"Yes," is her immediate reply. And thenโ"No." And furtherโ"Well, there is one possible exception that I know of. But it very well may have been a dream. There is, or rather there was"โBeth is still at this point with their company, and this acts as a clumsy way to obscure her identityโ"Someone who believe that she, I mean they had died right before their arrival. But even if that is so, I suspect that their consciousness must have passed into the Fade in some moment of unconsciousness between the waking and death. Given all else, it seems highly unlikely that the spiritโif we are calling it such a thing, with the full understanding that I don't mean a spirit in the way someone here in Thedas mightโmay have done so on its own."
A pause. She takes a short breath, then reaffirms quite confidently:
no subject
A pause. She takes a short breath, then reaffirms quite confidently:
"Yes, we all arrive from out of a dream."