All I want is to be free of this place. The same as anyone else here.
[ It isn't a complete lie. Were he to wake back in his own world tomorrow, free of this alien city and its machinations, he would be glad for it. He'd strive, even, for that outcome, were it possible to do so. But it also doesn't answer her question, not really, and Astarion knows it.
Because if a path to that kind of power were to become clear—the power to control an entire realm, to bend reality to his will, to keep himself safe from Cazador and anyone else, forever?
There's not a lot he wouldn't do for that kind of power. ]
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[ It isn't a complete lie. Were he to wake back in his own world tomorrow, free of this alien city and its machinations, he would be glad for it. He'd strive, even, for that outcome, were it possible to do so. But it also doesn't answer her question, not really, and Astarion knows it.
Because if a path to that kind of power were to become clear—the power to control an entire realm, to bend reality to his will, to keep himself safe from Cazador and anyone else, forever?
There's not a lot he wouldn't do for that kind of power. ]