6157980	Would you now?
537		6157981	
538		6157982	
539		6157984	Your people came a long way, Merrill, but I'd like to think we have Ferelden in common.
540		6157985	
541		6157987	I never saw Lothering. Did you walk as much as we did? Probably more, you didn't start with halla. Our ship stunk.
542		6157988	
543		6157990	Your ship?
544		6157991	
545		6157993	There was something foul in the hold. I can still smell it.
546		6157994	
547		6157996	Oh. Well, that must have been unpleasant.
548		6157997	
549		6157999	It was.
550		6158000	
551		6158002	Did I miss another dirty thing?
552		6158003	
553		6158005	No!
554		6158006	
555		6158007	
556		6158009	
557		6158010	
558		6158012	Varric.
559		6158013	
560		6158015	Carver.
561		6158016	
562		6158018	Still claiming you're helping while burying us in debt to your brother?
563		6158019	
564		6158021	Still riding side-saddle while bitching at your betters?
565		6158022	
566		6158024	Drinks later?
567		6158025	
568		6158027	Never miss 'em.
569		6158028	
570		6158029	
571		6158031	Stop watching me, Varric.
572		6158032	
573		6158034	What's your issue now, little Hawke?
574		6158035	
575		6158037	Don't call... just don't, all right? You're looking for fodder for your stories.
576		6158038	
577		6158040	You think you're that interesting?
578		6158041	
579		6158043	 I have enough trouble being overshadowed as it is.
580		6158044	
581		6158046	I don't need to get caught under an imaginary <attrib>me</attrib>, too.
582		6158047	
583		6158049	Don't you worry. I'm not in the business of lullabies or children's stories.
584		6158050	
585		6158052	
586		6158053	
587		6158055	
588		6158056	
589		6158058	
590		6158059	
591		6158061	Did I hear correctly? You are an abomination?
592		6158062	
593		6158064	Why don't you shout it out? I don't think everyone heard you.
594		6158065	
595		6158067	Do you see yourself as harmless, then? An abomination who would never harm anyone?
596		6158068	
597		6158070	You mean like ripping someone's heart out of their chest?
598		6158071	
599		6158073	I did that at the behest of no demon.
600		6158074	
601		6158076	So it doesn't take a demon for someone to be a terrible killer? Good we agree.
602		6158077	
603		6158079	
604		6158080	
605		6158082	What did your friend do to be made tranquil? Do you know?
606		6158083	
607		6158085	No, and it doesn't matter. Nobody deserves that.
608		6158086	
609		6158088	I know some mages who deserve that.
610		6158089	
611		6158091	Really? So what if they started making slaves tranquil? Then they wouldn't dream of escape! Wouldn't that be wonderful?
612		6158092	
613		6158094	A slave does not attract demons that try to possess him.
614		6158095	
615		6158097	Which clearly justifies it? What a wonderful solution!
616		6158098	
617		6158100	
618		6158101	
619		6158103	You should have lived in Tevinter. You'd be happier, there.
620		6158104	
621		6158106	From the sounds of it, you're probably right.
622		6158107	
623		6158109	There your magic would be a mark of honor. Apprenticed to the right magister you would do well.
624		6158110	
625		6158112	Is there a down side?
626		6158113	
627		6158115	Only if you don't mind owning a few slaves and performing the occasional blood ritual.
628		6158116	
629		6158118	So they <emp>all</emp> do those things?
630		6158119	
631		6158121	Only the ones who don't complain about how powerless and persecuted they are.
632		6158122	
633		6158124	
634		6158125	
635		6158127	I seem to recall you saying something a few years ago...
636		6158128	
637		6158130	Shut up.
638		6158131	
639		6158133	"I can control it." Isn't that what you said?
640		6158134	
641		6158136	So help me...
642		6158137	
643		6158139	
644		6158140	
645		6158142	You must see by now what an injustice the templars are, I hope.
646		6158143	
647		6158145	Must I see that? I see templars trying to control what they have good reason to fear.
648		6158146	
649		6158148	But they go too far.
650		6158149	
651		6158151	Ask Hawke what happened to his mother, and who went "too far".
652		6158152	
653		6158154	Ask Hawke what happened to her mother, and who went "too far".
654		6158155	
655		6158157	You can't hold all mages responsible for that!
656		6158158	
657		6158160	It doesn't take <emp>all</emp> mages to cause this. It only takes the weak.
658		6158161	
659		6158163	
660		6158164	
661		6158166	Not <emp>all</emp> mages are weak.
662		6158167	
663		6158169	That's true. Hawke is not weak, for instance.
664		6158170	
665		6158172	That's true. Bethany was not weak, for instance.
666		6158173	
667		6158175	I notice you specifically do not mention me.
668		6158176	
669		6158178	That's true.
670		6158179	
671		6158181	I am not weak, either. I'll prove it to you.
672		6158182	
673		6158184	Prove it to yourself. You're convincing no-one.
674		6158185	
675		6158187	
676		6158188	
677		6158190	
678		6158191	
679		6158193	You are... living with Hawke, now?
680		6158194	
681		6158196	What's it to you?
682		6158197	
683		6158199	Be good to him. Break his heart and I will kill you.
684		6158200	
685		6158202	Be good to her. Break her heart and I will kill you.
686		6158203	
687		6158205	
688		6158206	
689		6158208	
690		6158209	
691		6158211	I understand you're named after a famous knight?
692		6158212	
693		6158214	Not this again. Everyone always brings up the name.
694		6158215	
695		6158217	I've not heard of Ser Aveline before. Is she very famous?
696		6158218	
697		6158220	Really? They don't tell of her glorious downfall in Tevinter?
698		6158221	
699		6158223	Not to slaves.
700		6158224	
701		6158226	Pardon me for saying so, then, but thank the Maker for <emp>that</emp>.
702		6158227	
703		6158229	
704		6158230	
705		6158232	You do not like your name?
706		6158233	
707		6158235	My name is a wish my father made. And I did want to be a knight, but...
708		6158236	
709		6158238	I see. Still, it's a good name. A strong name.
710		6158239	
711		6158241	What were you named after?
712		6158242	
713		6158244	I don't know what my real name is. My master called me Fenris, his "little wolf".
714		6158245	
715		6158247	Could you not call yourself something different now?
716		6158248	
717		6158250	Couldn't you?
718		6158251	
719		6158253	A fine point.
720		6158254	
721		6158256	
722		6158257	
723		6158259	So it must feel good to be captain of the guard, yes?
724		6158260	
725		6158262	No, I will not change the patrols around your mansion again. There's already been too many questions.
726		6158263	
727		6158265	You wound my pride with such accusations.
728		6158266	
729		6158268	But you were going to ask.
730		6158269	
731		6158271	Eventually.
732		6158272	
733		6158274	<desc>Laughs</desc> I'll take a look at the roster and see what I can do.
734		6158275	
735		6158277	
736		6158278	
737		6158280	I was speaking to Donnic the other day...
738		6158281	
739		6158283	Since when do you speak to my husband?
740		6158284	
741		6158286	He... comes to the mansion once a week? We play diamondback.
742		6158287	
743		6158289	What? And why am I not invited to these games?
744		6158290	
745		6158292	He says you get angry when you lose.
746		6158293	
747		6158295	I do not! All right, perhaps I do. That's no reason not to tell me.
748		6158296	
749		6158298	Perhaps he longed for less masculine companionship?
750		6158299	
751		6158301	Shut up, whore.
752		6158302	
753		6158304	It is if he's a betting man.
754		6158305	
755		6158307	I disavow all knowledge of gambling occurring in my household.
756		6158308	
757		6158310	He's a good man, Aveline. I enjoy his visits.
758		6158311	
759		6158313	Fine, fine. Have your "man time", then.
760		6158314	
761		6158316	
762		6158317	
763		6158319	I wanted to thank you for that tip you gave me, Fenris.
764		6158320	
765		6158322	You caught them, then?
766		6158323	
767		6158325	Slave runners working out of the Undercity, yes. A whole nest.
768		6158326	
769		6158328	I imagine you imprisoned them?
770		6158329	
771		6158331	They never made it to prison, sadly. Not that I gave them the option.
772		6158332	
773		6158334	You always know how to make me smile, Aveline.
774		6158335	
775		6158337	
776		6158338	
777		6158340	
778		6158341	
779		6158343	You've been an apostate your whole life, then?
780		6158344	
781		6158346	Like my father before me. What of it?
782		6158347	
783		6158349	Didn't your family consider that dangerous?
784		6158350	
785		6158352	There are mages who go through their whole lives without ever falling prey to a demon. Many of them, in fact.
786		6158353	
787		6158355	And if the templars came looking for you? That would not be danger enough?
788		6158356	
789		6158358	Perhaps there shouldn't <emp>be</emp> any templars.
790		6158359	
791		6158361	
792		6158362	
793		6158364	You know, you cannot wish the templars away.
794		6158365	
795		6158367	I can try.
796		6158368	
797		6158370	Is the Circle here truly so terrible an option?
798		6158371	
799		6158373	Do you really have to ask that?
800		6158374	
801		6158376	You would be kept safe-- from others, as well as from yourself. And they would be kept safe from you.
802		6158377	
803		6158379	I... didn't ask for this.
804		6158380	
805		6158382	Nobody asks for their fate.
806		6158383	
807		6158385	
808		6158386	
809		6158388	
810		6158389	
811		6158391	So... this master of yours wants your markings back? Skin and all?
812		6158392	
813		6158394	So his hunters told me. Unwillingly.
814		6158395	
815		6158397	So why not cover them up? Wouldn't that make you harder to find?
816		6158398	
817		6158400	Let them come. I am not one to hide.
818		6158401	
819		6158403	Still, if it were me--
820		6158404	
821		6158406	It's not.
822		6158407	
823		6158409	
824		6158410	
825		6158412	So you've really never thought of hiding from those hunters?
826		6158413	
827		6158415	To what end?
828		6158416	
829		6158418	So you could, I don't know, have a life?
830		6158419	
831		6158421	What life do you have? There are no hunters after you at all.
832		6158422	
833		6158424	I have a life!
834		6158425	
835		6158427	One that you complain about. We are not always free to do as we wish, as you should well know.
836		6158428	
837		6158430	I do have a life.
838		6158431	
839		6158433	Then I stand corrected.
840		6158434	
841		6158436	
842		6158437	
843		6158439	
844		6158440	
845		6158442	I enjoy a man with markings like that.
846		6158443	
847		6158445	You've enjoyed many, I suspect.
848		6158446	
849		6158448	Where I come from, they're called "tattoos". Sailors get them all the time.
850		6158449	
851		6158451	Not made of lyrium, I'd imagine.
852		6158452	
853		6158454	Not a one. And the pictures are different-- usually breasts.
854		6158455	
855		6158457	I suppose a pair of lyrium breasts tattooed onto my chest would make things better.
856		6158458	
857		6158460	That's me. I'm a helper.
858		6158461	
859		6158463	
860		6158464	
861		6158466	So this relic you mentioned losing...
862		6158467	
863		6158469	You have pretty eyes.
864		6158470	
865		6158472	I... have pretty eyes.
866		6158473	
867		6158475	You elves have such pretty eyes, even the men. It makes me want to pluck them out and wear them as a necklace.
868		6158476	
869		6158478	I wouldn't suggest trying.
870		6158479	
871		6158481	Oh, I would never try. Not without reason, of course.
872		6158482	
873		6158484	Forget I said anything.
874		6158485	
875		6158487	
876		6158488	
877		6158490	You keep staring at me. Is it my eyes again?
878		6158491	
879		6158493	You're very lanky, for an elf. I like lanky.
880		6158494	
881		6158496	From what I gather, you like a lot of things.
882		6158497	
883		6158499	Nonsense. But when I see something I like, I go after it.
884		6158500	
885		6158502	I suggest keeping your distance.
886		6158503	
887		6158505	Now you're just making it challenging.
888		6158506	
889		6158508	Do you intend to go after me, then?
890		6158509	
891		6158511	Will you take off all that spiky armor you're wearing?
892		6158512	
893		6158514	It's been known to happen.
894		6158515	
895		6158517	Then forget it.
896		6158518	
897		6158520	
898		6158521	
899		6158523	So what duties did you have? As a slave, I mean?
900		6158524	
901		6158526	Not this again.
902		6158527	
903		6158529	I heard that Tevinter slaves are kept oiled so they glisten. Did your master oil you up? Did you glisten for him?
904		6158530	
905		6158532	I was his bodyguard.
906		6158533	
907		6158535	Always close at hand. Always within reach. Glistening.
908		6158536	
909		6158538	You have an entire story written in your head already, don't you?
910		6158539	
911		6158541	Mmmm.
912		6158542	
913		6158544	
914		6158545	
915		6158547	So you engaged a Qunari dreadnought in battle?
916		6158548	
917		6158550	They engaged <emp>me</emp> in battle. I was just trying to get away.
918		6158551	
919		6158553	Sailing into the storm was a gamble. Took care of the dreadnaught, but it did us in too. Can't win them all.
920		6158554	
921		6158556	Where I come from, we would call that insanity.
922		6158557	
923		6158559	Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
924		6158560	
925		6158562	
926		6158563	
927		6158565	I still can't believe Hawke saved you.
928		6158566	
929		6158568	You've been saying that for years. Would you have turned me over to the qunari?
930		6158569	
931		6158571	No, but I know what they do to their prisoners.
932		6158572	
933		6158574	Execute them horribly, I imagine.
934		6158575	
935		6158577	The qunari waste nothing. They would re-educate you into a loyal follower of the Qun.
936		6158578	
937		6158580	Pfft. Could I refuse?
938		6158581	
939		6158583	There's always qamek, which turns you into a mindless laborer. Like I said, they waste nothing.
940		6158584	
941		6158586	Oh.
942		6158587	
943		6158589	If you wish to thank Hawke, he's standing right there.
944		6158590	
945		6158592	If you wish to thank Hawke, she's standing right there.
946		6158593	
947		6158595	
948		6158596	
949		6158598	
950		6158599	
951		6158601	Why are you watching me like that?
952		6158602	
953		6158604	You have vallaslin. The same markings that the Dalish have.
954		6158605	
955		6158607	Yours are not made of lyrium.
956		6158608	
957		6158610	No, they're made of blood. Our blood. That's what vallaslin means: "blood-writing". It's a mark of adulthood.
958		6158611	
959		6158613	Mine were carved into my flesh against my will, in a ritual I remember only for the agony it caused me.
960		6158614	
961		6158616	I'm... so sorry.
962		6158617	
963		6158619	
964		6158620	
965		6158622	I don't want your pity.
966		6158623	
967		6158625	Are you talking to me?
968		6158626	
969		6158628	You said you were sorry about the ritual I endured. Keep your sorrow.
970		6158629	
971		6158631	I only meant--
972		6158632	
973		6158634	You have all the freedom none of our kind enjoy, and you throw it away. On what? 
974		6158635	
975		6158637	Our people need to reclaim their heritage.
976		6158638	
977		6158640	A heritage of defeat? To what end?
978		6158641	
979		6158643	Would you truly turn your back on your own history? There's so much we don't know...
980		6158644	
981		6158646	It's not my history. It's simply history.
982		6158647	
983		6158649	
984		6158650	
985		6158652	You never come to the alienage, Fenris.
986		6158653	
987		6158655	I don't live in the alienage.
988		6158656	
989		6158658	Don't you care about the plight of our people? Not even a little bit?
990		6158659	
991		6158661	I don't need to visit the alienage to know what they suffer. I know it better than you.
992		6158662	
993		6158664	I've lived there for years! I see it first-hand!
994		6158665	
995		6158667	And I lived it.
996		6158668	
997		6158670	
998		6158671	
999		6158673	Avert your eyes, witch.
1000	6158674	
1001	6158676	You said I was dwelling on "useless" history, but what are <emp>you</emp> doing?
1002	6158677	
1003	6158679	The past is important, to you and to all of us. We must know it to move forward.
1004	6158680	
1005	6158682	Yet I have made no deal with a demon to learn of <emp>my</emp> past.
1006	6158683	
1007	6158685	You had a life. You had a family. And you abandoned them to chase after ghosts.
1008	6158686	
1009	6158688	We are nothing alike. Don't even begin to think that we are.
1010	6158689	
1011	6158691	
1012	6158692	
1013	6158694	You are more naive than I thought.
1014	6158695	
1015	6158697	What have I done to you <emp>now</emp>?
1016	6158698	
1017	6158700	To me? Nothing. Not yet.
1018	6158701	
1019	6158703	To yourself-- you can't even begin to imagine the number of mages that have walked down the path you're now on.
1020	6158704	
1021	6158706	My clan didn't believe in me. If you don't believe in me either, I won't mind.
1022	6158707	
1023	6158709	
1024	6158710	
1025	6158712	Your master must have been a terrible man, to make you hate mages so.
1026	6158713	
1027	6158715	He <emp>is</emp> a terrible man. He's not dead.
1028	6158716	
1029	6158718	He was. Now he's dead.
1030	6158719	
1031	6158721	We're not all like him.
1032	6158722	
1033	6158724	How often I hear that, and yet how often I find it's not true.
1034	6158725	
1035	6158727	The Keepers are different. They exist to preserve the old ways, and to protect our people.
1036	6158728	
1037	6158730	And none of them would ever fall prey to a demon. Or perform blood magic.
1038	6158731	
1039	6158733	It's impossible to talk to you.
1040	6158734	
1041	6158736	
1042	6158737	
1043	6158739	This... Keeper of yours. She was a friend?
1044	6158740	
1045	6158742	She was like a mother to me. To all of us.
1046	6158743	
1047	6158745	Then I'm sorry.
1048	6158746	
1049	6158748	No you're not. She's just one more mage to you. Why would <emp>you</emp> be sorry she's dead?
1050	6158749	
1051	6158751	I'm not sorry she's dead. I'm only sorry she died for you.
1052	6158752	
1053	6158754	What?
1054	6158755	
1055	6158757	Let's hope the sacrifice of someone who cared for you that much isn't wasted.
1056	6158758	
1057	6158760	
1058	6158761	
1059	6158763	
1060	6158764	
1061	6158766	I thought all dwarves had beards. Where's yours?
1062	6158767	
1063	6158769	I misplaced it, along with my sense of dwarven pride and my gold-plated noble caste pin.
1064	6158770	
1065	6158772	I thought maybe it fell onto your chest.
1066	6158773	
1067	6158775	Oh-ho! The broody elf tells a joke!
1068	6158776	
1069	6158778	I don't brood.
1070	6158779	
1071	6158781	Friend, if your brooding were any more impressive woman would swoon as you passed. They'd have broody babies in your honor.
1072	6158782	
1073	6158784	You're a very odd dwarf.
1074	6158785	
1075	6158787	And you thought I was joking about the pin.
1076	6158788	
1077	6158790	
1078	6158791	
1079	6158793	So where's <emp>your</emp> beard, elf?
1080	6158794	
1081	6158796	Elves don't grow beards.
1082	6158797	
1083	6158799	Huh. I thought maybe you'd shaved it off in a fit of broody pique.
1084	6158800	
1085	6158802	So you're a funny dwarf.
1086	6158803	
1087	6158805	
1088	6158806	
1089	6158808	So you found your brother.
1090	6158809	
1091	6158811	I did! Wasn't expecting that.
1092	6158812	
1093	6158814	I assume there was a time when you and he were friends?
1094	6158815	
1095	6158817	With Bartrand? No, just brothers. Occasionally he wasn't insufferable.
1096	6158818	
1097	6158820	And yet you remained at his side.
1098	6158821	
1099	6158823	Too bad he didn't do the same.
1100	6158824	
1101	6158826	
1102	6158827	
1103	6158829	You know, if you need advice on how to lay low I can give you some.
1104	6158830	
1105	6158832	Being short would make for an excellent start, I suspect.
1106	6158833	
1107	6158835	Keep that up, serah, and you can keep on hiding like a rank amateur.
1108	6158836	
1109	6158838	What would you suggest, Varric? Cower in the shadows like a rat?
1110	6158839	
1111	6158841	You could try wearing something that didn't scream "I hate you all I was a slave".
1112	6158842	
1113	6158844	The markings would still show.
1114	6158845	
1115	6158847	Really? Through anything? That's... kind of cool.
1116	6158848	
1117	6158850	
1118	6158851	
1119	6158853	So who is "Bianca"?
1120	6158854	
1121	6158856	My crossbow. Say hello, Bianca.
1122	6158857	
1123	6158859	But why Bianca? You must have named her after someone.
1124	6158860	
1125	6158862	Nope. Mirabelle was taken.
1126	6158863	
1127	6158865	The way you fondle your weapon is disturbing.
1128	6158866	
1129	6158868	Hey! I'm a perfect gentleman. In public.
1130	6158869	
1131	6158871	
1132	6158872	
1133	6158874	I notice you hardly ever comment on mages and templars and such.
1134	6158875	
1135	6158877	It's a lot of humans in skirts. I get them mixed up.
1136	6158878	
1137	6158880	I highly doubt that. The subject comes up all the time.
1138	6158881	
1139	6158883	Tell me about it.
1140	6158884	
1141	6158886	And no opinion? One way or the other?
1142	6158887	
1143	6158889	Opinions are like testicles. You kick them hard enough, doesn't matter how many you got.
1144	6158890	
1145	6158892	That's... something.
1146	6158893	
1147	6158895	
1148	6158896	
1149	6158898	
1150	6158899	
1151	6158901	
1152	6158902	
1153	6158904	Hello? Is Anders there? Can I speak to Anders?
1154	6158905	
1155	6158907	You can stop yelling now. It's always me.
1156	6158908	
1157	6158910	Oh, good. I didn't want to talk to that other guy. You know. The stick-in-the-mud.
1158	6158911	
1159	6158913	He can still hear you. Justice and I are one.
1160	6158914	
1161	6158916	Anyway, you wanted to talk to me?
1162	6158917	
1163	6158919	Not really. I just wanted to make sure it was you.
1164	6158920	
1165	6158922	
1166	6158923	
1167	6158925	I've been thinking about it, and you seem very familiar. It's like I've seen you somewhere before.
1168	6158926	
1169	6158928	I get that a lot.
1170	6158929	
1171	6158931	I've even been told I resemble the King of Ferelden.
1172	6158932	
1173	6158934	Now that you mention it... Hmm, have you ever thought about using that to make a little coin?
1174	6158935	
1175	6158937	I know where this is going, and no.
1176	6158938	
1177	6158940	That's a shame. There must be women out there who'd love to hold the royal sceptre, even if it's just a look-alike.
1178	6158941	
1179	6158943	Have you ever been to the Pearl? In Denerim?
1180	6158944	
1181	6158946	Perhaps, in another life.
1182	6158947	
1183	6158949	I knew it! I've seen you there, haven't I?
1184	6158950	
1185	6158952	I admit to nothing.
1186	6158953	
1187	6158955	
1188	6158956	
1189	6158958	So this relic you lost... how is it you don't know what it is?
1190	6158959	
1191	6158961	It was in a box.
1192	6158962	
1193	6158964	And you didn't open it? <emp>You</emp> managed to resist the urge to open a box to see what it contained?
1194	6158965	
1195	6158967	It was locked! It was a locked box!
1196	6158968	
1197	6158970	That hasn't stopped you before.
1198	6158971	
1199	6158973	What do you want me to say?
1200	6158974	
1201	6158976	Hmm, nothing. I just found it curious, that's all.
1202	6158977	
1203	6158979	
1204	6158980	
1205	6158982	Isabela, do you even have an opinion about the mages?
1206	6158983	
1207	6158985	Sure, I have an opinion. I don't feel a constant need to bring it up, however.
1208	6158986	
1209	6158988	Humor me, please.
1210	6158989	
1211	6158991	Fine.<desc>Sighs</desc> Mages don't worry me. I don't believe the templars when they say I should be worried.
1212	6158992	
1213	6158994	I believe I'm more likely to be shanked in a bar, than eaten by an abomination. You can hear an abomination coming a mile away.
1214	6158995	
1215	6158997	"Grrr. Arrrrgghh!" "Oh, is that an abomination coming to eat us? We should get out of here!"
1216	6158998	
1217	6159000	Abominations don't go, "Grrr. Arrgh."
1218	6159001	
1219	6159003	They don't? I should rethink the whole thing then.
1220	6159004	
1221	6159006	
1222	6159007	
1223	6159009	I don't know how you live the way you do, blithely ignoring the consequences of your actions.
1224	6159010	
1225	6159012	This is about the qunari thing, isn't it? I'm not "blithely ignoring" what happened. I just recognize that it happened years ago.
1226	6159013	
1227	6159015	There's this fantastic thing called "moving on." You should try it sometime.
1228	6159016	
1229	6159018	Has it occured to you that Kirkwall is only just recovering from the qunari attack?
1230	6159019	
1231	6159021	And you want me to... what? Flog myself daily about it?
1232	6159022	
1233	6159024	Has it occured to you that maybe there's no justice in the world? Except for that voice you keep in your head?
1234	6159025	
1235	6159027	
1236	6159028	
1237	6159030	There is justice in the world.
1238	6159031	
1239	6159033	Oh, is there? You want to free the mages. Let's say you do. Let's say you kill a bunch of innocent people while doing so.
1240	6159034	
1241	6159036	What about justice for those innocent people? Don't they deserve justice just as much as the mages?
1242	6159037	
1243	6159039	Yes.
1244	6159040	
1245	6159042	And then what? Where does it end?
1246	6159043	
1247	6159045	It's like being in a bar brawl, with people continuously being drawn into the fray until no one remembers why it started.
1248	6159046	
1249	6159048	Justice is an idea. It makes sense in a world of ideas, and not in ours.
1250	6159049	
1251	6159051	
1252	6159052	
1253	6159054	
1254	6159055	
1255	6159057	Do men find you intimidating? What about Wesley? Did he think you were intimidating?
1256	6159058	
1257	6159060	Isabela...
1258	6159061	
1259	6159063	What? Too soon?
1260	6159064	
1261	6159066	Too soon, too inappropriate, too personal. Too... everything!
1262	6159067	
1263	6159069	Ooh, sore spot, huh?
1264	6159070	
1265	6159072	If you don't shut up, all that's left of you will be a sore spot.
1266	6159073	
1267	6159075	
1268	6159076	
1269	6159078	You have such pretty hair. What a lovely color.
1270	6159079	
1271	6159081	Other children used to laugh at me for having ginger hair.
1272	6159082	
1273	6159084	Really? Aww. I bet you were cute. Did you have pigtails?
1274	6159085	
1275	6159087	Sometimes.
1276	6159088	
1277	6159090	How precious! Little Aveline, running around the village with her flaming orange pigtails streaming behind her...
1278	6159091	
1279	6159093	... the little boys all scattering and screaming for mercy as she approached.
1280	6159094	
1281	6159096	Shut up, whore.
1282	6159097	
1283	6159099	
1284	6159100	
1285	6159102	How did you ever get to be so successful with men? You're not <emp>that</emp> pretty.
1286	6159103	
1287	6159105	Cast a wide enough net, and you're bound to catch <emp>something</emp>.
1288	6159106	
1289	6159108	<desc>Laughs</desc> At least you're willing to admit it.
1290	6159109	
1291	6159111	Trust me, I've heard "Get away from me, you ugly pirate hag!" more times than I care to count.
1292	6159112	
1293	6159114	Doesn't that bother you?
1294	6159115	
1295	6159117	Why should it? They don't know me. <emp>I</emp> know me.
1296	6159118	
1297	6159120	If I know who I am, does it matter what other people say?
1298	6159121	
1299	6159123	
1300	6159124	
1301	6159126	You're right.
1302	6159127	
1303	6159129	About?
1304	6159130	
1305	6159132	About knowing who you are.
1306	6159133	
1307	6159135	I'm the Captain of the Guard. I'm a warrior. I'm loyal, strong and I don't look too bad naked.
1308	6159136	
1309	6159138	Exactly. And if I called you a mannish, awkward, ball-crushing do-gooder, you'd say...?
1310	6159139	
1311	6159141	Shut up, whore.
1312	6159142	
1313	6159144	That's my girl.
1314	6159145	
1315	6159147	
1316	6159148	
1317	6159150	You didn't come for my solstice dinner party.
1318	6159151	
1319	6159153	Look at you! Dinner parties, cooking... do you have a lace apron yet, or should I get one for you?
1320	6159154	
1321	6159156	Don't change the subject. I sent you an invitation and you didn't show up.
1322	6159157	
1323	6159159	I thought it would be... I mean, I don't know. I just don't do family gatherings.
1324	6159160	
1325	6159162	Besides, one day you and Donnic will have children and I'll be the <emp>last</emp> person you want around them.
1326	6159163	
1327	6159165	Can you imagine all the awkward question's you'll have to answer? "Mother, what's a slattern?"
1328	6159166	
1329	6159168	I'll just point at you and go, "That's a slattern."
1330	6159169	
1331	6159171	
1332	6159172	
1333	6159174	How's marriage been treating you, big girl?
1334	6159175	
1335	6159177	It's been good. No, great. I'd forgotten what it was like to...
1336	6159178	
1337	6159180	Be flipped arse over tits and hammered like a bent nail?
1338	6159181	
1339	6159183	<emp>To. Be. Loved.</emp>
1340	6159184	
1341	6159186	Oh. Right, of course.
1342	6159187	
1343	6159189	Not that I'm complaining about that other thing.
1344	6159190	
1345	6159192	
1346	6159193	
1347	6159195	
1348	6159196	
1349	6159198	So you've... been with women. In bed?
1350	6159199	
1351	6159201	I know. Shocking, isn't it?
1352	6159202	
1353	6159204	You see, sweetness, men are only good for one thing. Women are good for six.
1354	6159205	
1355	6159207	Six? Which six?
1356	6159208	
1357	6159210	Isabela!
1358	6159211	
1359	6159213	<desc>Laughs</desc>
1360	6159214	
1361	6159216	
1362	6159217	
1363	6159219	"Hessarian's Spear." That's the book you were reading this morning. I don't think Hessarian had a spear in the legends.
1364	6159220	
1365	6159222	He does in this one. Read the description.
1366	6159223	
1367	6159225	"Andraste knelt before no man but her Maker. But she hadn't counted on the Archon Hessarian."
1368	6159226	
1369	6159228	"Can Hessarian penetrate the tight-knit defenses of the warrior-prophetess? Will she be prepared to face the full blast of his... power?"
1370	6159229	
1371	6159231	Wait a minute... <emp>Isabela!</emp> This is a vulgar thing!
1372	6159232	
1373	6159234	You don't want to borrow it?
1374	6159235	
1375	6159237	No!
1376	6159238	
1377	6159240	You sure? It has pictures!
1378	6159241	
1379	6159243	Not listening! I'm not listening!
1380	6159244	
1381	6159246	
1382	6159247	
1383	6159249	
1384	6159250	
1385	6159252	You look like a man I once dueled.
1386	6159253	
1387	6159255	He was a little intimidated by my reputation as a vicious pirate, but rose to the challenge.
1388	6159256	
1389	6159258	He looked like me, you say?
1390	6159259	
1391	6159261	It went on all night, under the stars, the waves lapping at our ankles.
1392	6159262	
1393	6159264	On the beach? In the surf? How did you get proper footing?
1394	6159265	
1395	6159267	We didn't. There was quite a bit of tumbling around, and we were soaked and sore by the time the sun came up.
1396	6159268	
1397	6159270	Did you... win?
1398	6159271	
1399	6159273	I managed to get on top towards the end, but I'd consider it a tie.
1400	6159274	
1401	6159276	You know, when you say you're a "duelist", what do you really mean?
1402	6159277	
1403	6159279	
1404	6159280	
1405	6159282	Why is it always about sex with you?
1406	6159283	
1407	6159285	It's not. Sometimes it's about sex with other people.
1408	6159286	
1409	6159288	You see? It comes up, every single time we talk.
1410	6159289	
1411	6159291	We're just talking, Carver. If it comes up, that's not <emp>my</emp> fault.
1412	6159292	
1413	6159294	What? I mean... that's not what I meant. It... it doesn't!
1414	6159295	
1415	6159297	I hate you so much.
1416	6159298	
1417	6159300	
1418	6159301	
1419	6159303	
1420	6159304	
1421	6159306	So you freed a group of slaves.
1422	6159307	
1423	6159309	Would-be slaves. They weren't slaves yet.
1424	6159310	
1425	6159312	Still, you did the right thing. Many would turn a blind eye.
1426	6159313	
1427	6159315	Don't read too much into it, all right? It just seemed a good idea at the time.
1428	6159316	
1429	6159318	
1430	6159319	
1431	6159321	So what's with that magical fisting thing you do?
1432	6159322	
1433	6159324	I'm... sorry?
1434	6159325	
1435	6159327	You know, when you stick your hand into people.
1436	6159328	
1437	6159330	Oh. That. Yes. It's a... talent.
1438	6159331	
1439	6159333	You could make <emp>so</emp> much coin with that.
1440	6159334	
1441	6159336	
1442	6159337	
1443	6159339	This one time, I was sailing to Llomerryn, and there was a fight between two of my men.
1444	6159340	
1445	6159342	It was over a dice game, or the last piece of toast, or something. Sailors—they're touchy about their toast.
1446	6159343	
1447	6159345	Is this going anywhere?
1448	6159346	
1449	6159348	It will if you let me finish.
1450	6159349	
1451	6159351	So, Jim and Hatecastle are in a knife fight, and Jim sticks Hatecastle right in the shoulder. The blade breaks off.
1452	6159352	
1453	6159354	So now Hatecastle's got a knife-blade stuck in his shoulder, and we're out at sea.
1454	6159355	
1455	6159357	If you were there, you could've just reached out and plucked that blade, right from his flesh.
1456	6159358	
1457	6159360	That's your whole point?
1458	6159361	
1459	6159363	Pretty much.
1460	6159364	
1461	6159366	
1462	6159367	
1463	6159369	So I hear you think mages should be free.
1464	6159370	
1465	6159372	Everyone should be free. Not just mages.
1466	6159373	
1467	6159375	Not everyone's dangerous.
1468	6159376	
1469	6159378	It's not about who's dangerous. It's about having choices made for you, because you were born a certain way.
1470	6159379	
1471	6159381	Don't you wish you had a choice in whether you had lyrium stuck under your skin?
1472	6159382	
1473	6159384	I do.
1474	6159385	
1475	6159387	<desc>Sighs</desc> This is silly. I don't want to argue.
1476	6159388	
1477	6159390	
1478	6159391	
1479	6159393	You seem especially broody today.
1480	6159394	
1481	6159396	Does it bother you? Should I stop?
1482	6159397	
1483	6159399	No, don't stop. Though I was just wondering if you could add a bit of smoulder to the brooding. Just for me.
1484	6159400	
1485	6159402	Smoulder?
1486	6159403	
1487	6159405	Oh, and while you're at it, perhaps throw in some cold insolence. Thanks!
1488	6159406	
1489	6159408	You want me to smoulder and be cold at the same time? You know these things don't go together?
1490	6159409	
1491	6159411	Shush. Don't distract me with your logic.
1492	6159412	
1493	6159414	
1494	6159415	
1495	6159417	That night... I can't stop thinking about it.
1496	6159418	
1497	6159420	Well then, I'll see you later.
1498	6159421	
1499	6159423	That was direct.
1500	6159424	
1501	6159426	I thought I'd get straight to the point. Were you expecting flowers or something?
1502	6159427	
1503	6159429	Don't be silly.
1504	6159430	
1505	6159432	Then I'll see you tonight.
1506	6159433	
1507	6159435	
1508	6159436	
1509	6159438	
1510	6159439	
1511	6159441	Do you really like sailing?
1512	6159442	
1513	6159444	Like it? No. I love it. The salt spray on my face, the wind whipping by my ears, the gulls screaming overhead—I love it all.
1514	6159445	
1515	6159447	Don't you get sick? I was so sick on our trip across the sea.
1516	6159448	
1517	6159450	Were you in the hold?
1518	6159451	
1519	6159453	Everyone was in the hold.
1520	6159454	
1521	6159456	There's your problem. You need to be up on deck, under the sky, with nothing between you and the horizon.
1522	6159457	
1523	6159459	It's like sex. Do it wrong and it'll make you sick and maybe even kill you.
1524	6159460	
1525	6159462	But do it right and there's no feeling in the world quite like it.
1526	6159463	
1527	6159465	
1528	6159466	
1529	6159468	It's not always fun and games on the sea though. There are storms, and hostile pirates.
1530	6159469	
1531	6159471	And it's trying being on a ship with a bunch of men who haven't seen a woman in months.
1532	6159472	
1533	6159474	You're a woman.
1534	6159475	
1535	6159477	No, besides me. I don't let them touch me, so they get... frustrated.
1536	6159478	
1537	6159480	I insist that all of them get alone time. It helps with the crankiness.
1538	6159481	
1539	6159483	But they're already lonely! Why would you insist that they be alone some more? That's cruel!
1540	6159484	
1541	6159486	Merrill.
1542	6159487	
1543	6159489	What? Did I miss something?
1544	6159490	
1545	6159492	Go think about it. Maybe it'll come to you.
1546	6159493	
1547	6159495	
1548	6159496	
1549	6159498	You and Hawke... there's something there, isn't it?
1550	6159499	
1551	6159501	She's so amazing and beautiful... how could anyone not love her?
1552	6159502	
1553	6159504	He's clever, strong and wonderful. How could anyone not love him?
1554	6159505	
1555	6159507	How could anyone not?
1556	6159508	
1557	6159510	You're very quiet today. Is something wrong?
1558	6159511	
1559	6159513	<desc>Gasps</desc> It's me. I said something wrong, didn't I?
1560	6159514	
1561	6159516	No, of course not! You could never say anything wrong.
1562	6159517	
1563	6159519	I'm happy for you, Kitten. You've been alone long enough.
1564	6159520	
1565	6159522	Oh, I could give you a list, but that might just bore you.
1566	6159523	
1567	6159525	So... did you get naked?
1568	6159526	
1569	6159528	Isabela!
1570	6159529	
1571	6159531	Ooh, look at that blush. That good, huh?
1572	6159532	
1573	6159534	
1574	6159535	
1575	6159537	<desc>Sighs</desc> Why do you even like me? I must seem so dull.
1576	6159538	
1577	6159540	What? What brought this on?
1578	6159541	
1579	6159543	Your... your life has been so exciting. The adventures, the duels, the passionate love-affairs.
1580	6159544	
1581	6159546	Compared to that, my life is like a stale, dry biscuit. <desc>Sighs</desc> I wish I had your life.
1582	6159547	
1583	6159549	No, you don't. You don't want my life.
1584	6159550	
1585	6159552	Why?
1586	6159553	
1587	6159555	Because you have a good heart, and you deserve better.
1588	6159556	
1589	6159558	
1590	6159559	
1591	6159561	You've had many lovers, haven't you?
1592	6159562	
1593	6159564	Fewer than some think.
1594	6159565	
1595	6159567	But you never stay with them.
1596	6159568	
1597	6159570	No, why should I?
1598	6159571	
1599	6159573	But the act of love-making is so... intimate.
1600	6159574	
1601	6159576	I don't "make love." What I do is only skin-deep, Kitten.
1602	6159577	
1603	6159579	Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
1604	6159580	
1605	6159582	
1606	6159583	
1607	6159585	Why are you smiling?
1608	6159586	
1609	6159588	No reason.
1610	6159589	
1611	6159591	Ooh, ooh! It's something dirty, isn't it? Tell me, tell me!
1612	6159592	
1613	6159594	It... it isn't anything dirty for once. I'm just... happy.
1614	6159595	
1615	6159597	Oh. That's good too, but I was hoping for something dirty.
1616	6159598	
1617	6159600	Come by the tavern later. I've got stories that will make your toes curl.
1618	6159601	
1619	6159603	
1620	6159604	
1621	6159606	
1622	6159607	
1623	6159609	Rivaini, stop looking at my chest. My eyes are up here.
1624	6159610	
1625	6159612	But the chest hair...
1626	6159613	
1627	6159615	Do you know how much I suffer under your gaze? I am a person, not an object!
1628	6159616	
1629	6159618	Uh, Varric?
1630	6159619	
1631	6159621	<desc>Laughs</desc> Just shitting you. Ogle away, Sunshine.
1632	6159622	
1633	6159624	
1634	6159625	
1635	6159627	I'll let you run your fingers through it, if you want.
1636	6159628	
1637	6159630	Your chest hair? My fingers? Oh, Varric, stop. You're making me quiver.
1638	6159631	
1639	6159633	You know you want to.
1640	6159634	
1641	6159636	Oh, I do... I can't resist you. No woman can.
1642	6159637	
1643	6159639	I know. It's a terrible burden, but someone has to bear it.
1644	6159640	
1645	6159642	
1646	6159643	
1647	6159645	Oh, yes, come to me and I'll take you to places you've never been...
1648	6159646	
1649	6159648	Isabela. Are you talking to Bianca?
1650	6159649	
1651	6159651	I think she deserves to feel a woman's touch on her trigger, don't you?
1652	6159652	
1653	6159654	Bianca responds to my touch. She'd never give it up for you.
1654	6159655	
1655	6159657	That's what they always say. And I always prove them wrong.
1656	6159658	
1657	6159660	Stop it. You're confusing her. And me.
1658	6159661	
1659	6159663	
1660	6159664	
1661	6159666	Psst. I've got some of it written down now.
1662	6159667	
1663	6159669	Give it here.
1664	6159670	
1665	6159672	"Her breasts strained against the leather jerkin, like two wild stallions corralled against their will." <desc>Chuckles</desc>
1666	6159673	
1667	6159675	"She pounced—the smooth moves of a jungle cat—and locked her thighs around Donnic's waist. He—"
1668	6159676	
1669	6159678	<emp>What?</emp>
1670	6159679	
1671	6159681	Nothing.
1672	6159682	
1673	6159684	What is that?
1674	6159685	
1675	6159687	Shh! <desc>Giggles</desc>
1676	6159688	
1677	6159690	Isabela just thought she'd celebrate your love-affair with a... written dedication.
1678	6159691	
1679	6159693	It's "friend-fiction!" I do it out of love!
1680	6159694	
1681	6159696	I feel like I will never, ever be clean again.
1682	6159697	
1683	6159699	Maybe you should read the rest of it in private.
1684	6159700	
1685	6159702	I think that's best.
1686	6159703	
1687	6159705	
1688	6159706	
1689	6159708	Varric, how does one get made a Paragon?
1690	6159709	
1691	6159711	The Assembly votes on it. If you get enough votes—<emp>BAM!</emp>—you're a living god.
1692	6159712	
1693	6159714	You should ask to be made a Paragon. Of manliness.
1694	6159715	
1695	6159717	I like the way you think, Rivaini. But one doesn't just ask to be made a Paragon.
1696	6159718	
1697	6159720	Why not?  Everyone can <emp>see</emp> you're a paragon of manliness, it's just a matter of making it official.
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1701	6159726	After all this, going back to the life of a pirate's going to be a little dull, isn't it?
1702	6159727	
1703	6159729	You have a point. I might have to kidnap the queen of Antiva to amuse myself.
1704	6159730	
1705	6159732	And which part of that would you find amusing? The kidnapping, or the queen?
1706	6159733	
1707	6159735	The kidnapping. I hear the queen's a sour-faced toad.
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