[Cade looks like he's been slapped. He's shocked by the implication, and that it was made by Alayre, of all people; Alayre, with whom he's fought side by side, Alayre who first had faith in him when they met in the Hinterlands. Stunned into a devastated silence, he only breaks it to say, weakly:]

I am a Templar.

[It's all he knows how to be.]