[Cyril's hand moves to the upper part of what remains of his arm. He squeezes lightly, rubbing at an ache that will never fully go away.
He understands what she means when she says she'll always be Inquisitor. Even as he says he let someone else have the title now, he still works in the shadows of the organization, guiding it towards redeeming his friend. He'll probably never fully abandon what the title meant, or the things he did while he had it.
And he'll never, ever turn his back on his people, Solas included.]
I can't tell you how reassuring it is to hear another person say those words. Everyone else acts as if the only answer is to kill him. Except for Cole, of course, but he has to focus on his own journey. No one else wants to work to help him realize how much value is left in Thedas.
I want to offer that to you too. To give you a place where you can talk and plan out ways to do exactly that. Even if we don't retain all of our memories from this place, maybe we can help inspire each other back home through whatever connection we forge here.
Maybe we can both save him.
[A slight pause, and he adds, with a small, comforting smile.] And maybe we can have someone who doesn't judge us when we have those moments where we want to strangle him a little too.
[He says it lightly, recalling what she herself said just moments before: Some days I wake up and I want to hunt him down and kill him for what he plans to do, and others I want nothing more than to wake up with him beside me.
He might tell himself that he doesn't know what it's like to love someone the way she does, but he can relate to the conflict, how the guilt over it can eat up at you, and how no one else in the world seems to understand.]
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Date: 2017-11-19 07:44 pm (UTC)He understands what she means when she says she'll always be Inquisitor. Even as he says he let someone else have the title now, he still works in the shadows of the organization, guiding it towards redeeming his friend. He'll probably never fully abandon what the title meant, or the things he did while he had it.
And he'll never, ever turn his back on his people, Solas included.]
I can't tell you how reassuring it is to hear another person say those words. Everyone else acts as if the only answer is to kill him. Except for Cole, of course, but he has to focus on his own journey. No one else wants to work to help him realize how much value is left in Thedas.
I want to offer that to you too. To give you a place where you can talk and plan out ways to do exactly that. Even if we don't retain all of our memories from this place, maybe we can help inspire each other back home through whatever connection we forge here.
Maybe we can both save him.
[A slight pause, and he adds, with a small, comforting smile.] And maybe we can have someone who doesn't judge us when we have those moments where we want to strangle him a little too.
[He says it lightly, recalling what she herself said just moments before: Some days I wake up and I want to hunt him down and kill him for what he plans to do, and others I want nothing more than to wake up with him beside me.
He might tell himself that he doesn't know what it's like to love someone the way she does, but he can relate to the conflict, how the guilt over it can eat up at you, and how no one else in the world seems to understand.]