( he hears— the start of a word. there's no shortage of things she could be mad about. she'd made her distaste for celene clear long before she'd been anything but the spoiled vauquelin inheritrix,

but other conversations they've had linger. standing in the alienage the day herian had returned. and she starts again, plainer: )

My sisters were in Halamshiral.

She'll take credit now for the reforms, for putting the Marquise into her role, but she didn't put any force behind those reforms, and she wasn't going to raise Briala up on her own— we already saw exactly what the elves of Orlais are to her.