Whatever Nathaniel is doing, around the camp or in the guild house, consider it interrupted. Alistair comes to stand alongside him with his arms folded behind his back. He's not looking forward to this. Or he is looking forward to the beginning—the beginning that he's just made up right this moment, in the pause after that dash—but not the rest of it.
"—with Blackwall gone, we should talk," he says, "about your fraternization."
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Whatever Nathaniel is doing, around the camp or in the guild house, consider it interrupted. Alistair comes to stand alongside him with his arms folded behind his back. He's not looking forward to this. Or he is looking forward to the beginning—the beginning that he's just made up right this moment, in the pause after that dash—but not the rest of it.
"—with Blackwall gone, we should talk," he says, "about your fraternization."