Easy for you to say. [Flippant, but a part of her is tired of having to be the one that keeps the pieces from flying apart. The one who shoulders the burdens, the one who has to be all right and be strong. She ended one civil conflict. Is she truly destined to have to stop another?] You don't know the court like I do. [It's not to the degree of danger that lurks in the Orlesian court and its Great Game, but it's still treacherous.] Plenty supported deposing Anora as she had no actual claim to the throne once Cailan died. And what lovely irony it would be if that was my fate.

[She smiles bitterly at the thought, but she made the decision to depose Anora. She put Alistair on the throne. The responsibility and fault is hers, and she'll accept it, however hard it will be to swallow.]