[ There's only a very, very brief flicker of paranoia, of all of this has been to entrap me - It flies quickly away, and By sighs and reaches out to play with those fingers on his knee. ]

There are others. Even some seeming ne'er-do-wells who move in the same circles as me. That was how I was recruited originally, you know - I stumbled back from Antiva, and fell in with a bad crowd. Only one of them wasn't actually as bad as he seemed to be. And he saw that I wasn't, either, and so he started giving me little tasks here and there, until I was a spy in all but name.

[ His voice sounds amused, and a little proud, rather than betrayed. ]

There's a full network focusing on domestic affairs. Nothing like what Orlais has. Certainly nothing like what the Chantry has. But for something crafted largely just in the reign of Queen Anora, it's not too bad.