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[dinadhal]

This, I have to decide. I like to go places. Do I like to stay in one place? I don't know.

So you would not, I think, go back to Orlais.

[murderbaby]

Orlais is a pit. Morally, as opposed to the literal, which I assume you are familiar.

[dinadhal]

Ah, but we have both. Tell me about this pit.

[murderbaby]

[Ugh-] What do you want to know? I only lived in Val Royeaux.

[dinadhal]

What you want to say--this, I would like. I have never seen Orlais.

[murderbaby]

It's very pretty, and nothing else.

[dinadhal]

[ A laugh, warm. ]

Pretty how?

[murderbaby]

Oh, gold statues, curved arches, bright colors, chandeliers. They keep the poor cordoned off carefully, so there's no need to worry you'll see anything unseemly. Or interesting.

[dinadhal]

Ah--Chantry beauty.

[murderbaby]

[A grim laugh.] Orlesian. We originated the style.

[dinadhal]

How good you have come away from it.

[murderbaby]

...Yes, rather. I'm aware of my own biases. I'm sure I'd feel differently if I still lived there.

How are the Anderfels?

[dinadhal]

Hmm.

Empty, most of them. Dust and mountains and wind, most of them. One river, it cuts through, and that is a good place, if you leave the cities alone. Those--ah! Hungry mouths and empty rooms for most, Chantry beauty for a few. The Anderfels, they're my home. But I pity the Wardens from far away.

[murderbaby]

Do you think you'll ever want to return?

[dinadhal]

That, I think, depends on Riftwatch. Do you recommend it?

[murderbaby]

I hold it in very high regard, yes. A valuable institution, if one wishes to belong to an institution.

[dinadhal]

What is it you like of it?

[murderbaby]

The quality of conversation.

[dinadhal]

[ With a laugh-- ]

Better, I think, than many places.