Varric chuckles a little. "Of course I would, but what's the sense in not taking advantage of you already laying the foundations for me?"
It's part bravado, part not. Varric has done fine without Hawke, more or less, and it's not like he's miserable without him or anything, but, well. He misses him when he hasn't seen him in a while, is all.
Getting more sentimental and softer the older he gets, it seems.
His knee-jerk response to that is a deep, almost vicious good. His feelings about Blondie are complicated, mixed with a heavy dose of guilt both for introducing him to Hawke in the first place and for not being able to see just how bad his friend was getting, but the one thing he knows is just how much pain he caused.
He's glad Steven is nothing like Anders.
"I'll try to keep my interrogation to a minimum, then."
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It's part bravado, part not. Varric has done fine without Hawke, more or less, and it's not like he's miserable without him or anything, but, well. He misses him when he hasn't seen him in a while, is all.
Getting more sentimental and softer the older he gets, it seems.
His knee-jerk response to that is a deep, almost vicious good. His feelings about Blondie are complicated, mixed with a heavy dose of guilt both for introducing him to Hawke in the first place and for not being able to see just how bad his friend was getting, but the one thing he knows is just how much pain he caused.
He's glad Steven is nothing like Anders.
"I'll try to keep my interrogation to a minimum, then."