[ It is easier this way. Harder, too, not to be able to watch him as he speaks and see all the things he isn't saying. But she has never been as good at reading him as other men, no matter how hard she tries. Maybe the trick is to stop trying, and just listen. ]

You can use all of that, here. All your skills--fighting, thieving, tale-telling, charming people out of their own skins--the Inquisition needs that. There's work here that would suit you, and if you don't like earning a wage, don't think of it that way. [ She can't help herself, already flipping back from telling him to go to trying to persuade him to want to stay. ] Do you think there won't be songs and stories about the people who stopped Corypheus and the end of the world? Earn your place in them.

[ It still wouldn't be what she wants, not really; it's still a selfish reason. But if there's any hope of bringing him around and making him see, he has to stay. Any reason to buy in is better than none. ]