The breathing comes easier as the herbs release their scent, and he gradually relaxes enough to work with, and then enough to laugh a little at that.

"I'll have to work on that," he says. "And I was getting to it, honest. I'm Simon." The surname doesn't feel important at the moment, nor the 'Ser.'

"So--if you don't mind my asking, what made you want to join the Inquisition, anyway? I mean, not to point out the obvious, but we haven't got a lot of other Avvar around."