She rolls her eyes, though there's still not much heat behind the scorn she displays. "I wouldn't give weight to your pout. It's just I can't be bothered to listen to more of it, when I heard enough of it in the past months."

But she is a lot nicer to him already than she ever was to Alistair. Like it or not, her heart of ice may indeed be melting.

"I grew up in the Koncari Wilds, a cold expanse of forest and swamps teeming with dangerous animals... and worse things. If you are city-born, you will want to stay out of this forest. I heard it has its fair share of dangers, too, though I can't imagine it being anywhere near as dangerous as what I have known every day."