"I will not lie to you." Cassandra's tone is grave, but steady, and her words are clear as any bell. "As a Seeker, as one who bears both the charge and the responsibility that our Order is entrusted with, I will give you the truth. It was... and yet it was not."
"The decision she made, the choice she made, to advance you in rank so because she had reason to think you had no love of mages and so would be -- be malleable, like heated steel; to calculate that you were unsettled enough and inexperienced enough that she could sway you to support her views wholly, without question, as her pawn - that was poorly done, yes. It was not fair to you, and it was not fair to those whose lives were given to your keeping."
She draws a breath, and continues without giving him more than that instant's chance to react.
"But it was also not - through no intent of hers. Because of who you are, who you have become, the seeds of which you also carried with you from Ferelden."
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"I will not lie to you." Cassandra's tone is grave, but steady, and her words are clear as any bell. "As a Seeker, as one who bears both the charge and the responsibility that our Order is entrusted with, I will give you the truth. It was... and yet it was not."
"The decision she made, the choice she made, to advance you in rank so because she had reason to think you had no love of mages and so would be -- be malleable, like heated steel; to calculate that you were unsettled enough and inexperienced enough that she could sway you to support her views wholly, without question, as her pawn - that was poorly done, yes. It was not fair to you, and it was not fair to those whose lives were given to your keeping."
She draws a breath, and continues without giving him more than that instant's chance to react.
"But it was also not - through no intent of hers. Because of who you are, who you have become, the seeds of which you also carried with you from Ferelden."