"It isn't your doing," Cyril responded, and he hid every bit of pain from showing in either his voice or his face. "It's still this way," he explained after a moment, and started to direct Dorian again.

He walked a little bit faster, as if wishing to be escape from the suffocating pain in his chest.

"You'll find many oddities here," he said now, completely changing the subject, ignoring the emotional outburst. "Their technological level is much higher than Thedas's. There is a library with books to explain how all of the devices work, but it has to do with the ability to harness electricity and channel it through wires and circuits."