He's very good, isn't he? [ Merrill agrees with a delighted hum, shifting a bit on her toes to see which books, in particular, are ones Varric wrote. ]

It's like his own version of magic, I think. Though I don't tell him that -- I think it might unsettle him, a bit.

[ After all, dwarves don't dream, don't use magic, don't know the Fade. Varric, she thinks, would prefer to keep it that way. ]