Stephanie was aware that Alistaire was trying quite hard to be a better person, and seemingly, was making some progress there. At least, he hadn't done anything evil in awhile, though his insistence in staying in the Hellfire game suggested that he clung to most of his old ambitions. And how will that work out in the long run? Stephanie sometimes wondered.

They didn't always get along, and they certainly didn't see eye to eye on everything, but he was also essentially the only family she had. That meant something.

But when she felt his presence in her mind, everything curdled as her mood turned black and angry.

I don't know how you did this, Alistaire, but get the fuck out of my head. Now.

It wasn't a request. It was a demand, and there would be hell to pay if he didn't immediately accede to it. If he was so tonedeaf as to how invasive it was to enter her head like that, especially considering all that had happened, then maybe she had to reconsider how important it was to her to have biological family, anyway.