The speaker gets a half-smile. Anders gives the dummy one more solid thwack before resting his staff against his shoulder.

"Is everything ever alright? It seems to me that there's always something going wrong." The smile grows a little as Anders walks over toward the man to retrieve his waterskin and take a drink. "I'm not particularly skilled at hand-to-hand. I've had some help with it, but I need to get better. Because, unfortunately, things are not yet all good and peaceful. Though that begs the question of whether or not they ever can be."

Justice believes that things can be proper and right. Justice also believes that owning a cat is a form of slavery. Anders has to take the spirit's opinion with more than a few grains of salt.

"And good... morning, such as it is. Were you lacking sleep as well?"