She chuckled. "Everyone says that. You'd be surprised at some of the things she'd say that were absolutely right. She was the one who saw Petrice for what she was only minutes after we'd spoken with her." In hindsight, she should have heeded her warning right then and there.

"And you have to stand in the courtyard that houses most of them." There was sympathy in her voice as she turned back to him. She knew very well how Bethany and Anders saw those statues and, indeed, it was a strong case to symbolize mage oppression. But he had said it before, how difficult it was to be a Templar in Kirkwall or anywhere else in Thedas. The statues only served to give the citizens a proper visual instead of believing the mages were out of sight and out of mind. "If I had been you, I might have had second thoughts just seeing them every day."