I'm not Garrett. [It's sharp, lacking her usual joking or sarcasm. She's a bit ticked right now.] He befriended who he did for his reasons, and I did for mine. You don't know me, you don't know my motivations, and you certainly don't know all my friends that well.

["They don't know me. I know me." Isabela had said that once. It was a simple statement, but it stuck with Hawke. Isabela had a few nuggets of wisdom in her, things Hawke took to heart over the years. She suspects if she told Cullen about any of them, he wouldn't believe her, or just assert Isabela heard it from somewhere else. What would a pirate know about such things anyway?

She sees his reaction, and she's not the least bit sorry. Hawke will let people talk a lot of shit about her. But her friends? Not so much. Not when those judgments are formed from surface observations and prejudice.]

I certainly didn't expect it from you. But it's almost like sometimes people surprise us and we don't know them as well as we think we did.