"...unfit, because you can't find a single book?" Anders gives him a look that asks if Alayre is kidding. "You were blind. Caught up in the lies of your Order. But you are no longer. And as I've not heard your name before meeting you, you have never called for the Rite of Annulment, have not wanted it. You've not crossed that line. We, the mages, cannot, absolutely cannot, trust anyone who has done that. And that cuts out some of the Templars here. You treat mages like people, and we cannot trust someone who does not. That cuts out a great many more of the Templars here."

He shakes his head. "No, Alayre. You, who just called a mage a friend, are exactly what is needed for change. Someone whose eyes have opened, and opened before he went too far."

As he finishes speaking, his eyes fall on a book cover that fits the description, and Anders pulls it out, offering it.

"Would this be it?"