As easy as all that? He feels like he shouldn't trust that sentiment himself, like it was all too simple and Adalwolfe was opening himself up to pain even if Anders had no intention of trying to hurt him. But he did trust it, as silly as that was.

And as Hawke trusted him to share some part of himself, he supposed...he trusted Hawke as well. What could his memories offer that Hawke wouldn't already know? And if he got to see that handsome smile because this foolish man got his dumb mabari back, then Anders wasn't going to turn them around for unsound logic and unreasonable emotions.

"All right, then." He offered a charming smile and winked. "I'm always happy to take a walk with a handsome mage." And before they could get too far into that flirting hole they kept tripping in, "I suspect your beast will be a smaller version of himself, if any of the other dogs in this fleet are any measure."