( though it sounds strained and distant, there's a broken chuckle from anders' end. )

You must really think I'm not long for this world to make a request like... like that. And you'd be right. At least, it feels as much.

( dying in the same way twice, blind-sighted from behind. is this purgatory? is that all this place was ever meant to be for them? )

There's a lot of blood, Fenris. My healing— my magic. It's gone. ( there's a silence where he simply wheezes, then he remembers to continue. ) I have to wonder if I ever had it in the first place. If I could ever do any of those things I thought I could, if they were another memory.

...

I shouldn't have used your name.

I should have been better to you.