"Her mother?" Anders can't imagine what being unafraid of the Templar Order is like as a mage captured by the templars early, and for a few rare moments his feelings and his demeanor are perfectly in sync in their wistfulness. "I envy that."

But that's all Thedas politics. He's had his fill of it for one day and he shakes the blanket of longing off.

"It makes for interesting theatre," he says in an effort not to be sucked into heavier thought. "Then again, so does most of Wonderland."