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“He who is a friend must love; but he who loves is not therefore a friend. 
Friendship, consequently, always profits; love sometimes does harm.” 
[Qui amicus est amat, qui amat non utique amicus. Itaque, amicitia semper prodest: 
amor etiam aliquando nocet.]
Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales), XXXV. On the Friendship of Kindred Minds. [‘Give yourself to me, therefore, as a gift of great price.’]

Malia — I Put a Spell on You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1XAMklMVX4

Isabela: I can’t take credit for all of this, Hawke helped a little bit.

“It is boring forever to start a new life; they live ill who are always beginning to live.” 
[Molestum est, semper vitam inchoare male vivunt, qui semper vivere incipiunt.]
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, XXIII. On the True Joy which Comes from Philosophy.

“Look, she would then say, it’s there in your drawing and we can put it away.  
Now we have unremembered it and we can go back to sleep again.” 
Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe, Harper Perennial, 2006, p. 12.
 
Samantha has spoken of departure to Varric, the preposterous flatterer & liar. 
Isabela appreciates flair for loot & friendship: Samantha set self at high price.
The remedy not to fear anymore is either to submit or live by writing it down.
Samantha builds a new truth upon rumour that elf Fiona was Alistair’s mother.

Kedam — Shy Girl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HsDj8weiXE

“Periissem ni periissem” (idem poterunt dicere nunc at aves.)
[I would have perished had I not persisted; same as birds do.]
Northern Scot Anstruthers Motto (Crest supporters: two falcons).

Samantha needs an elf male begetter without lyrium to make twins.
Isabela to find one: the Crows guarantee silence even under torture.
Samantha wishes gentle man, mabari can team up with as per usual.
Samantha gallivanting around & Isabela ought to get templars raped.

“Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides, Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor!”
[Clytemnestra: We have lost all morals, justice, honour, piety and faith; 
and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. Fling loose...]
Seneca, Agamemnon, line 112 [Cassandra: Nay, drag me not!]

Isabela at Hanged Man: Sometimes you want to be where everybody knows your name.

Evanescence — Bring Me To Life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXi0VjNCOA

“Thus, where’er the drift of hazard Seems most unrestrained to flow,
Chance herself is reined and bitted, And the curb of law doth know.”
[Sic quae permissis fluitare videtur habenis Fors patitur frenos ipsaque lege meat.]
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book V, Poem I, l. 11-12; trans. H. R. James.

Told to forget Castillon, Isabela could make a great deal for her ship.
Isabela having Leliana come meet Samantha in Kirkwall, even better.
Female consolation aboard for memories of Alistair at the Pearl orgy.
Samantha to comfort Anora bears deceased Ferelden king’s children.