“Rank those alliances,” she proposes, over her own plate, “most-to-least tenuous,” which is a joke but only inasmuch as the joke is that they'd probably do it, and if she weren't making a point of being light-hearted then it would be dangerously adjacent to losing their evening off with work. “We would have to consider where we wish to settle, of course, once we leave Kirkwall.”

Petrana takes as read that leaving Kirkwall would naturally follow.

“Presumably, in this pleasant thought-experiment, we have already addressed such matters as anchor-shards, and Riftwatch disbanded.”