Hermione presses her lips together, not liking what she hears but knowing that Inessa isn't trying to get on her bad side or any such thing. This is just the way of things in Thedas. If the Second Wizarding War had turned out differently, Hermione's own world might just have been worse.

"Sometimes," she echoes. "It's the times that it doesn't help that bother me. Or the times where it somehow makes things worse." Looking down at Garahel as though only just remember that her hand is still on him, she absently scratches behind his ear, frowning in thought. "The Venatori and Red Templars are just two aspects of a much larger problem that doesn't seem any closer to being solved."