"You don't have to be a scholar, you're a healer. You've seen what comes after it," Nari says, her lips thinning at the idea. The sheer loss of life is awful, but it's the way human warfare happens that makes her really upset.
"It's mostly that the idea of making stationary siege engines makes my skin crawl sometimes." True enough, but not all of it. Really it's mostly knowing that even though Cade's a better archer than foot soldier, he's trained to be a front line combatant, and if the need gets dire—when it gets dire... but Cade isn't really a good Anders subject, so she tries to distract from the nervous tapping of her fingers on the mug by continuing on with the first idea.
"The fact that your cities can't move makes my skin crawl. How is everyone so fine with knowing that your enemies know where you are all the time? With being so concentrated in places?" Kirkwall can't scatter to avoid a blow any more than Minrathous could.
She imagines Anders won't know these things any more than she knows why everything ended up so wrong.
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"It's mostly that the idea of making stationary siege engines makes my skin crawl sometimes." True enough, but not all of it. Really it's mostly knowing that even though Cade's a better archer than foot soldier, he's trained to be a front line combatant, and if the need gets dire—when it gets dire... but Cade isn't really a good Anders subject, so she tries to distract from the nervous tapping of her fingers on the mug by continuing on with the first idea.
"The fact that your cities can't move makes my skin crawl. How is everyone so fine with knowing that your enemies know where you are all the time? With being so concentrated in places?" Kirkwall can't scatter to avoid a blow any more than Minrathous could.
She imagines Anders won't know these things any more than she knows why everything ended up so wrong.