"...You know what that sounds like, Leliana? It sounds much like how we, as Crows, were taught to harden our hearts for the kill. While your purpose is different and more noble...I spent much of the year with Jonas unlearning that. You spent time in Lothering doing much the same." Not a condemnation, he is truly too sober and too weary for it, but the comment is one worth making. They have both been in such a situation before, he worked out of it as best he could on his own. Leliana seemed better suited to moving forward with that conviction but-

The world spins on and people change.

He simply never expected her to change back.

"Less the 'greater good' and more 'the benefit of the crows' but- It is familiar enough." What she makes of it is for her to decide. He? He is sipping wine and staring out into the clearing where the crows- no. His little birds had been training. "I need to be something they can depend on. Something that can lead them to being more than Crows. When I left...all I needed was the ability to choose for myself what I wanted. Teaching them that? Has been difficult."