Anders was taken by surprise when Altair began holding his hand with both of his own. Like he'd been so certain of rejection that he hadn't expected the opposite.
No shoving him away, no telling him to get lost and never come back, not even a disapproving cluck of the tongue. Just acceptance and even condoning what he'd done.
"Still, my actions sent Kirkwall into chaos, and not everyone thanked me for what I'd done. Most of the mages were more than glad to be out of there, even if it meant living on the run. They were just glad to be free. But others... they hated me. They didn't like that I'd made them fugitives. They thought that the Circle could be fixed, that mages and Templars just needed to compromise. They way they saw it, being fed and housed was worth being treated as sub-human."
Anders recalled that more than one mage at his own Circle had believed everything they were told. That they were living in sin by having magic, and that the only way to cleanse themselves was to die by the Templars' swords. When they didn't just take their own lives, anyway.
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No shoving him away, no telling him to get lost and never come back, not even a disapproving cluck of the tongue. Just acceptance and even condoning what he'd done.
"Still, my actions sent Kirkwall into chaos, and not everyone thanked me for what I'd done. Most of the mages were more than glad to be out of there, even if it meant living on the run. They were just glad to be free. But others... they hated me. They didn't like that I'd made them fugitives. They thought that the Circle could be fixed, that mages and Templars just needed to compromise. They way they saw it, being fed and housed was worth being treated as sub-human."
Anders recalled that more than one mage at his own Circle had believed everything they were told. That they were living in sin by having magic, and that the only way to cleanse themselves was to die by the Templars' swords. When they didn't just take their own lives, anyway.