With a nod at Sabriel, Alistair says, "He's ready."
He's not going to get more ready, anyway. Alistair doesn't know of any attempts to find out how blighted a person can be before the Joining can't save them, but it seems like the sort of thing that might matter. They should have done this when Sabriel first suggested it. Alistair said no, or not now, and it isn't charity, and can he even fight—the kind of things he was supposed to say, and that had been said to him before. They're all still true, those things, but here they are—for Sabriel's sake as much as Felix's, as far as Alistair is concerned, before she decides being a Warden is all bad news and worse decisions. It can't all be bad. They're owed a win. This will definitely work.
"I'm not afraid of them," he adds under his breath to Kaidan, although the list of things he currently is most afraid consists, in fact, of (1) the Grey Wardens destroying themselves beyond hope of repair, (2) Adelaide LeBlanc, and (3) Dorian Pavus. "You wouldn't let anyone throw me off the ramparts."
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He's not going to get more ready, anyway. Alistair doesn't know of any attempts to find out how blighted a person can be before the Joining can't save them, but it seems like the sort of thing that might matter. They should have done this when Sabriel first suggested it. Alistair said no, or not now, and it isn't charity, and can he even fight—the kind of things he was supposed to say, and that had been said to him before. They're all still true, those things, but here they are—for Sabriel's sake as much as Felix's, as far as Alistair is concerned, before she decides being a Warden is all bad news and worse decisions. It can't all be bad. They're owed a win. This will definitely work.
"I'm not afraid of them," he adds under his breath to Kaidan, although the list of things he currently is most afraid consists, in fact, of (1) the Grey Wardens destroying themselves beyond hope of repair, (2) Adelaide LeBlanc, and (3) Dorian Pavus. "You wouldn't let anyone throw me off the ramparts."