[Hawke grips his arm a little tighter before she even realizes her body has been subjected to an unconscious reflex.

We're alive. It's funny how words can mean nothing and then suddenly mean everything only a few days later. Not funny haha, but funny in how Hawke's life tended to be "funny". Perhaps, it was fitting in that sense.]

Definitely. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but someone has to drop this important truth. You're really not fun when you're grumpy.

[See, this is your problem. Not hers.]