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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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So the Blackwall in the Inquisition isn't actually Gordon Blackwall but a non-Warden named Thomas who just wanted to be a Warden?

[He doesn't laugh, but there's definitely an incredulous bent to his voice.]

Sounds like the Inquisitor knows how to make the same sorts of friends I do.

Blackwall died before Thomas could be Initiated. They stopped to kill some Darkspawn, to collect what was needed, but Blackwall died instead and Thomas was scared that no one would believe he had been accepted.

Makes sense, but with all the problems with Corypheus' fake calling, I'm honestly surprised no one really noticed before Adamant, and then after I guess no one would unless they were a fellow Warden. Apparently they can feel each other, something about the taint.

[He sobers a bit, glad that Cole's powers of extreme, brain-scrubbing observation don't extend over video. The taint is probably his least favorite subject considering that it will send Anders to the Deep Roads in roughly twenty years...

He locks that thought away, shoving it back into the far recesses of his mind, as he always does. They'll stay in the fleet, the taint doesn't progress here, it will be fine.]

I guess I can see why he would do that, if he was afraid. People do a lot of things out of fear.

The Wardens closed ranks.

If they had talked about it, it wouldn't have ended how it did, according to lots of people.

I don't know if that's true. I just know they hurt themselves and lots of others.

I think it's true. There's something about people not bouncing their plans off of others first that makes them do stupid things. Like turn to blood magic.

[He sighs.]

Clarel made the right decision in the end, but she was too late to save quite a lot of people who needn't have died. People always have this urge to close ranks when something terrible happens, but that's when communication is most important. You never know who might have an alternative you haven't thought of for being too close to the problem.

She did. But the other wardens had to live with what they did.

[And that was sometimes the hardest thing. Living with the consequences.]

Better to live with it and atone for it than die and have no chance to set things right.

[Hard or not, it's always the better option for anyone who's not just intent on being terrible in the first place. As little as Adalwolfe knew of Clarel, he didn't think she was a bad person at heart, just a frightened one with a slew of people looking to her for answers she didn't have. She made the wrong call, but it could happen to anyone. And it did. So many of the Wardens fell to blood magic to try and save themselves. It was horrific and could have been prevented, but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand.]

Yes. That's better. That's why the Templar had to do. Live with the memory, like I do. Make sure it never happens again.

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