He is a magister's son who asked you to help him travel to a dangerous place where any cutthroat might have seen your rift shard then captured and sold you to the highest bidder. All to purchase a woman who we must hope only held sentimental value for him as any information she might have provided is currently somewhere in the Marches.
And then, having been with your help safely delivered North, he took whatever Riftwatch intelligence he might have had with him straight to his blood mage mother.
Yeah? And so am I supposed to always just mistrust people on the basis of who they were, rather than who they are now? Should I always watch my purse around you? Or is it that we should wait till Corypheus is defeated, and then we can all turn on each other, the decent lawful folk against the pirates?
I don't care if you walk ten more Magisters' children all the way into Minrathous and down the parade street. The next time, you do it to make useful contacts, or to collect information, or to bring something back that benefits what we're meant to be doing. You don't do it just because some fool says the right words to appeal to your better nature.
I'm not asking you to do anything for the good of the Inqusition-- [Riftwatch. Whatever they want to call it] I'm saying that if you and I mean to make this organization do anything beyond cutting off Corypheus' head, that we're obligated to make our time do double the work.
And anyway, of course I was using the whole time to look at what's going on up there. The point was to gather intelligence, at least partially. It would have been stupid not to do that, and I'm not stupid.
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And then, having been with your help safely delivered North, he took whatever Riftwatch intelligence he might have had with him straight to his blood mage mother.
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Yeah? And so am I supposed to always just mistrust people on the basis of who they were, rather than who they are now? Should I always watch my purse around you? Or is it that we should wait till Corypheus is defeated, and then we can all turn on each other, the decent lawful folk against the pirates?
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But it's not wrong to - help people. As well. Even if they turn out to be rats.
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And anyway, of course I was using the whole time to look at what's going on up there. The point was to gather intelligence, at least partially. It would have been stupid not to do that, and I'm not stupid.
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Would you prefer to write that down as well, or to go through it now?
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Less sharply now:] The next time you're compelled to walk into Tevinter, let's discuss it before the fact.
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Well - when we were planning this, you weren't head of Forces yet.
[ Would she have come to him if he were? Debatable. She doesn't tend to like a lot of input before she makes her bad choices. ]
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[Unlikely.]
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She was dreadfully busy, trying to find someone to help out with the diplomatic team...
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