Honestly he wants them both - for as much as he teases Sam, he's a good friend, and they've bought fought together as well, and that's always what makes Asher trust people. He's got contacts that've never steered him wrong, always polite, always willing to put up with whatever nonsense Asher throws at them but they've never once fought side by side, back to back, but out in Emprise du Lion, Asher ended up fighting bears and wolves alongside both of them, and that means something, at least to him.

"They council the Thane too. That's the leader of the hold - I don't even know what anyone knows about the Avvar, my crew, and Korrin and Mal, they've known me so long they know everything." And the crew go to the holds with him, they've all considered guests at other holds the way that Asher did but just like him at honey badger, they're family. "The Chantry, Templars, Andraste, none of that has a place in the hold, none of it is even welcome in the hold. You can see why I liked getting to go visit when my parents were busy with my other siblings and the farm, and I was getting in the way. You work hard in the hold but you watch out for each other, spirit and person, and hold beast."

Nodding, he gives a real smile, grateful and relieved in response the question. "You have no idea. Rattling around in a cart isn't how to travel when you're like this." But it's not like he could actually walk so he didn't really have options.