' you only know what I want you too. '
█ ▌◆ —— THE CIVIL WARS LYRICS SENTENCE STARTERS
“As I am well aware.”
When had he become this person? People told tales of Tyrants, men who cared nothing of people they were sworn to protect. Old men who grabbed at power they did not deserve. Old men who found their way into the beds of younger women. Old men whom fathered bastards they knew nothing about, despite already having legitimate children.
How had Loghain started to emulate such tales? How had it come to this? He would have been happy to leave such things in Celia’s capable hands. He had no need for other lovers after her.
And it was not as though the Marsh Witch conjured particularly pleasant memories in him either. She reminded him far too much of another Marsh Witch he’d been at the mercy of, so long ago now. One who’d twisted words, did gruesome deeds and made dark prophecies that Loghain feared he had fulfilled all on his own.
All in all, not a night he wished to remember. To meet her again, it was not something he had expected... nor wanted.
“And I imagine you will keep your secrets too...” Flemeth certainly had, stealing Maric away into her Hut for so long Loghain had feared she’d eaten him.
“.. But I suppose it is for the best. There is little I can do for a child anyway. ”