"Not always by itself. You keep your ears and your eyes open, but maybe it's something that my people are used to looking for. We're a nation of sailors and pirates and rogues, I'm a captain's daughter and a thief, I have to make a plan that has as many possible ways in and out as I can manage." Not an exaggeration, she worked alone for the most. "You can be selfish but when the times are hard, we are all expected to be a crew. One body, one mind, hauling together."

Right now...right now she misses that. Balancing chasing your wants with what everyone needs, people who just get it.

Mages are the way to get her to listen. Mages are her stake in this, not rifters; she's Inquisition, slipped rifter away from her identity more than a year ago as something she chose to call herself. "Of course, I've taught others. It might not be anywhere as comfortable as the Herald's Rest but that just adds to the lesson."