His sudden melancholy does not pass her by, not when they stand so near to one another. She regards him curiously, her attention pulled from the snowy landscape of Haven, and squeezes his hand where it rests in hers.

She should encourage him, speak to how all beauty fades in time, but Solas knows that lesson as well as she does. Instead, she simply smiles at him.

"Thank you for showing me this place," she says, "I am glad to have seen what it was ere I came to Thedas."

But this has taken her curiosity in another direction and she cannot quite stop herself as she asks:

"How did you come to join them?"