Ilska slinks after them, tense and uneasy.

Once they're away from the others, Anders smiles comfortingly at them. "It's all right, there's no trouble. I just thought we should be alone for this."

Anders takes a breath. "Ilska, have you ever...affected something without touching it?"

Ilska goes still, then shrugs. "-no?" She doesn't sound very certain.

"Never made a flame burn brighter? Or sense someone in trouble without hearing them say it?"

"-You knew what our- parents. Were going to do. To me."

"I do. And I know exactly why you did what you did. Better to keep a mage safe than let someone cruel live."

"No. Ilska. Ilska knew. Before they- she knew."

Anders looks at Ilska, a little bit shocked. "Ilska, precognition is an incredibly rare skill, even amongst trained mages."

Ilska jerks back slightly. "I- No, I'm- I'm not-"

"Hey, hey, it's all right. It's okay, nothing is going to happen. You're still the same person you were."

She shakes her head, because that isn't the problem-

"I'd know? Wouldn't I?"

“Not always. Sometimes mages have to hide themselves so deep they forget what they are.”

She closes in on herself, wrapping her arms around herself. "I-" She doesn't know what to do.

“We’ll train you. Teach you to shape your power. You’ll not have to worry ever again that you’ll be taken away, or that Cia will.”

"I-" She can't figure out what to say.

Cia tucks emself against her side. "You'll be fine. We've got Anders. And Karl. And Rae and Blaise."

“All of us will work together to keep you safe. You will never know the inside of a Circle, I swear.”

That wasn't her concern, but she doesn't know how to say it. She leans, a little heavily on Cia, feeling like a puppet with all its strings cut.

He joins in the hug, wrapping himself as tightly around them as he can. “I love you both. So much.”

Both of them lean into him.

"We love you too," Cia says.

“You will forever be protected. You will never fear the Templars. I swear it.”

Cia smiles, and pushes up onto eir tiptoes to kiss Anders cheek, regardless of the lines of blue energy. "We love you too, Justice."