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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.”