Astarion lifts his own glass in salute. "And now you do all three. See how you've grown as a person? You're welcome."

This time the humorous note feels a little more genuine, but it's coming from a place of shared anger. For all that she pushes to do the right thing, the noble thing, she understands deep down that the world isn't noble. That people with power will do whatever the hell they want, whatever benefits them most, and to the Hells with everyone else.

It didn't even take her two hundred years to learn that lesson. Truly, a clever witch indeed.