[Cole could tell Sebastian that maybe it would be different. Solas is from a different timeline from him, after all, perhaps in Sebastian's world things will go differently.

But that would be a lie. He doesn't understand lies that help like truths let. He can hear the echos along the webs of pain that connect Sebastian's heart to Elthina's, even to Anders'.

It is already too late. It always has been.]

Ripples in a pond. Far enough away you never knew the stone was dropped until the waves are upon you. The words say to endure, did the hand that write them endure or were they words written to bring comfort when nothing else would?