Were she anyone else, Simon would still be pleased at the opportunity to minister about the Chant--or even just to talk about it, whether or not he was talking to someone who wanted to see truth in it. He's been taught all his life that it's his sacred duty to talk about his faith, but he loves doing it purely on its own merits. Like her healing, he'd never ask anything in trade for explaining what the templar path entails and why.

But he's particularly delighted by the offered exchange, when he'd wanted it even more than healing when he sought her out. If she won't be offended by his interest, or else distressed by talk of what she's lost, he'll be an endless fountain of questions.

"Oh, more than fair," he says, all earnestness. "I've always thought your people were fascinating. I've read some of the sagas, or at least the ones translated into trade, but you must know more of them--and I was never sure about how legend-marks work, but they sound so heroic. I don't know how exciting templars in particular are, in comparison, but I'll answer whatever you like. We get everything interesting about us from the Chantry."