"Even if they would not approve, I still share your view." They have no way of knowing, after all, and Inessa doesn't live for the approval of those long dead. If her focus is to be on anything elven, it's for those who live now.

She leans back and sighs, relaxed enough with Saoirse to let that mask slip and let her see how weary all this makes her. "It is not the Dalish alone who think so; at least one of the rifter elves seemed to say as much. He wants to teach us pride, as though we have none, as though that will solve our pressing issues. Perhaps I should have seen that coming, as I explained the current state of the elves after his rift was closed."