If not - If not for me - [ Cecily has to catch her breath as he lets up, curling a bit beneath him, giving him a scathing look from where she lies ] Then you might be out on the battlements! What if Varric had found you? Or Sera?

[ HE WOULD BE WORSE OFF that's what ]

You are supremely ungrateful. [ OH NO but she's grinning again, expression softening, warming. She reaches up to pluck at his chin, thumb ghosting across the stubble there. ]