( halting: ) You tried to- to-

( meddle seems the best word, and generously benevolent in its assumptions of astarion's motivations.

and then he remembers how this whole thing started. )

Leave her be. ( not a command. ) She- ( an exhale. ) let her decide her approach. Always. Tell me you have not been needling her.

( but back to what's got astarion down. )

No. Do they have you playing at enslavement?