Oh really? Such confidence for a game you've never played! I'm a master of it so we should see if you measure up first before deciding who needs a handicap.
[ He grins at his phone, enjoying the friendly rivalry. He knows she's probably right; a successful rogue's accuracy should hardly be questioned, but where's the fun in that?
His grin fades into a more accommodating little smile at her talk of exchange and assurance that she's not trying to hold anything over him. Ah, Amelia...]
I didn't think you were and anything I share is freely given, not a commerce of information, though if you want to share in kind I'm certainly eager to hear anything you'd like me to know.
Cullen is a strange sort of story. I don't know if you have any in your life like this but we started out enemies. He was a ridiculous caricature of a man at first. 'Mages arent people like you and me' Said that straight to my face, never realizing. Some templar he was, not recognizing an apostate right under his nose. And virginal to boot. Couldn't even say the word whore when referring to an actual brothel. But for all his faults he still somehow kept in sight what is right. He spoke out against his commanding officer when she ordered him to kill my companions and me, even fought beside us against her. And he continued to try and be a better person even after. Even here in Duplicity he ran Haven hospital and supported a magical healing wing of it for those that mundane medicine could not help, and he provided a cure for my love of an ailment that is heretofore incurable in Thedas. We became friends I think friends is the word but more importantly I respect him now, more than I ever thought possible. I hope his life has gotten easier since he returned home.
[ Funny, he'd not really ever put all of that out into the world before. He's not sure he could, at least not to anyone from Thedas. He does wish a little now that he'd been able to tell Cullen of that respect. Hopefully he picked up on it, but Hawke has his doubts. Even if his heart is mostly in the right place, Hawke doesn't consider Cullen the brightest candle in the votive stand. ]
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[ He grins at his phone, enjoying the friendly rivalry. He knows she's probably right; a successful rogue's accuracy should hardly be questioned, but where's the fun in that?
His grin fades into a more accommodating little smile at her talk of exchange and assurance that she's not trying to hold anything over him. Ah, Amelia...]
I didn't think you were and anything I share is freely given, not a commerce of information, though if you want to share in kind I'm certainly eager to hear anything you'd like me to know.
Cullen is a strange sort of story. I don't know if you have any in your life like this but we started out enemies. He was a ridiculous caricature of a man at first.
'Mages arent people like you and me'
Said that straight to my face, never realizing. Some templar he was, not recognizing an apostate right under his nose. And virginal to boot. Couldn't even say the word whore when referring to an actual brothel.
But for all his faults he still somehow kept in sight what is right. He spoke out against his commanding officer when she ordered him to kill my companions and me, even fought beside us against her. And he continued to try and be a better person even after.
Even here in Duplicity he ran Haven hospital and supported a magical healing wing of it for those that mundane medicine could not help, and he provided a cure for my love of an ailment that is heretofore incurable in Thedas.
We became friends
I think friends is the word but more importantly I respect him now, more than I ever thought possible.
I hope his life has gotten easier since he returned home.
[ Funny, he'd not really ever put all of that out into the world before. He's not sure he could, at least not to anyone from Thedas. He does wish a little now that he'd been able to tell Cullen of that respect. Hopefully he picked up on it, but Hawke has his doubts. Even if his heart is mostly in the right place, Hawke doesn't consider Cullen the brightest candle in the votive stand. ]