Politics can be worse than all that, I've found. [ Not really, or... not exactly, but she sighs softly with a light laugh as their foreheads brush together. It's washing over her more and more as the moments pass and he doesn't vanish or turn into a monster that Cullen being here, really being here, is an enormous relief. Worries that knotted at her insides, ones she hadn't realized were there, come untied. Their relationship hadn't gone on for very long yet, but they'd spoken more than once about what might happen after Corypheus' defeat in terms of their future. ]

Am I to take from all this that things are fine with... us? [ Cecily ventures, still close, glancing up to meet his eyes. She can guess, based on how he's behaved thus far, but... better not to assume. ] Two years is a long time, and I remember how many of the court were flocking to you at our last visit to Orlais.

[ So long as he's happy, so long as everyone's safe... but, she can't even really tell herself in any honesty that being told that they were no longer together wouldn't sting somewhere deep and meaningful. ]