[The topic drops as Astarion reappears in the distance, and it's only much, much later— when Dalyria has gone back into that dark, empty house and they've come back home, heading into Astarion's rooms for no other reason than privacy— that Fenris brings it up again.]

I see why you like them.

[A pause, and then:]

Well. I see why you like Dalyria. And I can understand the appeal of the others.

[Sort of. Another pause, and then, because he is a bluntly honest thing:]

Not Violet. She seems a vicious thing, and she reminds me too much of someone I once knew and loathed. But most of the others.