[ Anders shrugs, looking lost for a moment as he casts his gaze aimlessly around - the dark, crumbling stone tunnel providing no convenient point to latch onto. It seems as if he wants to say something, in that instant, before a thin, forced smile replaces whatever honest stir of emotion might have so briefly been glimpsed, there. ]

Well, fat lot of good any of that does us, down here, right? The darkspawn aren't so hot on politics. I think that's their one redeeming quality, personally.