Aye, I suspect that's so. ( Register would not go down well. And yet, surely at some point they need to draw the line at how flexible they can be. What follows, though, is a long silence. )

How would— my reaching out for assistance strike the nerves of her need to step down?

( Slowly; cautiously, really, because while she is trying to parse this, it remains rather new territory. )

I did not join the strike, but that does not mean I did not think the destruction of phylacteries important. I— realise I am seen as a traitor by my fellow mages.

( Dishonourable, a hypocrit. She has to swallow. ) I did not strike because I felt that we needed to ensure that Thedas survives by continuing our duty, before seeing to the needs of mages alone. If she asks me why I am involved now, it is not because I favour rifters over mages, but because their discord threatens to undermine out ability to move forward and protect our world from Corypheus.