Bastien's head tilts, his mostly-impassively pleasant expression tinging with disappointment. Ignorance would have been better.
"Then you knew how we could use it," he says. Knew and never mentioned, never offered. Bastien doesn't know of any Riftwatchers killed by liars they couldn't see coming, but as a liar people couldn't see coming, he knows that's luck. It might run out any mission now.
He turns back to his sorting.
"I suppose taking whatever you decide you need to win your war is only for Emperors and Grey Wardens, non?" His head and elbow dip toward the ring in a gesture that say go on then. "But Yseult might ask you to borrow it sometime. Don't be surprised."
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"Then you knew how we could use it," he says. Knew and never mentioned, never offered. Bastien doesn't know of any Riftwatchers killed by liars they couldn't see coming, but as a liar people couldn't see coming, he knows that's luck. It might run out any mission now.
He turns back to his sorting.
"I suppose taking whatever you decide you need to win your war is only for Emperors and Grey Wardens, non?" His head and elbow dip toward the ring in a gesture that say go on then. "But Yseult might ask you to borrow it sometime. Don't be surprised."