Your doubt might be justified.

( A little wry, before she sips the tea. She could not say the same of his... motivations in offering aid. Monetary reward to do something that was right and necessary? That was not an easy concept, but she did not know the circumstances, could not imagine that Seoraj might have saved human nobility for their gold over poor elves unable to pay for the same rescue.

It has been a long time since they were well acquainted; perhaps she is too naive in her nostalgia and her fondness, but the thought does not occur to her now. )

I spoke more with elves than humans, after the Spire. There were a good many refugees I travelled with, but— in times such as these, it is not always easy to deduce what destination will make them safer than the places they would flee from. I would be tempted to damn Orlais to its nobility and its Dalish, but there are so many of its elves that love it fiercely.

( Worth saving for them, perhaps, if no one else. )

Have you been home recently, then? ( Her effort to be casual—

— she doesn't really make an effort to be casual, honestly. )