“Curiosity for now. As much as I like to think I’d have some bolt of genius revelation as soon as I read the paperwork, I probably won’t; I’m simply trying to learn more, to understand what and who we’re up against.”
Strange considers how to explain it. He hasn’t fully articulated the urge to himself, but it turns out he’s always like this when plunged into an unfamiliar setting: greedy, hungry, inhaling as much knowledge as he can, placing sticky fingers in a dozen pies and then processing whatever he can get his hands on.
“My last two enemies on this sort of scale, I knew who and what they were.” He says it as carefully as he can, but there’s a kind of delicacy in admitting the fact that he knew his enemy: like a splinter in his thumb, a lingering pain. He walks right past the topic, continuing: “Darkspawn, though, are flat-out new to me. And some ancient mythical king of darkspawn pulling the strings of national politics? Also new. That’s probably an oversimplification of the situation you’re facing, but still. I want to understand as much of it as I can.”
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Strange considers how to explain it. He hasn’t fully articulated the urge to himself, but it turns out he’s always like this when plunged into an unfamiliar setting: greedy, hungry, inhaling as much knowledge as he can, placing sticky fingers in a dozen pies and then processing whatever he can get his hands on.
“My last two enemies on this sort of scale, I knew who and what they were.” He says it as carefully as he can, but there’s a kind of delicacy in admitting the fact that he knew his enemy: like a splinter in his thumb, a lingering pain. He walks right past the topic, continuing: “Darkspawn, though, are flat-out new to me. And some ancient mythical king of darkspawn pulling the strings of national politics? Also new. That’s probably an oversimplification of the situation you’re facing, but still. I want to understand as much of it as I can.”