I see ... well. Shouldn't everyone have their own choice? Is that not the focus of the school itself? To form more schools of it's kind, like the colleges of old? Where mages can be properly educated in magic and how to handle the world - and if they want to go out, they go out, and if they want to remain at the schools to further their studies, they can do that?

But no more golden cages. [For any of them. Speaking of...]

I was thinking perhaps - since the schools are open to everyone - perhaps we might add on another program as well ... teaching Templars how to live without lyrium. And the choices that can be made available to them if they wish to leave the Order.

[Another, longer pause.] ... and for those who wish to join, how we should be new Templars for a new age. Become the protectors without the use of dangerous, personality altering drugs. Because yes, I have faith -- optimism is something of an illusion - but faith I always have.

I have to, or allow myself to be destroyed by despair.