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Cullen knows it needs to be addressed at some point. The Herald is short with him, near scared of him, and whilst he hardly blames the mage for it he still worries that it may lead to mistakes. Unintentional ones, perhaps, but it seems Thilfonir can barely stay in the same room as him for more than a handful of minutes and he'd rather avoid any miscommunications where possible, especially with so much at stake.
He still drags his feet about it. It's not a conversation he particularly wants to have either, and the how of it all gives him pause to. Simply cornering the elf will hardly help anything, and he can't linger past meetings because Thilfonir seems to take his leave strategically with either Joesphine or Leliana.
His chance comes unexpectedly with a war table meeting that Leliana had no intention of attending and Josephine had to excuse herself from. Without the buffer of others their exchanges are even more stilted, and eventually Cullen tires of it enough to stray from the discussion of his soldiers requisition requirements.
"I'm no longer with the Order," he informs him. "I'm not certain just what it is you think I'm going to do to you, but whatever it is it's highly unlikely."