[... Oh. So it's true she knows about the whole dying thing.]
Sorry.
[Anders winces. He'd wondered after her return to Wonderland in the spring but hadn't ever pushed the subject enough to ask.
He' wanted to believe it'd worked out a different way for her, that she and her companions had defeated the archdemon and managed to live to tell the tale, unlike the late Hero of Ferelden he knew of.]
You're still a hero in my book, with or without a pulse.
[Just as Alistair, in a weird way, will always be one of the men who'd helped save him from a lose-lose choice between the noose and the Tranquil brand. A smile blooms, a little smaller and briefer than hers. He's glad his unintentional blunder hadn't completely ruined her ability to smile over her future prospects as a slave to the whimsies of cats.]
Something to look forward to when we get back to Ferelden, then.
no subject
Sorry.
[Anders winces. He'd wondered after her return to Wonderland in the spring but hadn't ever pushed the subject enough to ask.
He' wanted to believe it'd worked out a different way for her, that she and her companions had defeated the archdemon and managed to live to tell the tale, unlike the late Hero of Ferelden he knew of.]
You're still a hero in my book, with or without a pulse.
[Just as Alistair, in a weird way, will always be one of the men who'd helped save him from a lose-lose choice between the noose and the Tranquil brand. A smile blooms, a little smaller and briefer than hers. He's glad his unintentional blunder hadn't completely ruined her ability to smile over her future prospects as a slave to the whimsies of cats.]
Something to look forward to when we get back to Ferelden, then.