The moment someone stops in their tracks to look at him his mind is running a million miles a second, verifying that he can make a break for it to the right, that he can't see any Templars, going over his heading all over again... but there's no yell. No shout. No weapons drawn, and the person is now nervously approaching? So he's been recognized again, but by a friend. Anders breathes out and lets them approach, only looking up once addressed.
It's the Seeker. Sweet Maker have mercy, it's the Seeker. Varric is going to kill him.
And she's asking about the book?
For a moment, all Anders can do is stare. He's face to face with a woman who has to be Cassandra Pentergast, and she wants to know if he likes Varric's book. This is impossible, and that feeling is written all over his face.
"...If Varric sent you to ask that, I'd like to preemptively report a murder. His." Anders clears his dry throat and shakes his head. Skyhold is ridiculous, he's deciding. Everyone is apparently arriving here, people actually still care, and a woman who must be Cassandra Pentergast is asking about a book rather than simply arresting him.
Anders looks down at the book, actually considering it. This can't be a ploy. Why would a Seeker need a ploy to arrest a well-known and basically universally wanted criminal? But at the same time, he's still a little tense.
"It's not bad." If the main character wasn't so clearly Aveline, he'd enjoy it more, but taken away from that... "I've got a theory on how it all went down, but I'm no guardsman."
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It's the Seeker. Sweet Maker have mercy, it's the Seeker. Varric is going to kill him.
And she's asking about the book?
For a moment, all Anders can do is stare. He's face to face with a woman who has to be Cassandra Pentergast, and she wants to know if he likes Varric's book. This is impossible, and that feeling is written all over his face.
"...If Varric sent you to ask that, I'd like to preemptively report a murder. His." Anders clears his dry throat and shakes his head. Skyhold is ridiculous, he's deciding. Everyone is apparently arriving here, people actually still care, and a woman who must be Cassandra Pentergast is asking about a book rather than simply arresting him.
Anders looks down at the book, actually considering it. This can't be a ploy. Why would a Seeker need a ploy to arrest a well-known and basically universally wanted criminal? But at the same time, he's still a little tense.
"It's not bad." If the main character wasn't so clearly Aveline, he'd enjoy it more, but taken away from that... "I've got a theory on how it all went down, but I'm no guardsman."