They stood around the pile of tinder that had once been a chest. Hawke still held his sword in his hand glowering down on the flinders with an expression that said, And stay dead!
"I told you we didn't need Isabela," he told Fenris, Anders, and Aveline. With an unspoken subtitling of, Run off with the book and leave me to face the Arishok alone? To the Void with you and your bosom!
Anders knelt and sifted through the remains, finally holding up two twisted pieces of metal that had probably been the key to the lost temple's inner sanctum that they were looking for.
Hawke looked at it. "Can we fix it?"
Anders raised an eyebrow.
"Fine," the warrior huffed. "We'll go back and get Varric."
So much for their first post-Arishok outing without their best picklock.