"Yes, I am as well." He's well aware how impolitic it is to say I miss him about a man who's been (as far as Vanya knows) actively aiding the Venatori longer than he'd been part of the Inquisition. Even so.
"Regardless. I suspect I would have left the Templars even without meeting him, sooner or later. By the war, I had doubts about the disconnect between the rhetoric and the actual actions I saw our leaders taking. But he likely sped things up. And then the new Exalted March was ... I was ready for a catalyst, I think, when it came." A short pause. "I wanted to believe it could be reformed, the Order. But I do not think the momentum is going that way, now."
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"Regardless. I suspect I would have left the Templars even without meeting him, sooner or later. By the war, I had doubts about the disconnect between the rhetoric and the actual actions I saw our leaders taking. But he likely sped things up. And then the new Exalted March was ... I was ready for a catalyst, I think, when it came." A short pause. "I wanted to believe it could be reformed, the Order. But I do not think the momentum is going that way, now."