[As much as it hurts that Kas is gone, there's a part of her that's small but loudly insistent that this is the better outcome. No one has to get hurt trying to find a solution that might never have come, and all of them are spared the potential (or was it always probable) heartache in the end if nothing came of it, if they couldn't do anything about it.

Araceli can't let Korrin see that, she can't. As much as she cared for Kas, worried, will miss him, will sometimes turn and expect to see him there this was too dangerous but she can't trust that Korrin would understand her reasons.]

Kirkwall is larger than Skyhold and there are likely spies everywhere from every corner that we don't know of, any one of them could have gotten word that people knew the truth. Or the situation was too much of a risk when he was so well-known to people here. [She squeezes Korrin tight before pulling away to plate up the food, running her words through her head against her tone; it sounded like it did after Anders didn't it? Laying out a plan and measuring it, not letting her emotions come out? One of them has to be calm and considered, Korrin can be allowed to break down and fall apart--

(This is the time when certain lessons from childhood are terrible, you never know how to switch them off really.)]