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He doesn't have to.

Jim's quiet a long moment. But this conversation has dredged up a lot already; his worst fear is Venatori with something like the protomolecule, and the night the undead attacked had made him think it realized. Talking about it so soon after discussing the dangers the Venatori pose, how eager they are to get their hands on people like the two of them, the things they could extract out of him —

he shakes his head, draining his glass.

"Trust me, you're happier not knowing." He glances towards the bottle, adding, "Besides, I'm out of time."

They've emptied it between the two of them, and he remembers the terms of Astarion's attention.

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“Two hundred years, and I’ve found that’s still the most untrue statement anyone’s ever bothered to utter.” Ignorance equates to bliss only until the hammer falls. Unrelated as this might be to Thedas, it isn’t unrelated to Holden: knowing what might have him freezing or wary is still its own advantage. A ward against disaster. “No one’s better off not knowing. Doesn’t matter what the subject is.”

The room's gone dark from waning daylight outside. Nighttime in Lowtown brings nothing good.

“But you’re right,” he says, leaning forward to set his glass along the table’s edge. “We had a deal.”

Until the wine’s gone. Astarion’s own rule.

“You’ll owe me the rest of that story.”