[For the first time since Varric'd started getting to be on the receiving end of Anders's healing, he's not sure it did any good, either. Not in the long run, anyway. But his head and throat ache a little less.

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. But it's the story he's sticking to.]

Don't think much of anything's going to make whatever this is go away completely, Blondie. But at least my head doesn't feel so much like an ogre sat on it anymore.