That horror and anger steeps, curdles. Christ, he thought at the very least the templars knew what they were signing up for: an intellectual awareness of the risks even if they weren’t old enough to take them seriously at the time, in the same way of every high school senior adopting crippling student debt, or signing on for the army without thinking about the inevitable injuries, the trauma, the potential disability.
Stephen leans back in his chair, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“I don’t fault anyone for picking up a weapon on the shelf,” god knows he’s wielded terrible magicks that he wasn’t technically supposed to, “but ’not perfect’ is certainly an understatement. Mobius, I’m not—” He suspects this might lead to a fight, he’s got his own sore wounds on the topic of organised religion so might be ruder than he should be, but he has to say it anyway.
“I’m just saying. There’s a difference between the Maker’s will and how humans choose to implement it. Children shouldn’t have to be tricked into how they serve Andraste. Your lyrium abilities aren’t necessarily the way it has to be.”
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That horror and anger steeps, curdles. Christ, he thought at the very least the templars knew what they were signing up for: an intellectual awareness of the risks even if they weren’t old enough to take them seriously at the time, in the same way of every high school senior adopting crippling student debt, or signing on for the army without thinking about the inevitable injuries, the trauma, the potential disability.
Stephen leans back in his chair, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“I don’t fault anyone for picking up a weapon on the shelf,” god knows he’s wielded terrible magicks that he wasn’t technically supposed to, “but ’not perfect’ is certainly an understatement. Mobius, I’m not—” He suspects this might lead to a fight, he’s got his own sore wounds on the topic of organised religion so might be ruder than he should be, but he has to say it anyway.
“I’m just saying. There’s a difference between the Maker’s will and how humans choose to implement it. Children shouldn’t have to be tricked into how they serve Andraste. Your lyrium abilities aren’t necessarily the way it has to be.”