A shame she can't tell him about going to Tevinter and swindling old men with their own money. And how that had somehow involved bees. That at least had been fun before riding off to seal rifts.

"Politics can be an adventure," says the bard student and the queensguard because Korrin has probably complained behind Araceli's back about her enjoying it all a little bit too much. "And it leads to murder all too often, especially in Thedas."

But Orlais gets a knowing little sigh, now that she's been there herself. "Dealing with the nobles? Or the charming people of Orlais who are on the whole as rude to anyone not like them or with as much coin as them as I was warned."