[ There's plenty of eye-rolling behind the scenes, and also a lot of '?????' but, also. A thoughtful pause, a moment of recollection, in more than one sense. ]

I don't know what Fereldans have to do with anything.

[ the pause here is deliberate, to set off that statement from the next one, divide the response to the first bit from the response to the second. ]

But you've a point. There are plenty of ways that people with power rob us of our lives, and they're all terrible.