Alistair may be looking up, but Cullen is looking away.

"If you're determined." Still low. "Speak with Josephine first. For my sake. In case there's some sort of strategy she has that speaking with him might disrupt, or support."

Beat.

Then, more carefully: "I'd think you'd want him to support disbanding the Inquisition, at any rate, or at least the military."

It's a line cast upon the waters, and Cullen isn't sure whether or not he wants Alistair to take it or ignore it. He is sure that he hates not speaking plainly, but --

When in Halamshiral.