"No, I let him go." For all his anger and all the fire in his blood he had still loved Anders at the time and was unable to kill him or hurt him in any way. "I had a city in revolt to deal with. Bigger problems you know."
One day he would have to gather everyone at the tavern and share their life stories with each other. His would take a night to tell at least. And Sam's apparently spanned a few books. What a good time that would be.
"Beer! I know that word!" Yes, the rest of it made sense too but he liked to play up his poor backwards barbarian routine. Perhaps he shouldn't around Emma. She had always been kind and helpful. "I have had some wonderful sexcapades over the yeas. Athenril was very flexible."