catch-all: the one where we handwave the opposite of anders introducing himself.

[purities]

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[spiritbalm]

If you don't care, then what's the purpose of the anger to begin with? Then it's purposeless. Destroying yourself for nothing.

[ nodding, quietly. ]

I had watched every other avenue fail, every other escape route burn. I started losing ... time. Days. The clinic had fallen apart, everyone was planning to leave Kirkwall - to give up on it. On us. Every mage in the Gallows Circle another sacrifice on the pyre of Andraste. It was the only thing that mattered anymore. Vengeance. Making them pay. Once I'd destroyed the Chantry, no one even argued to keep me alive. I wasn't anything but a deranged monster by then.

[purities]

For satisfaction.

[terrible reason, really.

but also, hm. mizu listens, staying quiet for a moment. thinking.]

Wanting to make them pay. Going through with it. Do you regret it?

[spiritbalm]

If you are nothing but a host for vengeance, will satisfaction mean anything at all?

[ i guess that's the eternal question. ]

No. [ he really, really doesn't. ] Do you?

[purities]

It means my job is done. That's all I need.

[and without missing a beat:]

No.