"Yes, I wasn't around here then. I don't know what it might have been like for him. At least his family was also here in Kirkwall." He more than half suspected the mother of trying to help her son. Given Meredith's attitude toward those who aided apostates these days, he hadn't pushed that investigation hard. He wasn't of the belief people deserved to die for love or stupidity.

"I'm not sure he has the social wherewithal to know how embarrassed he should have been. So you were much better off not being of de Launce stock." It was kind of a silly sentiment. She wouldn't be there at all had Leandra Amell married someone else. "Not to mention I have a hard time imagining you with an Orlesian accent."