The bewilderment and disbelief in her tone is clear. Galadriel had been anything but respectful to her, and while that had not been enough to drive her to do what she had done - she does not imprison people for being difficult, or Varric would never have seen the light of day again - it had done nothing to endear her to the elf. She finds it impossible, too, to understand why the Dalish would find comfort in her. It seems nonsensical. Galadriel is not Dalish; wherever she comes from, she is clearly not an elf of Thedas, and likely has little in common with them. What comfort could she be to them?
Cassandra wears her heart on her sleeve; for all that she strives to be stoic and self-controlled, for all that she acts with confidence and does not apologize for who she is, she is still all too easily carried away by her emotions, whether that be her temper or any of a number of other passions. She is frustrated, insulted, afraid, and it shows. Leliana is the opposite. Calm and controlled, adept in hiding her motives and her emotions alike, everything Cassandra is not. Any anger in Leliana's tone goes completely unnoticed, at least by Cassandra; any tension between them directly, and not caused by the situation itself, is invisible to her, subsumed by her own emotions.
She straightens her spine and lifts her chin at Leliana's question - urgent, demanding, and rightfully so, but contained. A question that deserves an answer.
"They are here," she says, measured now, as much as she can manage, "because their owner is currently in the custody of the Inquisition. She has proved herself a threat to the people of Skyhold."
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The bewilderment and disbelief in her tone is clear. Galadriel had been anything but respectful to her, and while that had not been enough to drive her to do what she had done - she does not imprison people for being difficult, or Varric would never have seen the light of day again - it had done nothing to endear her to the elf. She finds it impossible, too, to understand why the Dalish would find comfort in her. It seems nonsensical. Galadriel is not Dalish; wherever she comes from, she is clearly not an elf of Thedas, and likely has little in common with them. What comfort could she be to them?
Cassandra wears her heart on her sleeve; for all that she strives to be stoic and self-controlled, for all that she acts with confidence and does not apologize for who she is, she is still all too easily carried away by her emotions, whether that be her temper or any of a number of other passions. She is frustrated, insulted, afraid, and it shows. Leliana is the opposite. Calm and controlled, adept in hiding her motives and her emotions alike, everything Cassandra is not. Any anger in Leliana's tone goes completely unnoticed, at least by Cassandra; any tension between them directly, and not caused by the situation itself, is invisible to her, subsumed by her own emotions.
She straightens her spine and lifts her chin at Leliana's question - urgent, demanding, and rightfully so, but contained. A question that deserves an answer.
"They are here," she says, measured now, as much as she can manage, "because their owner is currently in the custody of the Inquisition. She has proved herself a threat to the people of Skyhold."