No, she couldn’t. Particularly after Adamant. But even before, ignoring their wealth of knowledge would have been a blisteringly stupid move. No, she knows too well the sort of power knowledge can have, and given the range of what her advisors know... She’ll continue to spend all the time with them required of her.

Were Iona to learn that Cullen’s Inquisitor was bedding Cassandra she would burst into laughter and reassure him that no, she had never contemplated such a thing. No, her tastes seem to tend more towards the taller. And amber-eyed. With curly hair. “I suspect we don’t,” she tells him, amused. “There’s an entire world’s worth of difference between us, after all. Despite the similarities our worlds might share.”