[That's an Alistair Warden secret, he gets to have extra secrets. Unrelated to whatever the rest of the rabble have festering away in their internal Warden Blight Sacs of Wardenly Woe. Same as witches get to have secrets tucked in their impractical bodices.]
If only you had come to that idea sooner, say before the Winter Palace debacle, how simpler a night that might have been. [Instead of lugging some Orlesian lady through Red Templar gauntlets that ended with Alan trying to prise red lyrium out of his hand with his teeth.] One of your Wardens did tell me something useful, it's put a piece in place, and going back-- there are things I overlooked. That I might not have wished to see.
[Everyone's guilty of that, aren't they?]
I want him to be happy, Alistair, happier than I was. [Than you were, she's kind enough not to add though those early years can't have been spectacular for him.] To be safe. Once I know-- I believe I will be safer for the knowing.
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If only you had come to that idea sooner, say before the Winter Palace debacle, how simpler a night that might have been. [Instead of lugging some Orlesian lady through Red Templar gauntlets that ended with Alan trying to prise red lyrium out of his hand with his teeth.] One of your Wardens did tell me something useful, it's put a piece in place, and going back-- there are things I overlooked. That I might not have wished to see.
[Everyone's guilty of that, aren't they?]
I want him to be happy, Alistair, happier than I was. [Than you were, she's kind enough not to add though those early years can't have been spectacular for him.] To be safe. Once I know-- I believe I will be safer for the knowing.