The Anderfels? [Varric didn't bother to hide his surprise. After a moment he just nodded and glanced back down at the book.]

That would explain a few things. [Not that seeing one of his books in such disrepair, still being lovingly read, was a terrible thing. It was just, well, pretty unusual.]

Tell me it was that worn when you got it? You can't possibly have read that enough times to have dog-eared it that badly.