"-Good list. Covers...pretty much everything I can think of to be honest. We're not a complicated bunch."

"You've all been very upfront with what you expect. It's been good to know where to step."

"Not being upfront and then claiming injury because of an action someone couldn't possibly predicted would cause harm is a dick move. We try to avoid those."

"Well, there are harder rules to follow than 'don't be a dick'."

"Circe will still be a bitch, that's a fact of life. But she's never cruel."

"You know, I got that impression very quickly. She has never struck me as someone cruel."

"I'm glad. Sometimes people miss that. Frequently. They get pretty caught up on the bitch thing and can't reconcile it to anything other than cruel."

"Those people have never had the joy of being on a bitch's good side."

Tana laughs. "You are not wrong."

"Standing at Hawke's side while she whittled away someone's ego to shreds was always highly entertaining."

"Oh. You'll get to see Circe dismantle people! It's great fun!"

"Oh, good! I've only done that medically, I've always wanted to see it from a different perspective," Anders laughs.

"I mean. You, uh, might see her dismantle people physically as well. Hazards of the job."

"I've seen plenty of that too. I was a soldier, of a sort."

No point distinguishing what a Warden was here.

Tana regards him for a moment. "That can't have been easy."

"No, but it was hard to leave."

"It is," Tana agrees. "I've never had to," she gestures at her legs. "But Rii- Rii and her lot. Deke. Leaving is a lot harder than anyone ever tells you. But sometimes you have to."

"There was something more I had to do." He laughs, but it's not a happy sound. "Though I guess that doesn't matter now."

"But it did. And that's important. Whether or not it matters now is irrelevant. It mattered then."

"I didn't finish it. What I started. What I left to do."

"Sometimes you can't. Life doesn't let you. But sometimes starting something can... It's like a drop of water in the ocean. It might not seem like much, but that drop? It can change everything."

In Kirkwall? It'd better be a very large drop. 

"I suppose you can only hope."

"Sometimes you don't have anything except hope."

"A tenuous thing to keep hold of."

"Tenuous, but with the right companions..."