[ Is Iorveth's very simple, very unhealthy, very deranged correction to Astarion's very considerate remark about things that are better left forgotten. ]
I want to remember all of it. Every offense, every atrocity, so that I never forget how much they made us suffer.
[ Because everything that has ever meant anything to him has made him hurt; nothing is worth keeping if he can't fight tooth and nail for it. Iorveth splays his fingers against Astarion's back, touching as much of him as that one hand will allow. ]
...Besides. It wasn't you that reminded me of the dead. I'd only thought－
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[ Is Iorveth's very simple, very unhealthy, very deranged correction to Astarion's very considerate remark about things that are better left forgotten. ]
I want to remember all of it. Every offense, every atrocity, so that I never forget how much they made us suffer.
[ Because everything that has ever meant anything to him has made him hurt; nothing is worth keeping if he can't fight tooth and nail for it. Iorveth splays his fingers against Astarion's back, touching as much of him as that one hand will allow. ]
...Besides. It wasn't you that reminded me of the dead. I'd only thought－
[ A beat, as he slowly drums his fingers. ]
－I'd feared [ he corrects, ] that I'd lost you.