Gut instinct is hard even for John to explain. He has taught himself to reason beyond the initial instinct, but he trusts his assessment. Madi balances them.
"For the same reason everything was easier for us on Nascere, before."
Madi sees things John does not, things he cannot. Her voice carries a very different weight than John's.
If he takes a moment to consider what she will be like in Kirkwall, whether she will be as dismayed and irritated by the stinging cold and seemingly endless drag of wet chill in the spring, or what it will be like to hear her voice coming over the crystal unprompted—
"I know we've suffered a real loss," John tells her, though that doesn't manage to cover the totality of what they've left behind them. "But between the three of us, I think we can find a way to put it back together. And part of that comes from having your voice to support his when we have to sway the Division Heads."
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"For the same reason everything was easier for us on Nascere, before."
Madi sees things John does not, things he cannot. Her voice carries a very different weight than John's.
If he takes a moment to consider what she will be like in Kirkwall, whether she will be as dismayed and irritated by the stinging cold and seemingly endless drag of wet chill in the spring, or what it will be like to hear her voice coming over the crystal unprompted—
"I know we've suffered a real loss," John tells her, though that doesn't manage to cover the totality of what they've left behind them. "But between the three of us, I think we can find a way to put it back together. And part of that comes from having your voice to support his when we have to sway the Division Heads."