( Karlach, in the middle of stuffing her face, knows that 'mm'. Knows that Astarion wants power more than anything, power to keep himself safe. But that won't save him, Karlach thinks. Power hasn't saved anyone, it's just fucked them over.

She should know.

But she can't tell that to him without him bringing it up first. He likely knows where she stands with the whole thing, anyway. So onto other things. )

Yeah, but it's filled with people I like. Maybe we could fix it up? Give it a little homey touch or something to get it up to your taste.