[Fenris listens. Even when Rafe turns away from him he waits patiently for him to finish. By the end of it he thinks he understands now, even if he still doesn't quite get the thinking behind Rafe's irritation. He already knew how Rafe felt about his subservience, how he views himself as a slave and nothing more, but this ran even deeper. Rafe wasn't like the magisters, or anyone he's ever worked with. He took his excessive help as an affront to his capabilities.]

I never thought you weren't capable. I could tell from the moment we met that you were. I was just trying to relieve you of as much burden as I could.

[He thinks how Hawke was one of the most capable people he's known, and that there was a time where he would still follow him with his sword at the ready to the ends of Thedas, and that's why he followed him. He wants to say as much.

But he doesn't.]

My main duty to my master was as his bodyguard. I never meant to imply you needed one. It is simply what I have to offer you.