Araceli nods even if she knows that this is Thedas where it likes to repeat itself time and time again, the same wars, the same conflicts, the same struggles, all of them played out every age or so to see if the world has decided upon a victor or if someone will move up or down in the pecking order. "Let us hope the Inquistion can do better," she decides, even if there are perhaps a few too many of the old guard lurking around than she would like.

Sometimes you need to cut away at it, sweep the legs out from under them and keep walking when they scream at you about it. Leave the relics behind to be forgotten about and either fall in line behind you or remain where they are as a lesson.

"If you're going to do that you have to come to the lessons, same as everyone else." No you don't get a free pass just because you've been dating the instructor for over a year with the sort of gifts traded that some people might consider it a marriage perhaps or a statement of intent if either of them were that way inclined. "When I have the lessons up and running again since I can do them properly here for the first time."