[She starts, and then stops herself. It's a good question and warrants some real consideration rather than simply rattling off an answer. Think before you do things, Wysteria. You must measure your responses with logic and fact and education, not simply leap guided by intuition or feeling, says some voice who less and less sounds like anyone in Kalvad and more and more like-- well, someone else. Herself, maybe, though it's a difficult thing to recognize. She's never spent much time at all thinking at herself rather than simply talking out loud about it.
Eventually, her hands having at some point during her contemplation assumed the action of twisting the silver ring on her forefinger around and around, she says:]
Yes, I think I do. Find it a comfort. I can see why someone wouldn't - that the idea people like the Provost and Enchanter Amsel and all the leadership at Skyhold and maybe even whoever is picked to be Divine might be worried about their decisions the same as I am could just be horrible because, really, what do I know? But if they weren't just like that, - if they weren't frightened by anything, or if they were somehow more perfect or more suitable for their task than anyone else in the whole world... well, it would make something terrible happening to them that much more awful, wouldn't it? Because then they're very irreplaceable.
But I mean, the Herald died. And yet here we are with her, dealing with the rifts and fighting the war she would have probably led. And even Andraste was meant to just have been a person. And no, maybe it isn't good enough to just be nervous or to just know that everyone else is just as beside themselves as the person, er--, beside them. But I do think it's good to know that the bar - that is, that the standard of effectiveness and what any old person can do if they're very determined - isn't actually placed very far up at all. It makes trying seem useful. And I suppose it makes things like, I don't know, the battle at Ghislain going so terribly or even the poor Grand Cleric Agathe's death seem less devastating.
Not that-- [Wysteria hurries to add, growing very red in the face out of mortification] --not that it isn't terrible. It's very sad. And just awful for all kinds of reasons. Obviously. Uh. Here, [she pushes the plate to him] you should have the last piece of cheese.
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[She starts, and then stops herself. It's a good question and warrants some real consideration rather than simply rattling off an answer. Think before you do things, Wysteria. You must measure your responses with logic and fact and education, not simply leap guided by intuition or feeling, says some voice who less and less sounds like anyone in Kalvad and more and more like-- well, someone else. Herself, maybe, though it's a difficult thing to recognize. She's never spent much time at all thinking at herself rather than simply talking out loud about it.
Eventually, her hands having at some point during her contemplation assumed the action of twisting the silver ring on her forefinger around and around, she says:]
Yes, I think I do. Find it a comfort. I can see why someone wouldn't - that the idea people like the Provost and Enchanter Amsel and all the leadership at Skyhold and maybe even whoever is picked to be Divine might be worried about their decisions the same as I am could just be horrible because, really, what do I know? But if they weren't just like that, - if they weren't frightened by anything, or if they were somehow more perfect or more suitable for their task than anyone else in the whole world... well, it would make something terrible happening to them that much more awful, wouldn't it? Because then they're very irreplaceable.
But I mean, the Herald died. And yet here we are with her, dealing with the rifts and fighting the war she would have probably led. And even Andraste was meant to just have been a person. And no, maybe it isn't good enough to just be nervous or to just know that everyone else is just as beside themselves as the person, er--, beside them. But I do think it's good to know that the bar - that is, that the standard of effectiveness and what any old person can do if they're very determined - isn't actually placed very far up at all. It makes trying seem useful. And I suppose it makes things like, I don't know, the battle at Ghislain going so terribly or even the poor Grand Cleric Agathe's death seem less devastating.
Not that-- [Wysteria hurries to add, growing very red in the face out of mortification] --not that it isn't terrible. It's very sad. And just awful for all kinds of reasons. Obviously. Uh. Here, [she pushes the plate to him] you should have the last piece of cheese.