"Kitty will not suffer anything worse than the Vint currently in the dungeons, if she is punished," he says. "That is the precedent being set."

Not just because it says something about Rifters. He looks past her, to the closed door, warded with a form of craft alien to Thedas.

"Without Skyhold, we have no oversight. The last time a Division Head did something similar, Skyhold stepped in. Furthermore, any punishment of Commander Flint would risk splintering within Riftwatch. Why he ever-"

'didn't think through the consequences of his actions' is probably the rest of that sentence, but. Instead, Thranduil inhales, exhales.

"What else did you come to say?"