I'm not cruel.

[His voice is quiet. There's a long pause in which he debates saying more or not. He doesn't owe her anything. She only told him this because it cost her nothing and could potentially help her in keeping order her.

Finally he decides that speaking also won't cost him. It likely won't gain him anything either, but at least she talks and halfway listens.]

I've no desire to gloat by thanking them. And it's not like the Seekers are truly taking responsibility here. They're washing their hands of him despite how he's a product of the system they enforced. Cade is Kirkwall. He is how Meredith and Cullen shaped him, he is what many Templars were taught to be, abusive without a second thought, blind to the personhood of mages.

They're not doing nothing, which does help with the fear many mages carry. But they're not doing something that will actually change matters. No. I'll not be calling them.

And you'll not be either.

[It's not exactly a question, but it is an opening. He can hear that she's not happy and he's curious about the source of it.]