She'd long ago discharged any need to keep him safe from Danarius, as far as Fenris is concerned. She'd done everything she could to help him from the start, even when he'd lied to her at the start of it all. Were it not for Hawke, Danarius would have captured him in Kirkwall, and freedom would have been just a dream, if he'd been allowed even that.

He frowns as she describes where she'd been and what had happened. He doesn't have any more suggestions than Hawke does to how it may have happened. He knows more about magic than he'd ever cared to, but there is no magic here, where even lyrium has no power.

"It sounds like magic," he says, but his tone is reluctant, aware as he is that there's been little evidence of magic at work in this place, and also of Hawke's comments when he'd wondered about magic in the ice cream.

"Did she make any sense of it?"