Harding looks to Kas, and his suggestion. It's a fair one. But that involves getting closer to the abomination and its trail of destruction rather than further away. Someone has to be closer, has to already be dealing with it already, don't they?
She hates everything about this. Magic and what can become of mage is all theoretical, something she can and never will fully understand and all she can do is act on what she can see and the training she has been given. But it's harder when it's not just fleeing (and wounded, dying) mage apprentices that have their life in her immediate choices, but the scouts that surround her. She all knows they're willing to die for the Inquisition's cause, but this isn't the Inquisition's cause, not really. This is an internal problem, and what kind of death is that?
But that's morbid thinking and she reconsiders the fire, likely chewing its way through the garden and into the walls of Skyhold. A garden can be rebuilt, as can walls. Again if they have to.
"Lives are more important," she decides. "The first priority is to get people out, anyone that can move. Find out what you can from those who are able to talk. As for the fire, putting it out is more dangerous considering the source - I don't want any of you doing anything brave or stupid - but we can stall it and stop it from spreading any further by finding what doesn't burn."
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She hates everything about this. Magic and what can become of mage is all theoretical, something she can and never will fully understand and all she can do is act on what she can see and the training she has been given. But it's harder when it's not just fleeing (and wounded, dying) mage apprentices that have their life in her immediate choices, but the scouts that surround her. She all knows they're willing to die for the Inquisition's cause, but this isn't the Inquisition's cause, not really. This is an internal problem, and what kind of death is that?
But that's morbid thinking and she reconsiders the fire, likely chewing its way through the garden and into the walls of Skyhold. A garden can be rebuilt, as can walls. Again if they have to.
"Lives are more important," she decides. "The first priority is to get people out, anyone that can move. Find out what you can from those who are able to talk. As for the fire, putting it out is more dangerous considering the source - I don't want any of you doing anything brave or stupid - but we can stall it and stop it from spreading any further by finding what doesn't burn."