"What she ends up predicting is even more depressing," Waver said with faux cheer. He could probably bribe Iskandar into retelling the whole thing far better than he ever could, but that was a drunken evening to be had another time.

"It seems to me like anywhere that isn't Kirkwall has factors that can be reasonably calculated into any particular thing," he continued with a sigh. "This place is a child of chaos and so any planning is probably going to be a fools errand. I'd start considering other cases now, if I was higher up."