"Ah, but you are blameless? All your sins and faults laid at the feet of the Dread Wolf. Of course."
But it is a fair question, and one with an obvious answer: could she ever have trusted him not to seek to bring down the veil? To follow his own idea of what was good and right, and which would save the most lives, and put the broken world to rights?
Of course not. No more than she ever would; in this much they were alike.
But he could have lied to her less blatantly. Built trust, pretended to have a change of heart, become like a friend, a confidant, perhaps even a mentor. And she, young and entrusted with responsibility out of all consideration for experience, might even have accepted it. Rather than a deception between two enemies, would that more honest betrayal have been the more acceptable pain? Somehow, he thinks it would not have much lessened her sense of righteous fury.
"No," He says, eventually, calmer now with the rush gone out of his breath. Solas straightens and regards her soberly "We will both do as we see fit. You will never try to see the world as I do. I will not be able to stop trying to save it, while I can. Our conflict is deeper than any personal grudge."
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But it is a fair question, and one with an obvious answer: could she ever have trusted him not to seek to bring down the veil? To follow his own idea of what was good and right, and which would save the most lives, and put the broken world to rights?
Of course not. No more than she ever would; in this much they were alike.
But he could have lied to her less blatantly. Built trust, pretended to have a change of heart, become like a friend, a confidant, perhaps even a mentor. And she, young and entrusted with responsibility out of all consideration for experience, might even have accepted it. Rather than a deception between two enemies, would that more honest betrayal have been the more acceptable pain? Somehow, he thinks it would not have much lessened her sense of righteous fury.
"No," He says, eventually, calmer now with the rush gone out of his breath. Solas straightens and regards her soberly "We will both do as we see fit. You will never try to see the world as I do. I will not be able to stop trying to save it, while I can. Our conflict is deeper than any personal grudge."