Oh, I don't know. 'By the way, I rolled out of bed this morning feeling uncommonly generous and obnoxiously kind, and I'm probably going to get it all over you, incidentally' might work.

[ Anders shrugs, smiling thinly. It's a joke, but given his track record with those and Alistair, so far, he has reasons to be hesitant. ]

I'm not asking you to be someone else. That... wouldn't be fair. But if we're going to be getting lost in the Deep Roads together often, you can't take everything I say so personally. Or literally.