"Can't be worse than the ones in Orlais," Bull insisted as Dorian went to clean himself up. He sank back onto their bed, stretching his back out. He knew he should make some attempt to clean up as well, but the bed was comfortable, and Dorian would eventually come back and make it more so.

"They're meant to symbolize our service to the Qun," he said, loud enough that Dorian would hear him. He knew Dorian was curious - knew that he would have read all about it if there were books to be had. But Bull wasn't sure that there were, anywhere. "We're all bound together beneath it, no single part more important than the others. Only together does it all make sense. It also symbolizes the control that the Qun gives us over ourselves."