Larger than life, kind of. ( Cautious, that. Admiring and amazed and cautious. ) I mean-- it just sounds so wild that there's an entire city like that. Art isn't real. Art is a construction, even if it's a beautiful one. And there's... ( She pauses, licks her lips as she tries to work out how she wants to try and articulate it. ) There's ideas about art informing life and life informing art. It's... I mean it's kind of amazing that there's this city that's like art, right? I mean, I wonder.... I wonder how much Val Royeaux feeds off all these things you hear about Orlais, or if it's the other way around, or... something.

( Unseen as it is, she closes her eyes, and huffs out a quiet, ) Sorry. Off topic.

( Sounds like shut up Ruby, no one cares. )

True. But, I mean, if you wait for things to be safe then sometimes you don't get to do anything at all. Not that charging into a civil war is a good idea, just, you know. You can't put off living and stuff.

( #hypocrisy )