Deductive reasoning had suggested Christine is the person he'd talked with her about before, but it's nice to have it confirmed. She nods with a rueful smile. "I'm glad. It sounds nice, you know. Being friends with an ex. Love that on paper. But if I manage it with Herian, it'll probably be the first time. I mean ... to be clear, not because I'm out here refusing to do it, but. OK do you want a kind of objectively ridiculous counterexample? It does involve weird clone shit."

There's so much of her pre-Thedas life that sounds normal and wholesome when she brings it up, but that's largely because she leaves out the year or so right before she arrived. The people who'd seen the Fade's imitation of her home world, or those with enough longevity to have met Sarah or Helena, could probably fill in some gaps, but it's not something Cosima raises routinely.

Then again, if anyone can handle weird clone shit, it's probably the sorcerer from a world where half the population vanished for five years.