[ Ungracious in quasi-victory as be certainly would have been in defeat, Kostos says, ] For a certain definition. Yes.
[ To the extent fairness exists in this world or any other. To the extent that the situation between them here isn't weighted on either end by hundreds of years of history that nothing done by or to or between the two of them alone could ever balance.
He is a Loyalist, really. Ask him. He's ready to explain it, to frame it, to characterize ten years of dogging Templars' every move as trying to make them do their damn jobs and keep their damn oaths before it came to this. Whether he was beaten then or not, Ayland is likely dead now.
Kostos unfolds his arm and moves for the door, but he pauses there to say—ridiculously, because even if he might be the sort of person (half-Antivan, after all) to hire assassins without guilt, he would never be foolish enough to send one after Inquisition personnel, but he's good at nothing if not being deadpan— ]
I will try to cancel my contract with the Crows.
[ Which is as close to I'll take you at your word as he'll probably ever be able to bring himself to say out loud. ]
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[ To the extent fairness exists in this world or any other. To the extent that the situation between them here isn't weighted on either end by hundreds of years of history that nothing done by or to or between the two of them alone could ever balance.
He is a Loyalist, really. Ask him. He's ready to explain it, to frame it, to characterize ten years of dogging Templars' every move as trying to make them do their damn jobs and keep their damn oaths before it came to this. Whether he was beaten then or not, Ayland is likely dead now.
Kostos unfolds his arm and moves for the door, but he pauses there to say—ridiculously, because even if he might be the sort of person (half-Antivan, after all) to hire assassins without guilt, he would never be foolish enough to send one after Inquisition personnel, but he's good at nothing if not being deadpan— ]
I will try to cancel my contract with the Crows.
[ Which is as close to I'll take you at your word as he'll probably ever be able to bring himself to say out loud. ]