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I preferred the old books better. [This thing is being folded every which way, because they just had to make this thing harder to use.] At least you knew where you stood with them. The old books never changed; they might never have been easy to use, but they you knew what you were supposed to do with them.

[Is he talking about the book, still? Maybe, maybe not.] With all this talk of the Initiative and the United Earth issues, there's been something that's come up several times. Something I would be worried about, and so should others.

Traitors. Those who turned away from the goal right when their colleagues needed them most. Or the ones who never came to help in the first place, though they said they would. Traitors also includes liars. Yes. Liars. The ones who never tell the truth, especially when the truth could be the information you needed the most.

[He's getting exasperated with this new book.] I wonder, how did everyone else treat liars back home? In Ferelden, we had several ways of punishing those that had committed crimes against the crown, or those who'd lied and were caught. Some of them seemed rather harsh, but if someone who steals loses a finger, why not have the liar lose something as well? Something they value, something close to them, so that they can be hurt as much as they have hurt those around them.

So, how should we treat those liars, here? If we find traitors, what do we do with them? A mock execution, whipping, leaving them bound and gagged in a small room? Killing them would just be too merciful for what they've done, wouldn't it? [He pauses.]

Andraste's foul breath, this new book is more difficult then the other! [Okay, he's done with this book thing. With a yell, he throws it across the room.]

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[Hm.] Maybe I should amend that, then. If your lies have broken trust and damaged someone, then you cut out their tongue.

[ it almost makes him laugh in some horrible way, thinking of maverick. ]

Tempting as that can be, it's better to think it over rationally and make sure what they get is fair given what they did. Justice needs to be served, not anger.

[ not that he's always good at remembering this himself ]

That may be why we don't ever make decisions the same day as hearing the news. [That doesn't help him be less angry, though.]

And what if it's not justice that's needed? What then?

What do you think is needed?

Retribution.

[ slllides this over to private and possibly stalks the rest of the replies before responding. ]

What happened?

[Yeah, he doesn't know how to get it to go private, so if someone else does that, it's good.]

I was recently told about things that had happened back home. Things I should have been told about as soon as I arrived. Instead, they all conspired not to tell me.

[ Not that he doesn't understand being angry about something like that, but - ]

Perhaps concerned that you'd react like this?

I'm reacting like this because I wasn't told first thing! If they had been upfront with me, I could at least keep some dignity in the face of this issue!

Logically, does it matter when you find out, while you're here? There's no changing what happens there until you get back anyway.

It does when it's my death! [There. He's said it.]

[ Oh.

Well. That stops him short. ]

[ He doesn't say I wasn't expecting that but it's kind of a near thing. ]

That would change things.

[So utterly miserable.]

It does. I understand not wanting to divulge that, since... [He shakes his head.] What am I supposed to do, if there's nothing to go back to?

If you understand that, then I'm sure you can appreciate what a difficult position they must have been in.

[ Gentler now, though. He can understand that feeling, actually, waking up in the mornings and wondering what now because future just seems impossibly empty. ]

That depends, I think, on what matters to you.

What matters... it doesn't matter anymore. I won't be there to see it. So long as I fulfill my part... in my death...

[He doesn't know what to do. Not anymore.]

Is that really what you think?

I don't know what to think.

It's unpleasant to think about, but everyone dies sooner or later. Rather than focus on your death, it'd be preferable to use this additional time to do what you can, don't you think?

To do what? Whatever I do or learn here matters not, when I go back home.

Whatever actions you take here will have consequences while you're here - no, even after you're gone, they'll affect the people still here. This is true of your home as well.

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The people here... they act like they hate us. Even the ones who say they don't.

What about the people from your home?

I don't think they hate me. I think they... pity me. Which is much worse then hate.

Because of your fate?

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