And if those people are no longer there? What then? [He is so not going to admit it, but yes, their little group had started to feel that way by the end. More or less.]

I did. I do. There are certain complications with that at the moment, but it was a place I primarily lived the last time I was here.

[And for all that he'll grumble and complain about certain things in Kirkwall... he's noticing in ways that he'd somewhat missed other things about it.]