"Allegations of favouritism would always be rife given Ambassadors Montilyet's previous occupation prior to all of this and it could even have been that the merchant princes were too eager to be involved. Kirkwall is a known quantity for a lot of people though and more easily controlled. Lacking in Crows." Araceli remembers that first trip to Antiva to rescue Zevran, the involvement of the Crows and those they were fortunately able to bring back for a shot at a life that was theirs and not a thing dictated by others for a price. "Being caught between Tevinter and the Qunari is one hell of a rock and a hard place given what makes up the Inquisition in the end. Shipping won't be so bad as Skyhold. It isn't coming via Orlais or Ferelden then up the mountain. There's only one shipping lane for everyone to come up that Kirkwall can control."
That being said, the Inquisition need to keep on the good side of the person who controls that chain or things are going to get difficult very quickly. There are immediate neighbours now. Each with their own agendas and rulers who might unify at a threat. Kirkwall's had more of those in the past decade or so than Araceli's whole world has had in the lifetime of her, her parents, or her grandparents.
Cutting through a carrot more savagely than is strictly necessary, it stops her from making a face at 'fall into the Fade'. Some things are still sore even months after, even if she doesn't talk about them. What good does it do to talk about a thing that neither of them had control over other than to worry someone enough that it might cause a mistake at a crucial moment? "Then we must hope that Christine's research does all that it can for us." By now they've spoken enough that Araceli uses her first name, not just her surname and a title in front of it. "I need to work there for obvious reasons once there's a space where I will be less in the way outside of going to make and deliver my reports to those who need them but try to think of what it can be. If there are rifts, they can be sealed. Who can say what that will do for the Veil here. And if the people see us able to clear that place into a habitable working space such as Skyhold was...sirena, it will be a good thing." Araceli says firmly because belief matters when it comes to this sort of thing but Korrin knows her, knows that she's queensguard too and that the people need to see the Inquisition be the Inquisition.
As for the other part, she gives her hand a look as she's so often been doing. "Mages and those connected in some way to the Qun whether they wish to be or not are my concern, rifters only so much in however what they do reflects upon me since so many people seem unable to grasp such a basic concept." Is it selfish? Only so much as them being selfish enough not to think of the bigger picture and what's at stake. "I'm Inquisition. I have been for longer than I have been a rifter." The distinction might not matter to anyone else but it matters to Araceli that this is the side she chose and that she's saying it again in Kirkwall when she'd made it plain too in Skyhold.
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That being said, the Inquisition need to keep on the good side of the person who controls that chain or things are going to get difficult very quickly. There are immediate neighbours now. Each with their own agendas and rulers who might unify at a threat. Kirkwall's had more of those in the past decade or so than Araceli's whole world has had in the lifetime of her, her parents, or her grandparents.
Cutting through a carrot more savagely than is strictly necessary, it stops her from making a face at 'fall into the Fade'. Some things are still sore even months after, even if she doesn't talk about them. What good does it do to talk about a thing that neither of them had control over other than to worry someone enough that it might cause a mistake at a crucial moment? "Then we must hope that Christine's research does all that it can for us." By now they've spoken enough that Araceli uses her first name, not just her surname and a title in front of it. "I need to work there for obvious reasons once there's a space where I will be less in the way outside of going to make and deliver my reports to those who need them but try to think of what it can be. If there are rifts, they can be sealed. Who can say what that will do for the Veil here. And if the people see us able to clear that place into a habitable working space such as Skyhold was...sirena, it will be a good thing." Araceli says firmly because belief matters when it comes to this sort of thing but Korrin knows her, knows that she's queensguard too and that the people need to see the Inquisition be the Inquisition.
As for the other part, she gives her hand a look as she's so often been doing. "Mages and those connected in some way to the Qun whether they wish to be or not are my concern, rifters only so much in however what they do reflects upon me since so many people seem unable to grasp such a basic concept." Is it selfish? Only so much as them being selfish enough not to think of the bigger picture and what's at stake. "I'm Inquisition. I have been for longer than I have been a rifter." The distinction might not matter to anyone else but it matters to Araceli that this is the side she chose and that she's saying it again in Kirkwall when she'd made it plain too in Skyhold.