“ he did deserve death, and you know it, @inbrunstig! ” it's not often she agrees with alistair anymore — their fighting took a turn for the worst a month or so ago, and the landsmeet effectively destroyed any affection they held delicately between their hands; but when he scoffed at riordan wanting to make loghain a grey warden, la'harya had with him. it's sascha she normally finds common ground with, it's sascha who she leans on in these times of disgrace, when her magic is so out of control and her rage unchecked and her heart desperate for something — anything other than the crippling ache that it beats with.
but sascha is wrong this time, and it's not just the red behind her eyes coloring her decisions. loghain deserved nothing, he was nothing, and if sascha couldn't see that, la'harya would make her see it. “ you think he would repent? you think there would be a sorrow in his mind eventually? he saw a justness in what he did at ostagar, and what he did afterward, there would be no regret! ” they're yelling back and forth, and she's sure that even with their group ahead of them, the dead in lothering could hear them. it steels her for this conversation. “ where do you think the money would come from to house him in that prison cell, to rot? where do you think the people of denerim would pull from? because i sure as shit know that it would be from the coin he pocketed from selling his elves! at least now that money can go back to the alienage. or do you think the poor souls stuck in tevinter would want their sale money going towards him still? ”
continued from here, using beta.
