Old. Run-down. Dangerous. All highly logical arguments... that Cole probably wouldn't have thought of right away. He's quiet, for a moment. Thinking it through.

He wants Anders to be with him on this. He doesn't want to make people afraid. He still can't know what Leliana will say, whether she will see things the way they do. She thinks so much... but Anders believes they could convince her. Maybe that's what it will take.

There's something else. Something that involves Anders, and Leliana, and Cole himself. Something that could change the outcome of this, for a number of different reasons.

"Do you believe the ritual will work?"