1. Varania, are the tips of your fingers yellowed just like mother’s were, and why is it that discolored finger tips are the only thing I remember about our mother?
2. Elsa had been tranquil for seventeen years, five months, and twenty-three days on the morning Meredith called for her to say that she would be temporarily reassigned.
3. Mari Hawke saw herself through her damnable connection to the Fade.
4. “No, Merrill, I don’t understand, but Cullen clearly knows and he is not one of your people, so would the two of you please explain to me what it means to be a dominant elf?”
5. One day Cullen would look back at his years spent in Kirkwall with Mari Hawke and he would realize how sex had become a proxy for words he feared speaking.
6. It isn’t just the eagerness in the way that Hawke wrapped her lips around Cullen’s dick that revolted Fenris.
7. Kirkwall’s Knight Captain was the last person Aveline expected to find drunk and disorderly in the plaza outside the Blooming Rose just before sunrise.
8. I don’t think he believed me when I told him that I wasn’t a working girl but then Emeric said, “Doesn’t matter. You’re not my type, too young, but don’t worry. You have a very pretty face.”
9. The swell of him in his underclothes, the little circle of wetness on bleached white linen.
10. When pleasure is focused solely on his body, it is easiest to think of him as ‘the templar,’ as just another client.
11. Such a peaceful colony, all one hundred of them buzzing peacefully in unison despite their ability to transform into storm of hate and fire.
12. Without hesitation he recited, “My hearth is yours, my bread is yours, my life—” but once he realized which verse of the Chant he had blurted out, the final words stuck in the back of his throat, choking him until he finally coughed out, “Well, you, uh— you know the rest.”
13. A dam that had once stood between them burst and all of their prior secrets flooded out.
14. No matter how I answered, I have always liked to think that Hawke and I were friends.