"Yes." Simple and direct, after how many pauses it took to get him there. "No one asked too many questions about why I turned up to Skyhold with an apostate; they were all too happy to welcome two more pairs of competent hands. But as time drew out, things." A full stop and a longer pause.

"Have you heard about the negotiations that surrounded a cache of recovered phylacteries? It was before Riftwatch broke off, so some of the longer-tenured Riftwatch members were directly involved, and others I assume remember it firsthand. The Inquisition's mages organized a strike when the organization wouldn't hand over the phylacteries to the mages they affected after securing them."