"A couple of months ago, someone attacked me. Broke...broke my collarbone and a rib or two. Because the Inquisition is watching Sina, and imprisoned Galadriel, he was mistrustful of elven mages. Someone cuffed him and I got away, but...I went to Anders. He's never revealed it to anyone. He was kind and didn't make a mission of it. Didn't use it as a reason to get up in arms. He just. Tended me over the next few days.
"Don't try to fit people into boxes. Don't try to say if he made things worse or better. Things are what they are. Anders might have been executed once, but he is alive and he's trying to do good. He doesn't have any more of a say in what follows than you do. He never did. He wasn't some guiding force for the rebellion, he was just a man who endured more than he could tolerate. I see people like that every day. I have to care for one of them every single time he breaks. I can't blame them because we're not built to endure endless pain. And punishing them for reaching that limit is what makes it happen again and again."
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She doesn't look at him.
"A couple of months ago, someone attacked me. Broke...broke my collarbone and a rib or two. Because the Inquisition is watching Sina, and imprisoned Galadriel, he was mistrustful of elven mages. Someone cuffed him and I got away, but...I went to Anders. He's never revealed it to anyone. He was kind and didn't make a mission of it. Didn't use it as a reason to get up in arms. He just. Tended me over the next few days.
"Don't try to fit people into boxes. Don't try to say if he made things worse or better. Things are what they are. Anders might have been executed once, but he is alive and he's trying to do good. He doesn't have any more of a say in what follows than you do. He never did. He wasn't some guiding force for the rebellion, he was just a man who endured more than he could tolerate. I see people like that every day. I have to care for one of them every single time he breaks. I can't blame them because we're not built to endure endless pain. And punishing them for reaching that limit is what makes it happen again and again."