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Who: Cole to everyone
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Pathstone
When: Now

[Cole is actually looking at the camera, which is a minor miracle for those familiar with his habit of leaving his communicator next to him and pointing at the ceiling.]

How do mortals know what you're feeling? Varric used to tell me what it was, or Jove, or Solas, but they're gone and now I don't know what these feelings are. I can tell how to help other people and how to navigate their hurts but I can't do it with my own.

[He gives a small sigh and looks off somewhere. A fluff slug climbs over the communicator screen.]

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I see ... and would Justice need the same sort of context? Would he be able to transfer into something like his former self - or perhaps a copy of .. a person who passed on?

No!

Spirits shouldn't live in other people or things.

This body is mine. Justice would need to want to manifest, to have the strength to manifest himself here. Or try and let go back to the Fade.

All right, two questions that I must ask, so we can take the sting of blame away from you.

Since spirits cannot - or should not - live in other people or things, is there a Fade here? And does he have the strength to manifest?

I don't know. Salos says there isn't.

And I don't know if he does. I don't know how to tell if a spirit does.

Who is Salos?

[Another pause.]

Then there is literally nothing you can do to help him, Cole, and it is not your fault. You might want to educate those whom want to kill Justice why there might not be any other choices, that does not mean they should choose this one.

[Salos is Jemi's inability to type Solas after staying up until 1 am watching Snakes of a Plane.]

I told them. But... I don't know what they'll do yet.

[LOL I thought Solas's player had him going with his name backwards.]

Then you have to give them time to think about what they will do, Cole. It is too easy to despair when one does not have enough information.

[Nope, just Jemi's sleep deprivation.]

I don't like Despair.

[It sounds a lot like "Despair frightens me".]

Neither do I -- despite my affinity for it. One day, one step at a time, all right?

Compassion becomes Mercy, becomes Despair.

I don't want to be Despair.

I told you I would never let you become Despair, Cole, and I mean it. Can we save justice at all?

You did.

I don't know. I really don't. I don't know much about sprits in this world.

Well, before we lose hope, or whatever other spirits we might have - then let us see what we can do for Justice first.

Yes. I want to help Justice AND Anders.

Well I assumed we would be able to help them together without any issues.

They don't need the same things, I don't think.

All right, what things would they require?

Justice... needs justice. Without anger, without revenge, honour and valor and justice untainted.

Anders needs to be loved, safe, to see mages free and not terrified of templars.

They need to be apart. More than anything. But I can't help that.

I could be wrong. I need to be near them to be sure. Justice blurs Anders.

Is it possible to have that kind of justice? I have never seen that kind of miracle, to be honest.

[Tyrion rubbed his chin.] Then again, this place is made of miracles. Odd ones, but still. Miracles.

I don't know.

I don't really understand Justice. Just Compassion.

Well.

Then we will be walking in blind.

Not my first time.

Not blind.

We still have eyes.

All right, let us be more appropriate. I am blind.

... you've gone blind?!

What happened? How can I help?! Should I get Anders, we can try and heal it!

Cole -

No -

It is metaphorical.

Not literal.