This is a position I know well, Araceli. [Sina doesn't elaborate, but her tone is beginning to grow slightly harder. Being Dalish in a human civilization is nothing but distrust.]
I am in charge of the herb gardens. This one wasn't growing, so I made it grow. It was sick. I healed it. It will always provide for the people of Kirkwall. It is a gift.
[She's beginning to sound tired, her voice shaking now with the twin effort to not lose her temper.]
What will people think? Those who see it as an act of aggression rather than the goodwill it was are fools and looking for reasons to continue hating us, killing us. I have to live among them, I've given them the best I could, is there nothing I can do that will prove I am only here to get better and not to --eat any babies? It's what I would have done for my own people. I have done it for my own people, alongside my Keeper.
[She pauses to take a breath, and pointedly doesn't address Araceli's last question. She thought about it, of course. She never stops thinking about it.]
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I am in charge of the herb gardens. This one wasn't growing, so I made it grow. It was sick. I healed it. It will always provide for the people of Kirkwall. It is a gift.
[She's beginning to sound tired, her voice shaking now with the twin effort to not lose her temper.]
What will people think? Those who see it as an act of aggression rather than the goodwill it was are fools and looking for reasons to continue hating us, killing us. I have to live among them, I've given them the best I could, is there nothing I can do that will prove I am only here to get better and not to --eat any babies? It's what I would have done for my own people. I have done it for my own people, alongside my Keeper.
[She pauses to take a breath, and pointedly doesn't address Araceli's last question. She thought about it, of course. She never stops thinking about it.]