Cullen's face twists a little at the memory of his last moments in the arena. Painful, and all the more so not because of his death per se, but because of what, exactly, caused it. The display of weakness, which - well, if Alistair saw it, presumably everyone did.

Not his finest moment, on the whole.

"As someone who's been through it, it doesn't get any less confusing," he says quietly after a moment. "There's something else you should know, as well. Those of us from Thedas - we're not all from the same version of Thedas. As insane as that sounds." In addition to all the other insane things about this situation. - he can't help but think it sort of figures Tabris wouldn't have even tried to explain this particular bit of it.