Please. Unless you and Julian are acting uncharacteristically, my vote was used well.

[His voice is extremely dry.]

This is the problem when popularity has as much weight as practicality. Some who are popular do not make for good representatives, some who are popular are very poor choices to listen to. Meredith was rather popular.

[Elthina too.]

And there is nothing that can overcome Kirkwall's penchant for upheaval. It is perhaps the only part of Kirkwall that is preditictable.