"That's the funny thing. Hawke never had a very large group. He just had the ability to be at the worst place at the worst possible time, every time. And since he happened to have rather polarizing friends, chaos followed in his wake."

Cullen shakes his head at her remark, feeling oddly comfortable with the fact that he's found someone he can talk to about relatively important things to him without alienating them. Or actually caring if he does. He has tried for years to keep his temper in check over the hardest years of his life with the Inquisition. Here, he doesn't have to do that.

"Bad history or not, there is no excuse for abusing others, especially if they are defenseless."