[ Alistair makes a vague sort of noise, because he doesn't disagree that it's hard—but only lately hard in the way Pel means. For most of the last decade it's mostly been hard to imagine Morrigan and her tentacled fire-breathing archdemon baby out there somewhere and to worry about what sort of villainy she might get up to with an old god soul and wonder if he did the right thing or if he was a coward— ]
She, [ he lies, and if it's a little awkward hopefully that's disguised by his overall awkwardness, but adding some sort of layer of deception seems like a good idea when Kieran is wandering around with his nose and a plausible timeline and Alistair doesn't want Morrigan to belatedly bite off his head, ] is with her mother, and she's safe. But she wouldn't be if anyone knew. I'm not being paranoid, I'm—real people I really know might kill her.
[ That's skipping a few steps. It's possible he is actually being paranoid. But keeping Kieran away from the Wardens would be that much more tricky if all these Wardens who are sort of his friends knew and started paying attention to him, and his oddities, and the timing of his birth, and the unsolved mystery of how Cousland walked away from the Archdemon. ]
Never. [One more squeeze, then she breaks away and smiles up at him. With his lineage, she can imagine reasons it's such a secret, but she won't ask or assume. Maybe it's something entirely different. He has his reasons, whatever they are.] Not even to the people who don't count as telling people.
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She, [ he lies, and if it's a little awkward hopefully that's disguised by his overall awkwardness, but adding some sort of layer of deception seems like a good idea when Kieran is wandering around with his nose and a plausible timeline and Alistair doesn't want Morrigan to belatedly bite off his head, ] is with her mother, and she's safe. But she wouldn't be if anyone knew. I'm not being paranoid, I'm—real people I really know might kill her.
[ That's skipping a few steps. It's possible he is actually being paranoid. But keeping Kieran away from the Wardens would be that much more tricky if all these Wardens who are sort of his friends knew and started paying attention to him, and his oddities, and the timing of his birth, and the unsolved mystery of how Cousland walked away from the Archdemon. ]
So don't say anything to anyone else. Please.
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