I think about anders and bethany a lot
Bethany: So, you were in the Circle and ran away. I don’t know if I’d be brave enough to do that.
Anders: You’ve been an apostate your whole life.
Bethany: Exactly. It was never anything I had to work for.
Bethany: Other people always took the risks, to keep me free.
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Anders: Where did you learn your magic? I mean, you know my feelings on the Circle, but usually it’s the only decent training a mage can get.
Bethany: My father taught me. He was in the Circle once, trained there. But he got away.
Anders: You don’t know how lucky you were, to have someone who loved you and could help you. Most mages would kill for that.
Bethany: You remind me of him.
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Anders: The Rite of Tranquility is the whole problem. If they didn’t have that to hold over us, we’d have so many more options.
Bethany: Right! If we want to fight back… or just engage in intelligent debate… they make sure we can’t do it.
Anders: They’re forcing our hands. There’s no way to change things peacefully.
Bethany: There must be something.
Anders: If it’s Tranquility or death, we have no choice but to make every confrontation a life-or-death struggle.
Bethany: I know, but… there are good people in the Circle, the Chantry. There has to be a way to reason with them.
Anders: Not if they take away your ability to reason.
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Bethany: I know it didn’t work the way you wanted, but… it was brave, what you did with Justice.
Anders: It was meant well. I don’t know if that’s enough to forgive me.
Bethany: It must have been hard for him, being trapped outside the Fade. In a place where no one’s like him. I bet he appreciated having a friend.
Anders: He did.
