[ What he's doing—what he's been doing since he was fourteen, when he sold himself to a bardmaster for the ability to sleep in a bed and read books, then spent years being strenuously and violently trained to walk and talk and dress and dance and eat and fuck and smile in a way Orlais' upper echelon would find acceptable and perhaps even charming—
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[ Both of which are better than Bastien, actually, but— ]
But, you know, fuck them.
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Bastien. You're right. Fuck them!
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Of course I am right.
[ What he's doing—what he's been doing since he was fourteen, when he sold himself to a bardmaster for the ability to sleep in a bed and read books, then spent years being strenuously and violently trained to walk and talk and dress and dance and eat and fuck and smile in a way Orlais' upper echelon would find acceptable and perhaps even charming—
It is not exactly fucking them.
But he aspires. ]