For those few minutes, the Bull figures that's it. He said his piece, Dorian heard him even if he doesn't look like he really believes it, and maybe that's it. So the Bull just sits there, feeling the healing magic inside his leg, looking away from it at the wisps, magic everywhere he looks - and that makes it kind of funny, when Dorian says he knows the Bull isn't 'comfortable' with it. If he cared about always being comfortable, avoiding magic altogether, hanging out with Dorian in the first place would have been a pretty dumb move.
But they're not talking about magic in general. That might be a good sign, that maybe Dorian's not as worried about whether the Bull's just uncomfortable around him altogether any more, that they're talking about this one kind of magic now instead. Doesn't necessarily mean anything, but maybe they're making progress.
Dalish never seemed to worry this much about this stuff. But then, it hasn't really come up. The mage thing is an open secret, yeah, but she doesn't wear it on her sleeve the same way Dorian does.
If it is a problem for her, she hasn't said anything about it. The Bull would have been able to tell, though. Wouldn't he? Weird thought, that one. He hasn't really wondered that before.
"You want it out in the open?" He shrugs. Maybe Dorian isn't really going to feel settled until he hears at least a little something negative. Hopefully he doesn't need the Bull to sound annoyed about it, though. If this is going to go the way the Bull wants it to, he's got to sound casual. Which isn't really hard. This is something he's got worked out with himself already and it works for him, even if Dorian hasn't quite caught up. "Sure. That stuff gives me the creeps. If you can put some 'spirit' into a dead body, if you can do all that once they're dead, how close is that to doing it while they're still alive? You or, you know, anyone else who can do any of that crap. That's what I think about when I see it. But like I said: I trust you. Say someone I'm fighting with likes to use a... I don't know, beehive on a stick to beat all his enemies. I'm going to feel a little weird about seeing it, but as long as the bees only go after the bad guys I'm going to rest easy.
"Besides, all the stuff we've gone through, even just in the past month - I get that I didn't give you as much reason as you gave me to think this way but in that uh, that temple, even just then, I got a lot of reasons to trust you. And a few more after that. A lot more of them today. I decide to throw all that away just because you can do something I don't like, I'm going to have to turn in my ben-hassrath card. You're a good guy, Dorian. You've given me too much evidence of that for me to just up and stop trusting you to make the tough calls about how to use what you can do.
"So yeah, I don't really love watching that stuff happen. But- so what? You keep using it to help people and you're good in my book. I don't know if that's the kind of open you wanted, but it's true. Can't speak for everyone, but if you're worried about what the others are going to say all I have to tell them is that you busted in like a hero and saved my ass. They don't have to know the real details."
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But they're not talking about magic in general. That might be a good sign, that maybe Dorian's not as worried about whether the Bull's just uncomfortable around him altogether any more, that they're talking about this one kind of magic now instead. Doesn't necessarily mean anything, but maybe they're making progress.
Dalish never seemed to worry this much about this stuff. But then, it hasn't really come up. The mage thing is an open secret, yeah, but she doesn't wear it on her sleeve the same way Dorian does.
If it is a problem for her, she hasn't said anything about it. The Bull would have been able to tell, though. Wouldn't he? Weird thought, that one. He hasn't really wondered that before.
"You want it out in the open?" He shrugs. Maybe Dorian isn't really going to feel settled until he hears at least a little something negative. Hopefully he doesn't need the Bull to sound annoyed about it, though. If this is going to go the way the Bull wants it to, he's got to sound casual. Which isn't really hard. This is something he's got worked out with himself already and it works for him, even if Dorian hasn't quite caught up. "Sure. That stuff gives me the creeps. If you can put some 'spirit' into a dead body, if you can do all that once they're dead, how close is that to doing it while they're still alive? You or, you know, anyone else who can do any of that crap. That's what I think about when I see it. But like I said: I trust you. Say someone I'm fighting with likes to use a... I don't know, beehive on a stick to beat all his enemies. I'm going to feel a little weird about seeing it, but as long as the bees only go after the bad guys I'm going to rest easy.
"Besides, all the stuff we've gone through, even just in the past month - I get that I didn't give you as much reason as you gave me to think this way but in that uh, that temple, even just then, I got a lot of reasons to trust you. And a few more after that. A lot more of them today. I decide to throw all that away just because you can do something I don't like, I'm going to have to turn in my ben-hassrath card. You're a good guy, Dorian. You've given me too much evidence of that for me to just up and stop trusting you to make the tough calls about how to use what you can do.
"So yeah, I don't really love watching that stuff happen. But- so what? You keep using it to help people and you're good in my book. I don't know if that's the kind of open you wanted, but it's true. Can't speak for everyone, but if you're worried about what the others are going to say all I have to tell them is that you busted in like a hero and saved my ass. They don't have to know the real details."