"Relax, I was just having fun with you," he says around a laugh. The tone of Nathaniel's reply makes him think his joking had been taken more seriously than intended. "I can't resist sometimes, you make it so easy."
There's more to Nathaniel than just being their resident cantankerous Howe, he knows, just as there's more to him (though how much they're willing to show has always been in question). The sum of Nathaniel's parts--both the ones he's aware of and the ones he isn't--amount to a companion he's trusted with his life more than once before.
In their line of work, having certainty that Nathaniel will fight with him to the last dead darkspawn or bandit or until they themselves fall needs no words. It's enough. And it's enough to consider him a friend after weeks getting to know the man and Warden.
"We talked some." An idle admittance. They'd all talked here and there, though some members of their party tolerated it with more ill humor than others. Nathaniel, for his part, had always seemed to get along the best with the Warden-Commander. "There wasn't much else to do while we were camped in the Deep Roads. Why, is there something you think I should know?"
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There's more to Nathaniel than just being their resident cantankerous Howe, he knows, just as there's more to him (though how much they're willing to show has always been in question). The sum of Nathaniel's parts--both the ones he's aware of and the ones he isn't--amount to a companion he's trusted with his life more than once before.
In their line of work, having certainty that Nathaniel will fight with him to the last dead darkspawn or bandit or until they themselves fall needs no words. It's enough. And it's enough to consider him a friend after weeks getting to know the man and Warden.
"We talked some." An idle admittance. They'd all talked here and there, though some members of their party tolerated it with more ill humor than others. Nathaniel, for his part, had always seemed to get along the best with the Warden-Commander. "There wasn't much else to do while we were camped in the Deep Roads. Why, is there something you think I should know?"