I heard. About Kirkwall. It was inevitable, with that systemic abuse, that they would break everything. But he killed innocents. No abuse - No abuse justifies that.

[There was a hitch to her voice. No abuse justified it, and she knew that. She knew that all too well.]

[She doesn't reply immediately, weighing her words before responding to his - an effort she certainly didn't give Anders the night before.]

I don't regret him. [She decided, firmly.] I regret breaking my own oath, and I regret - upsetting you. And I regret losing control. But I am not so certain the advisers all completely agreed with the Wardens, so much as had no choice. They have precedents, to take criminals.

[Her voice is stiff, and she will not waiver. He is no innocent, and remembering how victimized he had made himself sound made anger flash in the back of her mind, but -

instead, she sighed.]

I will not approach him again. That, I will swear to you.