doesn't laugh. She looks thoughtful, doing the math on the current line up in the central tower: a rifter, a politically active mage, a pirate with known aligning interests, and the wildcard who keeps her opinions to herself. Yseult could join the Inquisition if she felt so strongly about the Chantry, on the one hand; on the other, there were a lot of reasons not to join them that didn't necessarily mean she'd endorse every grievance. Still, a greater majority than they'd had when the negotiations had gone forward— those heads had hardly been united behind the mages. Or the rifters, for that matter, although that had been.
More complicated.
The calm stillness about her is, perhaps, more unsettling than agitation might have been.
“That's why I proposed the experiments,” she says, steadily. “I want to know what resources they'll have, and what sort of edge we might.”
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doesn't laugh. She looks thoughtful, doing the math on the current line up in the central tower: a rifter, a politically active mage, a pirate with known aligning interests, and the wildcard who keeps her opinions to herself. Yseult could join the Inquisition if she felt so strongly about the Chantry, on the one hand; on the other, there were a lot of reasons not to join them that didn't necessarily mean she'd endorse every grievance. Still, a greater majority than they'd had when the negotiations had gone forward— those heads had hardly been united behind the mages. Or the rifters, for that matter, although that had been.
More complicated.
The calm stillness about her is, perhaps, more unsettling than agitation might have been.
“That's why I proposed the experiments,” she says, steadily. “I want to know what resources they'll have, and what sort of edge we might.”