[If there could be anything more distressing than what she was currently feeling, it was the implication in Anders' voice. It wasn't that she was offended at the thought, but rather at how deeply she might have considered it in another world.]
[Once, she might have been selfish enough to have let him live. There wasn't a world in which she could imagine being without him. But this went beyond them. And if there was anything she cared for more than Anders, it was the mages that saw her as a hero.]
[The mages that would have to bear the consequences of what Anders had done. Without his punishment, they surely would suffer.]
[But this was, very clearly not Kirkwall, or even Thedas at all, it seemed. As her grief faded into a dull ache, and the shadows of memories settled into the back of her mind, Hawke could feel a strange hollowness in her very core.]
[The fade itself was gone.]
[She doubted that Anders hadn't noticed. She had half a mind to bring it up, anything to move away from her troubled thoughts. But Anders wouldn't be dissuaded so easily.]
I am afraid I didn't pack my guillotine on this impromptu journey. Perhaps another time.
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[Once, she might have been selfish enough to have let him live. There wasn't a world in which she could imagine being without him. But this went beyond them. And if there was anything she cared for more than Anders, it was the mages that saw her as a hero.]
[The mages that would have to bear the consequences of what Anders had done. Without his punishment, they surely would suffer.]
[But this was, very clearly not Kirkwall, or even Thedas at all, it seemed. As her grief faded into a dull ache, and the shadows of memories settled into the back of her mind, Hawke could feel a strange hollowness in her very core.]
[The fade itself was gone.]
[She doubted that Anders hadn't noticed. She had half a mind to bring it up, anything to move away from her troubled thoughts. But Anders wouldn't be dissuaded so easily.]
I am afraid I didn't pack my guillotine on this impromptu journey. Perhaps another time.