Ah, more that I was taking a small, well-earned sabbatical. [He had been running away, though toward what, he never was quite certain.]

As I said, I had never before been outside Antiva. I ended up taking a contract in Ferelden, and, failing in that, was taken in by the very woman I was hired to kill. Thus, in Ferelden I have remained, to fight by her side.

[Normally this is a story to be told with great romantic embellishment, but Zevran hurries past it.] And what of you, my friend? You have the worldliness of a traveler, if my impressions are not mistaken.